Lina Hope, author of New romance, lives in this small village in Lot-et-Garonne

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Lina Hope, author of New Romance, which has accumulated millions of readers with My bad Romeolives in Cocumont (47). We met her.

New romance: novels for discerning young adults. We have been warned, it is crudirect, resolutely young and in its time, a genre also described as “young adult romance”.

“The real life of young people, in terms of addictions,” explains Lina Hope. My recurring universe is the university campuses of the United States. With everything that revolves around rock music, sport, basketball, hockey or skateboarding, often against a backdrop of drugs and alcohol. “

If the very first pages may surprise, it must be recognized that these fictions, served by a nice style, are not easily put down, and are well constructed in such a way as to bring the reader, not necessarily young, to the end of the 450 or 500 pages of intrigues, twists and turns and unexpected things.

Books on the shelves, on an internet platform, this prolific bibliography is, however, the recent work of this young author.

“The best part is when you see your book on the shelves, it makes me weird and it has the same effect every time” shyly admits Lina, who only started writing in 2017.

A bulimia of writing New romance for Lina Hope

One day, I read a saga that took place on an American campus. It went like that. It's a bit presumptuous to say it, but as a joke, I told my best friend, I can do it! And I started writing. She then told me to try publishing on the Wattpad platform. I didn't even know about this app, which was free in 2017. You are a reader or reader-author, and you can publish stories, complete or episodes to follow, which readers can comment on as they are published. So I started there and built my community of readers. And as a result, it gave me a boost to produce novels. I first wrote five volumes of a saga on rock music, in ten months. In total, I have published eight novels on this platform.

Spotted by editors

Encouraged by this success and by her readers, Lina launched herself at the same time into self-publishingafter having suffered some refusals from publishers. » As many of my readers wanted me to be published in classic book format, I signed with Amazon which takes care of printing only. It was up to me to manage, with my partner Thomas, the layout, communication… It was a lot of work, especially in terms of shipping. We even made goodies. For example hoodies with the name of the novel. And I remember readers who had the name of the novel tattooed on themselves! “.

And finally, Lina's success with her readers is spotted by publishers, who are hunting on this type of platform. » I signed with Hachette for “Ghost secrets” and with Harper Collins for “My bad Roméo” while continuing to self-publish. In jargon, we call it hybrid author « .

“I always write on my phone”

Author for so few years and already a great success that she does not want to call success, although it looks like it when you accumulate very large numbers of views, on Wattpad for example! And who has just signed with Éditions Addictives, specialists in Adult Romance, under the pseudonym Romy Lynn, for this new book that she is concocting for us, the fifteenth!

Writing is an unexpected path for this prolific author who, first of all, always writes her novels on her phone, “day, night, anywhere, because I always have something in mind. » I first worked in hairdressing, then later I opened a candy shop in the Landes. And then worked for ten years in clothing sales. That's when I started writing. A passion at first, which ultimately became a real path for me” explains the young woman, who, cautious and lucid all the same, is currently pursuing training in interior decorator.

“To diversify, and to complement the activity of my partner Thomas.” Thomas Panzani is the creator of the cabinetmaking and interior design workshop “Romeo Design”, based in Cocumont in a beautiful character house that the couple is gradually restoring. An artists' den of sorts.

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