In conversation with... Scarlett Bailey
Hello Scarlett! First of all, congratulations on the release of The Night Before Christmas . Can you please tell us what it is about? A: Hello! Thanks very much, The Night Before Christmas is about Lydia, who heads off to The Lake District with her boyfriend and soon to be fiancé, hoping to share the perfect Christmas with her group of friends. But things take an unexpected turn when she finds out that her boyfriend is planning to propose to her, a blast from the past turns up to rock her world and she meets a mysterious and very attractive stranger. Did you have the plot entirely figured out when you started writing or did it take unexpected turns as the characters grew on the page? A: I did have the plot planned out, which I think is a good idea if you don’t want to get lost along the way – there are a lot of words in a novel, and I think its probably easy to take the wrong path. Having said that, a good deal of the plot and the characters evolved during the writing spontaneously an...