Catching Up with Lisa Becker and Links!
I am thrilled to
have Lisa Becker back at Writer’s Corner.
She is her today to discuss her latest release Links. It has been a while since Lisa has been with
us. She is best known for the Click: AnOnline Love Story series. We had fun
casting that one! I have always loved sitting down with one of her books.
Tell us about
your newest release.
A light-hearted,
second chance romance, Links explores
what happens when nerdy girl Charlotte Windham reconnects with her unrequited
schoolgirl crush, star athlete Garrett Stephens, 15 years after high
school.
Book Trailer
Did you have an
unrequited crush in high school?
I'm not too ashamed to admit I had such a fierce crush on a boy,
I willingly sat with him in the bathroom at parties while he puked up wine
coolers, just so I could spend time with him. Thankfully, that soul-crushing
time in my life in over, but I couldn't help but wonder what would happen if I
came upon that secret crush today as a confident, successful woman.
Can you tell us more about the main character(s)?
Charlotte
Windham was a typical ugly duckling in high school -- glasses and all. Highly
intelligent and immensely talented, she's become a breakout success with her
best-selling novel, The Crossing
Guard. In school, she harbored an
unrequited crush on Garrett Stephens, the teen heartthrob and star athlete
who's gone on to become a professional golfer suffering a possible
career-ending injury. The book explores what happens when these two former
classmates have a chance encounter in a Los Angeles restaurant, 15 years after
high school. With the upper hand, can Charlotte forgive Garrett for his past
ways, and for his more recent Don Juan lifestyle? Will she even want to? And,
can Garrett change his ways for a second chance with Charlotte, who may just be
the perfect fit for him?
Imagine Links
would be turned into a movie, who would you cast for the
main characters?
I would love to see someone with the emotional range
and depth of Maggie Gyllenhaal to play Charlotte. I think she could make her
come across as vulnerable, successful, intelligent and passionate. For Garrett,
we would need someone who is classically handsome and oozes charm. Matt Bomer,
who pulled that off perfectly on White
Collar comes to mind. If he's not
available, let's just say, I would love to be at the casting call for that
role.
You have also published other books, can you tell us more about them?
I'm most known for the Click trilogy comprised of Click: An Online
Love Story, Double Click and Right Click. The series follows a young woman's search
for love online in Los Angeles with the entire series unfolding in emails
between our heroine, her friends and her hilarious dates. Fraught with BCC's,
FWD's and inadvertent Reply to All's, readers will cheer, laugh, cry and cringe
following the email exploits of Renee and friends. And ultimately, they will
root for Renee to "click" with the right man.
What do you have
in the works?
I've just wrapped up a contemporary romance called Starfish, which examines the unlikely
relationship between a regular girl and a touring guitarist in a band. When it
comes to romance, you just can't pass up the idea of falling in love with a
rock star.
About Lisa Becker
Lisa’s
writings about online
dating have been featured in Cupid’s Pulse, GalTime.com, Single Edition, The
Perfect Soulmate, Chick Lit Central and numerous other book blogs and websites.
As Lisa's
grandmother used to say, "For every chair, there's a rush." Lisa is
now happily married to a man she met online and lives in Manhattan Beach with
him and their two daughters. So, if it happened for her, there’s hope for
anyone!
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