Looking
Back On Forever
by
Kat Alexander
Genre:
Contemporary Romance
There
are moments in time that stand out more than others: your first kiss,
a special birthday party, seeing your baby for the first time, an
intimate conversation, a first date, even something as little as
sitting around a dining room table with friends. This is the story of
the moments that stood out after I first laid eyes on Noah Gish. ~
Claire Sawyer
The
city, it used to be a place I loved and missed with an ache in my
gut. It was home. The place where I grew up, where I had fun, where I
had my friends, where life was as good as I knew it to be. Then I was
shipped off to a place that begins the story of how I fell in love,
just to screw everything up. ~ Noah Gish
This
is a contemporary romance about first love and heartbreak.
What inspired you to write this book?
I get a lot of my ideas while driving in the car, listening to music. Looking Back on Forever was inspired by The Killers’ “Miss Atomic Bomb.” I love the band, and many of their songs helped form and inspire this song: all the heartbreak, wanting to run away from problems, always remembering what was and what could have been. So many of their songs fit this book. My playlist for the book is really the story in itself. If you listen to it, you have the book.
Do you have any “side stories” about the characters?
Some characters from Looking Back on Forever will be seen again. I really, really want to write Cyn’s story. She goes through the most, I think, yet her story isn’t developed too much in Looking Back because, as I was writing it, I was already outlining her own book.
Half the people who read Looking Back are begging for Kyle’s book. I felt his story was developed well for a secondary character. You see how he starts and how his story ends, but he had a really big character arc, and I would love to write that out fully. He went from a fun-loving jokester to a serious, no-nonsense guy, and I think his story needs some delving into. I really want to venture into his psyche.
Literature
is my passion. I like to challenge myself and grow in my writings. I
have many unfinished books and some that have been published under a
different name. Why I chose to do this is because of my writing
growth and the differentiation in genre. I don't want my future books
to be judged by the inexperience of my past writings. Though I love
those books, they came out of nowhere and it's apparent in the
writings they were a first draft from someone with no experience.
My
passions include the arts--music, photography, writing, dance,
painting, films, architecture, anything that is creation. There is
not much I don't like; and if I don't like it, I at least appreciate
the process that took place to create it. This is something
incorporated in all my books. I've known so many talented people, and
truly believe no one is without a talent. Everyone has something
ingrained in them; just naturally gives them the ability to create
new life in the form of art.
In
my spare time, which is basically non-existent between my day job and
writing, I enjoy being out in nature, travelling, spending time with
family, and reading. I read everything, from contemporary to
paranormal, from historical romance to erotica, from history to
science. Learning is something very important to me. I really do
learn something new everyday, my brain storing so much useless to
life-saving information. My brain, the sponge.
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