What is
your favourite book, song, or movie that inspires you to write?
Hm, the answer to that is more complicated than I had
thought…
I can’t point out a single moment in my life or book I
read which made me think “I want to be an author” – but I remember that Anne
Rice’s Vampire Chronicles made me
wish I’d be able to create such fascinating worlds and characters too. Out of
those novels, I’ve read The Tale of the
Body Thief the most, though I love all others like Interview with the Vampire too. And I fell in love with the English
language as well as with the urge to write while reading and re-reading The God of Small Things by Arundhati
Roy.
I don’t really get inspired by music, but I sometimes
realize while writing that a particular song would fit perfectly. When I talk
about my debut, the contemporary romance novel When I See Your Face, I am constantly reminded of the song Just The Way You Are by Bruno Mars
because he sings “When I see your face, there’s not a thing that I would
change, ‘cause you’re amazing, just the way you are”. I recently thought of
playlists for all of my books: http://www.devikafernando.com/blog/song-playlist-for-my-romance-novels
Author Bio
Almost
as soon as Devika Fernando could write, she imagined stories and poems. After
finishing her education in Germany and returning to her roots in Sri Lanka, she
got a chance to turn her passion into her profession. Having lived in Germany and
in Sri Lanka with her husband has made her experience the best (and the worst)
of two totally different worlds - something that influences her writing. Her
trademark is writing sweet and sensual, deeply emotional romance stories where
the characters actually fall in love instead of merely falling in lust.
What
she loves most about being an author is the chance to create new worlds and
send her protagonists on a journey full of ups and downs that will leave them
changed. She draws inspiration from everyone and everything in life. Besides
being a romance novel author, Devika is a faithful servant to all the cats and
dogs she has adopted. When she's not writing, she's reading or thinking about
writing.
Links
https://twitter.com/Author_Devika
https://plus.google.com/+DevikaFernando
Thanks for having me! :-)
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