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Tell us a little bit about your background and how you ended up writing a book?
Funny story, I’ve always enjoyed reading and writing but the last women’s fiction book I read before I wrote my first novel, Discovering Lita was quite boring and it just didn’t seem relatable to the modern woman. Immediately the quote by Toni Morrison popped up in my head, “If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” That quote stuck out to me so much that I couldn’t deny that I had to be the one to write the wanted to read.
Funny story, I’ve always enjoyed reading and writing but the last women’s fiction book I read before I wrote my first novel, Discovering Lita was quite boring and it just didn’t seem relatable to the modern woman. Immediately the quote by Toni Morrison popped up in my head, “If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” That quote stuck out to me so much that I couldn’t deny that I had to be the one to write the wanted to read.
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Angie D. Lee is a licensed social worker for Chicago Public Schools and the author of the fictional lifestyle and romance novels such as Discovering Lita and Something New.
She wrote Discovering Lita as a reaction to reading “boring, unrelatable” women’s fiction books. Her inspiration not only came from the one and only trailblazer Toni Morrison but also from the need to write a piece of work that the modern woman could identify with. Lee said, “The quote by Toni Morrison popped into my head, ‘If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.'” Lee knew then that she couldn’t deny it any longer, and thus, Something New and Discovering Lita came to be!
Angie D. Lee is a licensed social worker for Chicago Public Schools and the author of the fictional lifestyle and romance novels such as Discovering Lita and Something New.
She wrote Discovering Lita as a reaction to reading “boring, unrelatable” women’s fiction books. Her inspiration not only came from the one and only trailblazer Toni Morrison but also from the need to write a piece of work that the modern woman could identify with. Lee said, “The quote by Toni Morrison popped into my head, ‘If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.'” Lee knew then that she couldn’t deny it any longer, and thus, Something New and Discovering Lita came to be!
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