A warm welcome to author M.J O’Shea joining us here today to talk about her newest release together with Piper Vaughn, “Moonstruck”.
5 things to know about MJ and Piper (writing together)
So… I’m going to give away all our secrets. They’re not actually very secret. It’s been a while since Piper and I wrote a book together but we always had a certain way about itJ Definitely hard to forget.
- There was always wine…or at the very least coffee. But usually wine (I’m a big fan of moscato). Quite often we would each get a glass and hammer out the plot of our newest book. This process could take a while but it was usually a lot of fun. One night we sat at my dining room table and wrote out a plot by hand in our notebooks. There wasn’t wine that night. But there were burritos.
- There was also lots of youtube. Piper and I share many favorite bands and songs. Sometimes an hour would go by with us passing songs back and forth to listen to until we both settled down and got working again.
- We definitely had our favorite characters. We both love Nick <3 In some books it was easy to divide the writing by character because one fit Piper so well and maybe another fit me. Some of them we both loved so much that we wanted an equal share writing them. I think you can guess who that is 😉
- We divided things up differently every time. Sometimes I wrote one character and Piper wrote another, sometimes we switched off by chapter, it all depended on the book and how we wanted things to go!
- Frequently we look back and can’t remember who wrote what part of certain books… both of us figure it’s a good thing that our styles mesh pretty well <3
That’s just a little insight into how Piper and I worked … or sometimes didn’t do a lot of workJ I hope you enjoy the fruits of our labor.
XOXO
MJ O’Shea
Moonstruck is the last of the Lucky Moon books about two bands from opposite sides of the pond who blend together professionally and in love (and lots of bumps in the road along the way of course). You can read more about it at Dreamspinner Press!
About MJ And Piper
M.j. O’Shea has never met a music festival, paintbrush, or flower crown she can stay away from. She loves rainstorms
and a perfect cup of tea, beach days, music, bright colors, and more than anything a cozy evening with a really great book.
She is from the Pacific Northwest. While she still lives there and loves it, M.j. has the heart of a wanderer. So she puts all her dreams of far off places and extraordinary people in her books.
Except for every once in a while when she does what all travelers have to do on occasion… come home.
Piper Vaughn wrote her first love story at eleven and never looked back. Since then, she’s known that writing in some form was exactly what she wanted to do. A reader at the core, Piper loves nothing more than getting lost in a great book—fantasy, young adult, romance, she loves them all (and has a two-thousand-book library to prove it!). She grew up in Chicago, in an ethnically diverse neighborhood, and loves to put faces and characters of every ethnicity in her stories, so her fictional worlds are as colorful as the real one. Above all, she believes that everyone needs a little true love in their life…even if it’s only in a book.
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