Older protagonists in Slow Burn Summer
Silver explains that both main characters are slightly older than the typical leads in romance novels, with Charlie just over forty and Kate just under.
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Josie Silver
Josie Silver is a writer of love stories and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of One Day in December, published in more than twenty-five languages, as well as six other romance novels. An unabashed romantic, she lives in England with her husband — whom she met by stepping on his foot on his twenty-first birthday — their two sons, and their cats.
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In Josie Silver's own words
Author Josie Silver shares the premise and central characters of her romance novel Slow Burn Summer.
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Giving characters what they need
Silver structures romantic pairings by considering what a character emotionally requires, pairing Kate with a gentle 'cinnamon bun man' after her controlling marriage.
Drawn instinctively to romance
Silver reveals that even when she tries to write other genres, her work inevitably circles back to love stories because it is central to her identity as an author.
The escalating ghost-author premise
Silver describes how Kate agrees to pose as the author of an anonymous widower's romance book, only for the facade to spiral into a massive public lie.
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