What is the title of your latest release?
2--What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book?
Carrie Morgan returns to her small, witchy hometown of Woodsmoke nestled in the shadow of a vast mountain range and falls in love with a man her family warn her may not be real, who appears as the frost thaws and disappears in springtime
3--How did you decide where your book was going to take place?
Woodsmoke is entirely fictional, but it’s an amalgamation of places that are real; the crisscross of trails between the fields on the island where I live, the mountains of Colorado I visited on a writing retreat and the small town I grew up in with a central market square.
4--Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life?
Carrie and Jess are the kind of people I would share dinner and a glass of wine with, whilst swapping gossip and stories and book recs
5--What are three words that describe your protagonist?
Complicated, artistic, thoughtful
6--What’s something you learned while writing this book?
This book has a structure I hadn’t attempted before, it has flashbacks, epigraphs and it’s told from three different perspectives: Carrie, Cora and Jess. This book taught me how to approach storytelling in a new way, and how to dig into a character and portray them honestly, in all their wonderful complexity on the page.
7--Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done?
It varies from book to book! Sometimes I will burn through a draft, and my fingers tapping on the keyboard cannot keep up with the flow of the narrative in my head. But sometimes I will take a beat, read back through and re-ground myself in the world and the character’s voice, particularly if I am working on something sporadically in between other deadlines.
8--What’s your favorite foodie indulgence?
I love food. Just love, love food – and I would give a different answer depending on my mood, the day of the week, where I am - today, my foodie indulgence is going to be a delicious homemade chicken pie with sweet potato and carrot mash, then foraged blackberry and apple crumble with vanilla custard.
9--Describe your writing space/office!
I have a shoebox of an office, which is the tiny box room sandwiched between the staircase and my daughter’s room, which is so handy for meetings and interviews, because I can close the door. But I will work anywhere I can, with whatever I have to hand. Whether it’s the notes app on my phone, or on my laptop jammed on a small foldout table on a busy train, I’ve trained myself to get the work done wherever I find myself.
10--Who is an author you admire?
Agatha Christie. To have inspired generations of writers, to have created work with timeless appeal that is still beloved to this day is a rare and special thing.
11--Is there a book that changed your life?
Northern Lights by Phillip Pullman is one of the books that embedded in me that deep desire to be a writer and to write my own books and see them published one day.
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.
Each time I’ve found out about a book deal, it’s been an email from my agent, and I have immediately shared the news with my husband and family. There is usually a bit of a build up to that moment, and I know at that point that it’s gone to acquisitions, and usually that an offer is on the way. So when the email lands, I generally feel pure relief! The excitement builds for me as I get to chat with my editors, see the cover design for the first time and then get to hold the finished copy. Finding my books in bookshops will never get old, it’s a moment of complete joy every time.
13--What’s your favorite genre to read?
I read across so many genres and age categories, that I do not have a favorite! Right now, I’m reading a children’s book, it’s a mystery and I’m loving it. Next week might be a thriller, or a young adult fantasy, or a non-fiction book about a topic I’m interested in. The key for me is a great story, not that it fits in a particular box.
14--What’s your favorite movie?
Ha,ha - I don’t have one of those either! There are a few films I gravitate towards, like You’ve Got Mail, Pride and Prejudice, The Hobbit series, About Time…I recently really loved Where the Crawdad Sings. I’m still searching for that next epic series of family fantasy films that will become staples in my home.
15--What is your favorite season?
It has to be autumn. The crisp, ruddy leaves, sharp cold twinned with low sunshine…perfect knitwear and muddy walks weather.
16--How do you like to celebrate your birthday?
I prefer celebrating other people’s birthdays! Choosing gifts and seeing their happiness is the absolute best.
17--What’s a recent tv show/movie/book/podcast you highly recommend?
Oooo, I love this! I always recommend a few things on my author newsletter. At the moment, I’m really enjoying VE Shchwab’s No Write Way podcast series, where she interviews writers and screenwriters on their work and process. Truly fascinating and very cozy to listen to.
18--What’s your favorite type of cuisine?
I really love hearty British food, give me pies and roast dinners and crumbles and cakes and breads and I’m a very happy chicken
19--What do you do when you have free time?
I love swimming, reading, going to the small island gym, going on long coastal walks and listening to interesting podcasts. Also more recently, horse riding!
20--What can readers expect from you next?
I always love this question! My next book is out in February/ March in 2025, the next installment in my YA fantasy series, Shadow and Tide. After that, I have more books planned, but they’re still secrets, so watch this space!
A witchy, spellbinding tale of magic and love
In a magical new direction for One Christmas Morning author Rachel Greenlaw, an evocative and mysterious story about lost love and the magic of coming home, for readers of Adrienne Young and Breanne Randall.
There is an old tale woven through the mountain town of Woodsmoke about a stranger who appears as the first snow falls in winter, who will disappear without a trace as the frost thaws in spring, leaving a broken heart behind.
Carrie Morgan ran from Woodsmoke ten years ago, and the decision has haunted her ever since. Spending a decade painting and drifting around Europe, she tries to forget her family’s legacy and the friends she left behind. But the Morgan women have always been able to harness the power of the mountains surrounding the town, and their spells—and curses—are sewn into the soil. The mountains, they say, never forget.
Sure enough, when Carrie’s grandmother dies and leaves behind her dilapidated cottage, she returns to renovate—certain she will only be there for one winter. She meets Matthieu as the temperature dips, a newcomer who offers to help refurbish the cottage. Before long, and despite warnings from her great-aunt Cora of the old stories, Carrie finds herself falling for the charming stranger. But when the frost thaws in spring, Matthieu goes missing.
Carrie is convinced he’s real, and he’s in danger. As she fights her way across the mountains to find him, she must confront all the reasons why she left Woodsmoke and decide whether the place she’s spent the last decade running from is the home she’s been searching for.
Rachel Greenlaw, the beloved author of One Christmas Morning, returns with another beautifully crafted, emotionally charged, and romantic tale about lost love and the magic of coming home.
Women's Fiction Family Life | Paranormal [Avon, On Sale: October 22, 2024, Paperback / e-Book, ISBN: 9780063378254 / eISBN: 9780063378247]
Rachel Greenlaw lives on a tiny cluster of islands nestled deep in the Atlantic Ocean off the south coast of the UK. She is a writer, a dreamer and has a notebook filled with scribbled ideas, plot snippets and secrets. When she’s not wandering the beaches searching for cowrie shells, or taking photos of her beautiful island home, she’s usually sipping a cup of tea (or coffee), opening her laptop and finding her way through a new fictional world.
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