Emily Henry has quickly become a brand name in the rom-com literary space. In a new Q&A, she talks Book Lovers and learning to embrace humor.
, this is the perfect script for adaptation. Author Emily Henry has captured all the classic Hallmark tropes in her newest rom-com,including a small town fix project and a main character that embodies a perfect combination of Miranda Priestley, Andrea Sachs, and Nigel — but some of our favorite tropes are subverted, modernized, or just tweaked a bit.
Emily Henry: I’m way more like Libby actually. I do not want to know how a book ends. Sometimes I will text a friend if I know they’ve read it to be like, “Here’s how I’m feeling, should I read it?” But, I love not knowing. As little as I can know is ideal for me as a reader. I really try to keep it as this is one character’s arc. So one character deciding to give up her life in the city doesn’t necessarily mean the author is saying cities are bad. But when you see that story over, over, and over again, it’s like, “Well, what are we saying about people who live in the city?”
The reason I wanted Nora to be an agent is because it’s such a weird job. You are sort of this lawyer and negotiator where you have to be a hard ass to get what your clients need, but then your clients are just a weepy mess and so ridiculous and so needy. So you have to be soft with them and coax them into doing their job. I know that because I’m a writer.
First of all, thank you. That’s such a huge compliment. That just means a lot. When I set out to write my first romance novel in, I really wanted to write this fun, light, sexy rom-com. Then immediately I’m like okay, her dad died and betrayed her, and instantly my brain just goes there. I don’t really know how to get into characters’ heads without figuring out the worst thing that’s ever happened to them.It’s how I figure characters out. In romance, so much of it is that character arc.
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