Author Interview: Tammara Webber

Breakable by Tammara Webber
Published by Penguin Berkley on May 6th 2014
Genres: New Adult-Contemporary/Romance
Source: Blog Tour, FTC: Exchange for honest opinion
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He was lost and alone. Then he found her.
And the future seemed more fragile than ever.

As a child, Landon Lucas Maxfield believed his life was perfect and looked forward to a future filled with promise — until tragedy tore his family apart and made him doubt everything he ever believed.

All he wanted was to leave the past behind. When he met Jacqueline Wallace, his desire to be everything she needed came so easy…

As easy as it could be for a man who learned that the soul is breakable and that everything you hoped for could be ripped away in a heartbeat.

Hello and welcome to the Breakable Blog Tour!

Today I have an interview with the lovely Tammara Webber.

 Which writers inspire you?

For the past year or so, I’ve been inspired by my coworkers – the critique partners and beta-readers I swap manuscripts with for criticism and story advice. Colleen Hoover, Tracey Garvis Graves, Abbi Glines and Elizabeth Reyes are a few of the women I watch, read and admire.

 What draws you to the New Adult genre?

New Adult didn’t exist when I began writing it in 2009. Easy (self-published May 2012; republished by Penguin in October 2012) was my breakout novel, but I’d published three novels before it with characters in the 17-22 year-old age range. I categorized all of these (including Easy) “Mature Young Adult,” because the stories and characters still had a coming-of-age feel to them, though the characters were older and the issues they faced focused on leading independent lives. Once “New Adult” became the label readers used to identify it as a separate category, I began using it as well.

Give us an insight into your main character. What do you think makes Lucas so special to you and readers?

Lucas is special to me because he represents a real man. He isn’t a celebrity or a rock star or a billionaire – he’s an everyday real guy, working to support himself, focusing on his goals, ignoring what’s missing in his life – a relationship and love all his own. I gave Lucas a past that included one of my worst personal fears as a mother, and though readers saw in Easy how that one nightmare event had shaped him, they didn’t get the whole story.

For your own reading, do you prefer e-books or traditional paper/hard back books?

I do both. For new authors, I almost always buy digital. (I send LOTS of samples to my e-reader, and choose from the ones I absolutely must keep reading.) For established favorite authors, I frequently still buy hardback or trade paperback. Sometimes, I end up buying both digital and paper, though that’s rare.

What books do you look forward to this summer?

It’s sad how often something pops up on my Kindle or shows up in my mailbox and I’m completely surprised by it! Either that, or I try to buy something online and get the little “you already bought this, dummy” notice. I frequently have no idea what’s coming out when. I also get to read many books as they’re being shaped – I read Ugly Love months ago, for instance, though Colleen tells me she’s flipped it on its head since then, so I’ll be rereading it soon.

 

Thanks, Tammara!

About the author:

Tammara Webber is author of the New York Times bestselling New Adult novel Easy, the first novel in her Contours of the Heart series, and the Between the Lines series.  She is a hopeful romantic who adores novels with happy endings, because there are enough sad endings in real life.  Before writing full-time, she was an undergraduate academic advisor, economics tutor, planetarium office manager, radiology call center rep, and the palest person to ever work at a tanning salon.  She married her high school sweetheart, and is a mom to three adult kids and four very immature cats.  Connect with her online at tammarawebber.blogspot.com, twitter.com/tammarawebber, and www.facebook.com/TammaraWebberAuthor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Reading!