Mini-view with Rebecca Connolly (My Fair Spinster)

About the Author

Rebecca Connolly writes romances, both period and contemporary, because she absolutely loves a good love story. She has been creating stories since childhood, and there are home videos to prove it! She started writing them down in elementary school and has never looked back. She currently lives in the Midwest, spends every spare moment away from her day job absorbed in her writing, and is a hot cocoa addict.

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The Interview

1. What inspired the idea for My Fair Spinster?
In writing a group of Spinsters, I wanted to make them all different in some way. Grace was the challenging one because she was supposedly perfect. So I thought about exploring that. Why is a perfect woman not married? Why indeed… It turned out to be a fantastic adventure for me as an author!

2. What did you as an author take away from writing My Fair Spinster?
I loved writing Grace, a woman who from the outside had everything, but struggled with wanting approval where none could be found. It spoke to me a lot about expectations and how we see ourselves. I loved helping Grace grow and found myself wanting to see myself differently.

3. What is your current WIP?  What can you tell us about it?
My current WIP is another installment of the Swoony Sports Romances with Sophia Summers and Heather B Moore called Northbrook Hockey Elite. It is a wild ride!
4. What advice would you give an aspiring author that you wish you would have known before you became a published author?
Don’t read reviews! It’s so hard because we want to know what people think, we want to know what they hate, we’re afraid of them hating it… Don’t read them. The bad ones will stick with you and you will forget all about the many good. No one will ever love your work as much as you do. If you love it, that’s good enough.
5. What is your favorite fall activity?
I am all about the sweaters and hot cocoa. I mean, I am always about hot cocoa, but I love being out on a beautiful clear day that is cool and I’m all bundled up and the leaves are glorious colors… I would love it to be fall all year round.