Interview with Maria La Serra, author of Lyrical Lights

What can you tell us about your new release, Lyrical Lights?

Lyrical Lights is an inspirational, friend to lovers romance about a girl who comes to New York hoping to become a model. When she’s dropped by her agent for not being skinny, she has to figure out her next move but when her world collides with a witty fashion photographer does her career takes on a different path.

What’s on your top 5 list for the best books you’ve ever read?

You before me,

The Bronze Horseman,

Memoirs of a Geisha,

 All the Ugly and beautiful Things,

 Sweetbitter

Who is your favorite couple from literature?

Gabriel Oaks and Bathsheba Everdene from Far from the Madding Crowd.

What’s your favorite thing about writing?

I love the escape that writing brings and creating people that are nothing like me. It gives me a great pleasure when readers tell me how real my characters feel.

What is a typical day like for you?

I start my writing after my kids go off to school at my desk early in the morning but then I drift into the kitchen with my laptop. Mostly, I write in between cooking meals or doing homework with my kids. I try to write every small minute I have.

If you had an extra hour each day, how would you spend it?

If I had an extra hour in a day, I would spend it with my kids but my mind would plot the next book.

What scene in Lyrical Lights was your favorite to write?

I love the scene where Simon challenges Mable to a game of pool, I enjoy writing the playfulness between them.

Do you have a motto, quote or philosophy you live by?

I go by the words of  Sophia Amoruso; “The energy you’ll spend focusing on someone else’s life is better spent working on your own. Just be your own idol.” and “There are secret opportunities hidden inside every failure.”

Maria La Serra is the author of the new book Lyrical Lights

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