Getting kids right is tricky! There’s a fine line between making them too precocious and just plain annoying. I’ve written lots of teen and tween characters in the past, but never any young children with significant parts in the story. Hardest: One thing I particularly worried about while writing this book was Rosamund and Daisy, the hero’s two young wards.
So instead of “hardest” and “easiest,” I’ll do “hardest” and “hardester.” Nothing ever feels like the “easiest” part for me! I tend to find it all challenging to some degree, even the title. CW: What were the hardest and easiest parts of writing The Governess Game? The hardest-but most important-thing about research is resisting the urge to use all of it. From there… lots of internet rabbit holes, out-of-print books, and museum displays on clocks and chronometers and longitude and early astronomy and trade routes… 99% of which would never appear in the book. I decided that would be an amazing job for Alex.
The way Alex makes her living-setting Londoners’ clocks to Greenwich time-was inspired by a little plaque in their museum that showed an early photograph of a Victorian woman whose family had been “selling the time” for generations. Tessa Dare: I knew I wanted to write an astronomer heroine, so naturally I visited the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. This interview has been lightly edited for clarity and style.) Cheryl Wassenaar: Beyond drawing on your husband’s family history, what did your research process look like for the creation of Alexandra’s backstory? (Don’t worry - they’re not all about The Governess Game. ( The Duchess Deal arrived last year.)īut how do readers keep coming back for more? How does the process work? As both a romance fan and a writer, I was pleased to have the chance to ask some questions via email, and below you’ll see what she had to say. By Cheryl Wassenaar 4 years ago Fresh off the release of The Governess Game, Tessa Dare revealed some of what went into writing the book and how she’s incorporating today’s issues.īoth books in Tessa Dare’s Girl Meets Duke series have made it to the New York Times bestseller list, including last month’s release, The Governess Game, which appeared in 10th place.
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