I knew I loved books and I knew what I liked to read and the types of stories I wanted to write, and that was the extent of it. I knew absolutely nothing about writing or publishing. When I wrote Keeping Sweets, it was really the first thing I had ever really written. TNA: If you could go back in time, to the moment you sat down and began writing that first story, what’s the one piece of advice you’d give yourself?ĬA: To enjoy the process. It started with a line from a song, something I heard on the radio, and that kind of morphed into a scene that didn’t actually end up in the book, and the rest was built around it. There wasn’t exactly a precise moment, more that the story kind of built slowly in my mind, and then when I went to write it, the words just kind of fell onto the page. TNA: What was your first published M/M title? Do you remember the precise moment you came up with the story idea and knew you wouldn’t rest until it was told?ĬA: Keeping Sweets was my first novel. Being a part of other people’s creative processes and getting sneak peeks into the stories before they’re perfectly polished makes me happy. When I’m not writing, I enjoy reading, not only published stories, but I actually really like beta reading for people. Like most authors (I think), most of my hobbies revolve around books. Why don’t we start out by having you tell us a little bit about yourself? Hobbies, interests, odds and ends things that make you, you.ĬA: Thank you so much! I can’t tell you how excited I am to be here, so thank you for having me! TNA: Hi, Cate, thanks so much for being here with us today.

Brokenhearted by Cate Ashwood