![]() Natalie and August also appeared in “Secretly Yours,” although the main romance involved her buttoned-up brother and a freewheeling gardener. I had to make a decision whether I was going to write what I like or what wouldn’t offend the people in my real life. That will be a watered-down version of what you actually want to read and what actually turns you on. ![]() 1 piece of advice for new writers is, don’t write as if your mom is going to read it. I’m very proud of it! When I first started writing romances, I thought, “Oh, gosh, can I write this? My mother might read it!” My no. Entertainment Weekly called you “the Michelangelo of dirty talk.” Are you OK with that term? Speaking of sex, traditional romances don’t have as much of it as your novels do. Will she commit to August and his fledgling Napa vineyard or go back to the soulless city? Bailey discussed her characters and her craft in a recent Zoom conversation.īy clicking Sign up, you agree to our privacy policy. Small town-big city contrasts are spotlighted in “Unfortunately Yours.” Heroine Natalie, back in her Napa hometown after a humiliating failure in New York City’s high-pressure financial industry, finds herself falling in love with August, the man she married to get her hands on the inheritance she needs to fund a new business. Our daughter is really thriving here we love Long Island.” “I’ve started writing more small-town romances now that I understand the mechanics and the politics. I’m from San Diego, my husband and I are city people, and that’s what I was used to,” she says. “When I started, all my books were city-based. Nonetheless, says the veteran author, her move to Floral Park from Brooklyn almost a decade ago, has had an ongoing impact on her work. ![]() ![]() “Unfortunately Yours” (Avon, $18.99), the latest of Tessa Bailey’s more than three dozen romance novels, takes place in a small winemaking community in California's Napa Valley - about as far from Long Island as you can get within the continental United States. ![]()
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