Writing a novelaboutwriters is no small feat, but Tia Williams makes it look easy.
They reconnect at a party after 15 years and then spend a steamy week in Brooklyn together.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What is the first thing ever that you remember writing?
Credit: Pauline St. Denis
What is the last book that made you cry?
The Warmth of Other Suns.
Which book is at the top of your current to-read list?
I’m savingThe View Was Exhausting, by Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta, for vacation.
It combines two of my favorite things: the “fake lovers” romance trope and glitzy Hollywood couples.
Where do you write?
On the far-right corner of my couch, seated in a slumped cross-legged position with zero lumbar support.
Terrible for core alignment; don’t do this.
Which book made you a forever reader?
The Westing Gameby Ellen Raskin.
So hilarious and tricky, with perfect dialogue.
It also made me a forever writer.
What is a snack you couldn’t write without?
Reese’s Pieces (not the cups, the PIECES), and Trader Joe’s Sparkling Apple Cider.
I’m fueled by sugar.
If you could change one thing about any of your books what would it be?
The length of time it takes to write them.
How did Danielle Steele write a book a year?
What is your favorite part ofSeven Days in June?
I love the flashback when Eva and Shane first meet on the school bleachers, as wayward teens.
It was the first scene I wrote!
They had the kind of soul connection that’s impossible to fight.
What was the hardest plot point or character to write?
Describing Eva’s monstrous migraines was super hard.
I’ve had them since I was 9, and my diagnosis is intractable (i.e.
Living with an invisible illness is draining and isolating, and it affects every aspect of your life.
How do you write about this without going dark?
Write a movie poster tag line for the book.
Seven days to fall in love, 15 years to forget and seven days to get it all back.
