The Idea behind My Book
First I’d
like to thank Mikey for having me on his blog today! It’s an honor to be here!
Let me introduce myself. I’m Stacy Lynn Carroll. I write Young Adult
Contemporary Fiction. I like to add a little romance into my books as well, but
not the over-the-top mushy stuff. By day, I am a Mommy to three little
munchkins who keep me very busy. Once they’re all safely in dreamland, I slip
on my fuzzy slippers, grab some chocolate covered almonds, and the occasional
coke (real, not diet, that’s yucky) and I turn into Night Writer! (Insert cool
theme music here.) I love movies, dancing shows, and I’m strangely obsessed
with the color pink.
My debut novel: The Princess Sisters
came out three years ago. I was pregnant
with my first child and we had just found out we were having a little girl.
Yay! Someone to pour my pink obsession upon. As new parents do, my husband and
I were discussing names one night. We started talking about when we were
younger and what names we were sure we’d name our kids when we grew up. Thank
goodness we weren’t having a boy or his name would have been Thadeus, according
to my husband. Being a typical, young girl, I was in love with the Disney
princesses and knew someday I would have a daughter and name her after my
favorite princess, Aurora. Then as I got a little older, I also loved the name
Belle. But after marrying a man named Carroll, Belle just didn’t sound very
good anymore.
As I told him this, the wheels began
turning. I started to wonder what would happen if a mom really named all of her
daughters after fairy tale princesses? How would that affect those girls in
their everyday life? How would they be
treated at school? And how would they
relate to their names? That night, after we got home, I sat down and wrote the
prologue. It quickly shifted from one mom with several daughters, to sisters
naming all the girl cousins after princesses. Once I started writing the
prologue I realized I needed a reason for the sisters to all give their
daughters princess names. So that is when I decided that the moms had all
struck out with men. And when women are pregnant, extra hormonal, emotional
over something, and together in a group, they probably don’t make the best of
decisions. The moms decide the only way their daughters will ever meet real
life, charming “princes” is if they have names suited for real princesses.
And…ta da! A new book was born.
Once
I got further into the book and the ideas started flowing, I realized
everything wasn’t going to fit into one novel, unless I wanted it to be like
700 pages. So that is when I knew that Frogs & Toads also needed to be
written. The sequel focuses on the girls’ pasts and discovering where they came
from. They get to learn about the fathers they’ve never known and some pretty
big secrets are revealed. Then the final book in the trilogy: Forever After will
be out next year. (Crossing fingers, knocking on wood, and rubbing my lucky
rabbits foot that everything goes according to plan and it doesn’t take another
three years.)
Blurb:
One
kiss can change the future...for better or for worse.
Belle
and her cousins have conquered their fears. Now as they navigate their way
through the dating world, they start to see a "happily ever after" on
the horizon. But when an unexpected school assignment forces them to examine
their past, the Princess sisters realize they have a lot of questions about the
fathers they've never met. Secrets are revealed, long lost family members are
discovered, and now the girls must decide who belongs in their future and who
should be kept in the past.
Author
Bio:
Stacy
Lynn Carroll has always loved telling stories.
She started out at Utah State University where she pursued a degree in
English, learned how to western swing, and watched as many of her fellow
students became ‘True Aggies’. She then
finished her BA at the University of Utah where she got an emphasis in creative
writing. After college she worked as an
administrative assistant, where she continued to write stories for the
amusement of her co-workers. When her
first daughter was born, and with the encouragement of a fortune cookie, she
quit her job and became a full-time mommy and writer. She and her husband have three children, two
Corgis, and a fish named Don.
Links:
The
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