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Book lovers emily henry review7/7/2023 ![]() She says she was between projects and wanted to work on something "summery and nice and fun." She ended up with a draft of what would become her first romance novel, "Beach Read." “I think that everything about me bleeds into my books a little bit,” Henry, 32, says. Henry wrote three young adult novels before stumbling into romance. "My friends came to just expect that from me," she says with a laugh. before starting her job, plus Saturdays and Sundays. She says she would write in all of her time off, waking up at 5 a.m. ![]() Rattling off a list that includes dog walking, babysitting, and working at Taco Bell, the YMCA, her college's tutoring center and a carwash, Henry eventually settled into a technical writing job after she graduated from Hope College. Henry had her fair share of jobs before becoming a novelist, she tells. And my views on love and family and life and career, all of that is coming from real life observations." How Henry 'tripped sideways' into romance "But I think everything is coming from somewhere. "It’s not my life, it’s not me, the characters aren’t the people I know,” she says. ![]()
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