Photo credits: ready made - pexels Edited by Vaishali Title: Broken Like Me Author: Kaitie Howie Genre/Themes: Romantic Fiction, Healing, Consent, Trauma, Healthy Relationships, Sexual Assault Awareness Mental Illness,/Mental Health, Motherhood, Abuse, Suspected Publication Date: 15th June 2021 Publisher: Self-published A fresh author on the writing scene, Kaitie Howie materialises within a genre known for its passion, pain, pluck and the strains and gains of audacious love that we greedy romance consumers love to dive into. Romance is a genre that lays an irreversible claim to the best and most of my reading days. I just love it. Sit me under twinkling trees with leafy tresses that paint up a scenic stage of winking lights, opaline stars, expansive stretches of sky and rose-tinted sunsets rich with a hope and hurt and love. Of course, It’s not all diamond eyes and bottomless joy. Love can look like calamity and feel like fathomless adversity. With the lavishes of edgy, upbeat and inspiring love stories can come the true-to-heart, hard-hitting tales that lay out much more than romance, much more than slipping seamlessly into loving other people. Sometimes it demands working through lifelong detriment in a means to heal who we are. About working through what it might take to love someone else and accepting the love returned. Stories can probe the well of yawning, gaping trauma represented through troubled and tormented heroes and heroines with chasmic stories to tell. Behind the face of bravery is the face of rolling vulnerability. That, and understanding that healing takes time. Kaitie Howie opens up with a passion project in Broken Like Me; one that characterises heavy themes that hit close to her life and soul. With themes of found family, mental illness, healing, trauma, motherhood, healthy relationships, surviving assault and domestic violence, Howie epitomises the painful and poignant lasting conflict of a woman whose struggle is much more personal, and hence, much more profound. I’m so happy to announce that I was lucky enough to engage in an interview with Kaitie herself! The author’s insightful, free-spoken and informatively fleshed out answers grapple with the fine components of relaying important topics through fiction and balanced writing while they also double as a great resource for first-time writers. I’ll leave you with our interview where the author talks about what she dubs ‘a piece of her soul’… N O T E: This interview may contain very minimal uses of profanity. Vaishali (V.L. Book Reviews): Hi Kaitie! Tell us a bit about yourself and your debut novel, ‘Broken Like Me’…
V: Reviewers explain that your book discusses some heavy themes such as mental health, trauma and surviving sexual assault. Why was it important for you to examine these struggles through your hero and heroine?
V: Your favourite scene to write and the scene that required the most attention?
V: Publishing your first book can be nerve-wracking; how did you find your way and what is the most valuable thing you’ve learned?
V: What would you like to see more representation of in literature?
V: If you could pair a soundtrack or one single song with ‘Broken Like Me’ what would it be?
V: If you could pick any character from a book or movie to be/trade places with for the day, who would it be and why?
V: If you had to choose, would you love to sell 10,000 copies of your book or own a lifetime supply of free books on hand
V: If you had zero responsibilities/demands in the world, what would your dream life look like?
V: A favourite book, quote or piece of advice that has stayed with you?
BROKEN LIKE ME - B Y K A I T I E H O W I E A big thank you to Kaitie for getting in touch and participating in this interview! W H E R E Y O U C A N F I N D K A I T I E A N D H E R W O R K ● Author Website: http://www.kaitiehowie.com ● Twitter: https://twitter.com/kaitiehowie?lang=en ● Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kaitiehowiewrites/ ● Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0968TPB2W/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0 ● Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/21561141.Kaitie_Howie ● Barnes and Noble (US store): https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/broken-like-me-kaitie-howie/1139641320?ean=9781087875071 I love interacting with fellow readers, reviewers, bloggers and writers. Hearing about reader opinion is the fuel to my reader appetite, so get in touch and comment below! H A P P Y R E A D I N G <3 SHARE ON FACEBOOK: Leave a comment and let's talk...
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