READER'S ROCK LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE VOL 2 ISSUE 4 NOVEMBER 2014 Vol. 1 Issue 7 January 2014 | Page 38
Danielle Rose West
find that in my life and my wish for every person in the
if the second book was out. It filled me with so much
Please introduce yourself. Tell us a little about the
world is that they will find it too. There is nothing like
joy that someone loved my work enough to email me
person behind the pen.
it!
and let me know about it. Another one was someone
My name is Danielle Rose-West and I live in the United
How much research goes intoyour books, and how
cowboy meets girl, is mean, gets redeemed and then
that said she'd expected my book to be the usual
Kingdom with my family and our small dog. I am
something of a romantic dreamer and always have
do you
tackle that?
much more than that and loved the book. I think the
worst was when someone actually said that they
been. I have always been a rather shy person. When I
was growing up, books were often my best friends!
they get together. She was amazed that it was so
It depends on the story, but there is always a certain
I have loved reading since I was a small child. My very
amount of research that goes in. Even though there is
first books were by Enid Blyton. She completely
an element within my books that is totally magical or
fascinated me with all the different worlds she
paranormal, I do like to add realism in the storyline
introduced me to. My very favourite books were her
too. Generally, I do a lot of research using the net. I
Far Away Tree series. I still remember every story in
like to find videos wherever I can and pictures that
those books even now! Magical!
really help me get a visual in my head. In my latest
I love to read still, of course, and I enjoy spending time
book, the story is centred on a large Georgian house. I
with my husband when we both have time off from
found floor plans of those types of houses to give me
work. I love to get out and about. I walk very day for
a feel of the layout and pictures that showed me the
exercise and it really helps me to plot my books. I
inside and outside of those kinds of dwellings. It really
really am a very ordinary person getting to live the
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