1--What is the title of your latest release?
ROSENFELD
2--What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book?
A GROWN-UP LOVE STORY FOR GROWN-UPS: A filmmaker falls madly in love with a successful, older CEO, because she believes he can handle the aggression she's been carrying since childhood. And she's right, he can. In the most sexy way imaginable.
3--How did you decide where your book was going to take place?
I keep my characters close to me — so where I live is where I placed them.
4--Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life?
Absolutely! Mostly, I’d like to hang out with her when she’s out and about with Teddy.
5--What are three words that describe your protagonist?
Witty, broken and talented.
6--What’s something you learned while writing this book?
To trust the process. And to avoid overthinking feedback.
7--Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done?
I edit as I go. An author has two roles — writer and editor — and each demands a different mindset. So, every time I sit down to work, I try to figure out what’s right for me to do at that moment: create something new or edit an existing text.
8--What’s your favorite foodie indulgence?
Lobster bisque.
9--Describe your writing space/office!
I have a studio in the city, a shared workspace, along with friends from various fields — designers, architects, painters and such.
10--Who is an author you admire?
Jonathan Safran Foer
11--Is there a book that changed your life?
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ by Sue Townsend
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.
I got an email from Margo Shickmanter at Avid Reader Press. Among other things, she wrote: 'I think you’ve written something astoundingly horny and exciting that deserves to become an international sensation.' So obviously, I had to cry.
13--What’s your favorite genre to read?
Psychological fiction.
14--What’s your favorite movie?
The Negotiator, with Kevin Spacey and Samuel L. Jackson
15--What is your favorite season?
Autumn
16--How do you like to celebrate your birthday?
Wild crowded party
17--What’s a recent tv show/movie/book/podcast you highly recommend?
Baby Reindeer — Richard Gadd, Netflix
Ghost Story — Tristan Redman, Wondery
Who’s Afraid of LaDonna Humphrey? — Javier Leiva, Pretend Podcast
18--What’s your favorite type of cuisine?
French
19--What do you do when you have free time?
Work?
20--What can readers expect from you next?
Maybe seeing my stories on TV one day!
A brazenly sexy and scathingly candid novel about a white-hot relationship and the two intractable characters who emerge from it transformed.
Noa Simon is a thirty-six-year-old filmmaker who knows what she wants when she sees it, and when she meets Teddy Rosenfeld, an antagonistic, older CEO, she goes for the jugular. An electrifying encounter in a bathroom stall after their first meeting only serves to whet Noa’s appetite, and despite Teddy’s subsequent rejections, she is exhilarated by the challenge—and by her own insatiability. In her first power play, she takes a job at his office, setting up a battle of the wills that Teddy proves unable to resist. Their ravenous, volatile romance will ultimately unearth difficult secrets from both of their pasts, and finally force Noa to reckon with her deepest desires and most destructive impulses.
Written with visceral intensity and voyeuristic precision, Rosenfeld is a propulsive tale of sexual abandon that titillates and interrogates in equal measure.
Romance [Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, On Sale: November 19, 2024, Hardcover / e-Book, ISBN: 9781668053454 / eISBN: 9781668053478]
Maya Kessler is a writer, film director, and producer. Kessler studied arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. She currently works as a filmmaker for a global oncology company, alongside writing and developing original content for the international television market.
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