Meet my lovely guest today, a debut author from Johannesburg, Bailie Hantam
Tell
us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I'm from
Johannesburg, South Africa. I've been married 15 years (March 20th) and have a twenty-year-old daughter. Breaking Her Defenses
is my debut novel.
What
is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Breaking Her Defenses is about a
woman with a whole lot of baggage who makes her way to Johannesburg and finds
love and happiness. Inspired by real life, I suppose. I am from Cape Town, and
I found the love of my life in Johannesburg.
Why
did you choose to write in your particular field or genre?
I love happily
ever afters. Stories about love
conquering all. And families. I've always been drawn to these elements and I couldn't see myself writing any other
way.
What
kind of research did you do, and how long did you spend researching before beginning
this book?
I had to do
some rudimentary research with the Department of Social Welfare. There's not
much information available - in part because they're dealing with minors. So
for a lot of it I had to use some poetic
license.
How
do you select the names of your characters?
The actually
come to me only when a character pops onto a page. I wrote the entire first
draft using the phrase - her brother - because his name would only come when he came into a scene, and he
only appears in the last scene. It means having to go back a lot and insert
names.
How
do you like to collect and organise your ideas?
HAHAHAHAHA - I
have a note. On my bedside table. And my desk. And my bookshelf. And my
handbag. Once a month I try and organise them. Remembering what I was thinking
when I wrote some like "His *bleep* was insignificant" is another
challenge.
How
long did it take you to write this book?
Three months
What's
next for you as a writer?
Book 2 in the
Series. Wyatt and Mini's Story
Author
Bio *
Bailie Hantam
lives in Johannesburg, South Africa. She's been writing stories her whole life.
Her love for the romance genre started back in her teen years, when she devoured everything ending with a Happily Ever
After. She put off writing for nearly two decades while she concentrated on
raising her daughter and helping with her husband's business. Now, with an
empty nest, and a little more free time, she is finally writing and giving
those characters in her head their own Happily Ever After.
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