1--What is the title of your latest release?
THE LOVE OF MY AFTERLIFE
2--What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book?
After choking on a hamburger and dying, a cynical virgin is sent back to Earth and given ten days to get a kiss from her soulmate to stay alive or fail and work for a dating service for the dead.
3--How did you decide where your book was going to take place?
I had just moved to London after years of living in the north of England. I fell so in love with London that summer that I wanted to write a book set around where I lived! A love letter, I suppose.
4--Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life?
Ha! Not at first. But when she starts to unclench a bit? Definitely. She’s so firmly herself it’s very endearing.
5--What are three words that describe your protagonist?
Kind, straightforward, particular
6--What’s something you learned while writing this book?
That entire books can be written in 20-minute bursts, just so long as you have regular dance breaks!
7--Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done?
Oh gosh, wait until I’ve done. By force, though. I’m always itching to edit as I write but I know that if I allow it, I will never finish the draft.
8--What’s your favorite foodie indulgence?
A British corn crisp snack called Space Raiders. Beef flavor or Pickled Onion flavor. They are so cheap and so delicious and so terrible for me.
9--Describe your writing space/office!
I’ve moved house now, but while I wrote The Love of My Afterlife, I was working from my studio flat in Paddington, London. I had a desk pushed up against a huge open window, where I spent the entire summer writing to a soundtrack of happy tourists wheeling suitcases past my house. I loved it – the happiest time I’ve ever had writing a book.
10--Who is an author you admire?
Emily Henry. As a long-time romance novel pusher, I am thrilled at what Emily Henry has done to re-invigorate this genre and scoop up so many new readers who are now experiencing the total joy of reading novels that are unabashedly about love. And, of course, her books absolutely slap. I’m a fan.
11--Is there a book that changed your life?
Oh man, so many of them. But pressed, I’d have to say The Naughtiest Girl in The School by Enid Blyton. Reading that book is the earliest memory I have of the magical feeling of reading a good story can give you; that complete immersion in a new world, fascination with the inner lives of people you’ll never meet, all while being expertly entertained. That was the book that got me hooked on books. It also gave me my first taste of the ‘unlikeable female character’ – my fave!
12--Tell us about when you got “the call.” (when you found out your book was going to be published)/Or, for indie authors, when you decided to self-publish.
My deal in the US was the result of an auction! Because of the time difference, it was around 10pm I think, when my agent called me to tell me that Berkley were going to be publishing my The Love of My Afterlife. I had loved Jen Monroe the editor there from the moment I first zoomed with her, so I was absolutely buzzing. There was a lot of joyful yelling that night!
13--What’s your favorite genre to read?
Romantic Comedy.
14--What’s your favorite movie?
As Good as It Gets
15--What is your favorite season?
Summer. It used to be Autumn, but that changed after experiencing London in the summer. Nothing is better.
16--How do you like to celebrate your birthday?
I like to eke it out for as long as possible. Lots of dinners and drinks dates with different pals and family members. I have been known to make my birthday celebrations last for a fortnight.
17--What’s a recent tv show/movie/book/podcast you highly recommend?
Severance is the best TV show I’ve ever seen in years. I’ve watched it two and a half times through. If you haven’t seen it, you have to get on it. The finale of season one – Oh my Goodness. Perfection.
18--What’s your favorite type of cuisine?
Greek.
19--What do you do when you have free time?
I read books, I write musicals, I look after my friend’s dog Tupi, and I gad around London with my fella and my buddies.
20--What can readers expect from you next?
I can’t reveal the title of my next book YET, but I will say that it’s just as funny and bonkers and swoony as The Love of My Afterlife. Also there is a ghost. And a hot geek. And it’s all set in a majestic manor house in the Scottish Highlands. I’m having an absolute riot writing it.
A recently deceased woman meets “the one” in the afterlife waiting room, scoring a second chance at life (and love!) if she can find him on earth before ten days are up…
If she wasn’t dead already, Delphie would be dying of embarrassment. Not only did she just die by choking on a microwaveable burger, but now she’s standing in her ‘shine like a star’ nightie in front of the hottest man she’s ever seen. And he’s smiling at her.
As they start to chat, everything else becomes background noise. That is until someone comes running out of a door, yelling something about a huge mistake, and sends the dreamy stranger back down to earth. And here Delphie was thinking her luck might be different in the afterlife.
When Delphie is offered a deal in which she can return to earth and reconnect with the mysterious man, she jumps at the opportunity to find her possible soulmate and a fresh start. But in a city of millions, Delphie is going to have to listen to her heart, learn to ask for help, and perhaps even see the magic in the life she’s leaving behind…
Romance Comedy | Women's Fiction [Penguin, On Sale: July 2, 2024, Paperback / e-Book, ISBN: 9780593816134 / eISBN: 9780593816141]
Kirsty was born and raised in a small-town in Greater Manchester. Previously a book editor, and named as a 2016 Rising Star in The Bookseller, she is a full-time writer of books that make readers belly laugh and ugly cry. She is obsessed with musical theatre and currently working on a new romantic comedy musical, as well as more novels.
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