Last night I climbed 16 flights of stairs. It is for us to talk and pass away the hours of boredom while we are in our classes after the teacher has stopped speaking. “I am constantly having ideas from literally everywhere all of the time.This is the first page of what I'm sure will be a very long "note". “I just laugh like a maniac because, no, that’s never ever going to be a problem,” she said. She said she is often asked if she’s afraid of running out of ideas. That’s one of the reasons I love romance as a genre because it is an entire genre that is devoted to hope and happy endings.”
“So much of the world is a dumpster fire, and it’s the thing that I want to give to my readers in the stories.
“I think my favorite part about writing is also the same thing that I love about reading, it’s escape,” she said. Ultimately, writing is a means of escape for Nolan. “My first book signing ever is actually going to be in Melbourne, Australia of all places,” she added with a laugh. Nolan is also going to be part of an Romance Author and Reader Events international book signing event in the spring. I thought they were crazy, but I said ‘OK.’” I had a buddy who said I should enter, and that I stood a good chance.
“My RITA Award, it was a fluke,” she said. Nolan was the 2018 RITA Award recipient for the Contemporary Romance: Short category for her book, “Second Chance Summer.” The RITA Award, now retired, was the highest award offered by the Romance Writers of America. That’s not to say we don’t have problems, we do, but everybody else does too, and so I kind of started this series because I wanted to show the good side of Mississippi to the people who have never seen it before.” All they know, if they’ve never been here, is the stuff that’s perpetuated on the news. “I have, over my lifetime, been confronted with a lot of prejudice being from Mississippi,” Nolan said. She added it was an effort to address preconceived notions that non-Mississippians have about the state. She sets most of her stories in Mississippi, but some branch into surrounding southern states. I decided, as a palate cleanser, it would be fun to retell the story of ‘White Christmas’ against a stage production of ‘White Christmas.’ That story became ‘Be Careful, It’s My Heart,’ which was the first written book in my ‘Wishful’ series.” “I love ‘White Christmas’ with Bing Crosby, it’s my favorite Christmas movie and I watch it every year. “I ended up switching to contemporary because I was extremely burned out,” she said. While that series never saw an official end, Nolan is now working on the final book of her seventh series, having published more than 50 books under the umbrella of contemporary romance. “So, this series that I had started was never going to be finished and I felt really bad having to tell that to readers, so I took them down.” “When I left that track, I ended up changing genres to contemporary romance,” she said. It got some attention at the time and landed me an agent.”Īfter a couple of years, Nolan decided pitching New York wasn’t for her. I decided I was going to write some novellas just to start building an audience for the series I was pitching to New York. I started in the very early days of self publishing and I was writing paranormal romance at the time. “My very first book is no longer in print deliberately. Her first book was published in 2010 when she started a series to gain followers, and it marked the beginning of a series that she would never finish. After 15 years, she decided to hang it up entirely in favor of pursuing her true passion full time. She was a research psychologist and instructor for MSU. “So, I stopped with my terminal masters and started treating (writing) as a job on top of all of the other actual jobs.” I decided I did not want to spend another six years on a track that was not going to make me happy,” she said. program, but I knew it was not going to make me happy. “I was finishing up my master’s degree and getting ready to go into a Ph.D. Nolan, a native of Tupelo, received her undergraduate degree from the University of Mississippi, and then she set off for Starkville to pursue advanced degrees at Mississippi State University.
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