Literary Birthday – 15 August – Kendall Ryan

Happy Birthday, Kendall Ryan, born on 15 August 1981.

Kendall Ryan Quotes

1. I live for good banter!! That’s one of my favourite things when I’m reading, and it can make or break the book. I definitely prefer dialogue to inner monologue, and so it’s absolutely a huge goal for me to craft my stories with hot, snappy dialogue that sizzles.
2. I also subscribe to the notion that good dialogue should surprise the reader.
3. Finding the right cover for a book is something my team and I spend a lot of time on. Mostly it’s just me or my publicist looking through photographs of beautiful men and couples.
4. I’m a plotter—guilty as charged—so I know everything before I start writing.
5. I love that tropes exist in romance. As a reader, I get to live a thousand different lives, and isn’t that really why we read fiction to begin with?
6. I started writing romance because therapy was expensive, fictional men always text back, and the voices in my head wouldn’t shut up until I gave them a book deal.
7. Don’t chase trends. By the time you’ve written that ‘hot’ trope, TikTok has already moved on to something else.
8. My process is far from glamorous. I would describe it as chaotic and caffeine-fueled. I listen to music while I write. And I live by my outline.

Source for quotes 1-5: Goodreads Interview and quotes 6-8: BookFinity

Kendall Ryan is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling American novelist. She writes romance, new adult, and romantic comedies, and her books have sold more than 2 million copies worldwide. Her flirty, feel-good romances are filled with heart, heat, and plenty of banter. Her novels include the bestselling Love By Design series. Ryan also writes under the pseudonym Poppy St. James. Follow her on Instagram.

Source for photograph: Author’s Website

by Amanda Patterson
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