When I first met my husband he told me he wanted to build a house. I am in the caravan crying into my wine glass.

We're building a house in Scotland. Correction, my husband is building a house. If my writing stalls, it’s usually because I don’t know my character well enough.ĥ. If I know how they tick and I know what they want, the plot comes to me naturally because they drive it. For me, the character always comes first.

However, I absolutely have to know my character inside out before I can begin. For me, characters come first. When I start writing a new book, I tend to sit down and write it by the seat of my pants without much plotting. I could not have picked a more 'wrong' couple to blab to.Ĥ. Both of them turned out to journalists working for prestigious newspapers. I told them all about my book and how I was an author. Not long after I’d signed the contract for my debut, I got chatting to a random couple at a table next to us in a pokey restaurant in Yorkshire. I'm terrible at keeping secrets. Just to clarify – I can keep someone else’s secrets but I’m a terrible blabber of my own. I find all of that fascinating, and I love to incorporate it into my writing.ģ. The psychology behind why people act the way they do, what drives them to make certain decisions, what pushes each individual person to their own individual edge. I love psychology and psychoanalysing people. I love to know what makes people tick. My dad built a couple for us to play games on which we slowly destroyed one after the other when we discovered the internet and anti-virus software was not 'A Thing' yet.Ģ. My mum would take us to the library after school and at the weekends, and we always got new books before going on a holiday. As such, books were a huge part of my childhood. I grew up without a TV. My parents made the lifestyle choice not to have a TV, and we didn’t get one until I was about 11/12. To celebrate, we asked her to reveal some interesting facts all about her, so that readers can get to know the wonderful woman behind the enchanting words on the page of this unique and fascinating read.ġ. Today (August 5th, 2021) marks the release of author Naomi Gibson's new novel, Every Line Of You. Author Naomi Gibson opens up in an exclusive piece for Female First

Every Line of You by Naomi Gibson