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Happy New Year, my lovelies! I hope you had a lovely holiday season. We’re kicking off the new year with debut author, Moni Boyce. I’ve known Moni for about five years, and I was so thrilled when she told me she was publishing her first novel, .

Before we learn all about Gemma and Alex, let’s get to know Moni!

How long have you been writing?

I have been writing since elementary school. Usually, it was short stories. I started writing poetry once I got to middle school and in high school I was published in some poetry anthologies. Once I got to college, I didn’t write as much and that period lasted for a long time. Shortly after I was divorced some friends encouraged me to pick back up writing. It was very cathartic. I started writing poetry again and then found fan fiction and started writing Scandal fan fiction that I posted on a website. From there, I graduated to writing my own stories and actually started making money off writing by ghostwriting for other people.

Did you always want to be a writer? If not, what else did you want to do?

I’ve always been a storyteller, but I haven’t always wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a filmmaker, so that’s what I did. I went to film school and became a producer and helped other people tell their stories. Eventually, I wanted to focus more on telling stories that I created, which is what drew me back to writing.

What inspired you to write your debut romance?

At the time, I’d been writing fan fiction. The thing is when it’s someone else’s characters, you have to stick to who everyone knows those characters are or you incur the wrath of the fans.

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I wanted to start creating and developing characters and telling original stories. For weeks, I had these characters and this idea trying to claw it’s way out of my brain. I found this website where people were posting their original work and getting feedback and critiques. I would come home late at night from working a long production day on a film set, producing an event or working for Getty Images that was usually anywhere from 12-18 hours and I would write a chapter and post to this site. At the beginning I was consistent with doing a chapter a night and then life got in the way and it took me a little longer to post chapters, but after a year I realized I had a finished book.

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