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On The Table Read Magazine, “the best book magazine in the UK“, author Georgie Gee talks about the inspiration behind her new erotic romance novel, The Fateful Text.
I interviewed romance author Georgie Gee about her life and career, what inspired her to write her new book, The Fateful Text, and her creative process.
I’m Georgie, until the lockdown I was a holistic health practitioner, exercise and lifestyle coach, I also did crystal and energy healing. I had taken that path and all its different facets in a bid to help myself manage a condition I was born with called Ehlers Danlos Syndrome Type 3, a condition that affects the connective tissues and can be very debilitating, I’d spent a lifetime in and out of hospital with multiple problems until I adopted a holistic lifestyle. Remedial exercise and diet had helped me greatly, but there was a noticeable change in my health, I was no longer managing my predictable symptoms, my symptoms were lessening substantially, and my quality of life had vastly improved, especially from a pain and vitality point of view.
I built my career around my own physical needs and did many different classes all around health and wellbeing. On the Sunday evening that Boris announced ‘No groups’ I had a full week, and by the Monday morning I’d lost 95% of my business, I always struggled with technology and so, missed the ‘zoom’ gravy boat.
Since then, I’ve had to move and was unable to establish myself in the area I moved to, nobody was doing very well and not taking any freelancers on. I’d made the mistake of investing a chunk of money in a crypto scheme called ‘Hyperverse’ who suddenly stopped paying out my money (which was covering my rent nicely) and I’ve never been able to get through to them since, so now I ‘ve ended up living in a van!
I have ADD and had spelling difficulties at school, for years. Right back when I was in my twenties, I wanted to write short romances, like Mills and Boon because I was always making up romantic scenarios in my head, I was a hopeless romantic, but I knew my English was very poor and just didn’t have the confidence to do it.
I was challenged to write it! I was with a good friend, chatting and I can’t remember the exact conversation but I can remember saying, “Oh, I could write a lovely book you know, it’s all up here”, tapping my head, to which she replied, “you’ve been telling me for the last 14 years you could write a lovely book, why don’t you go and write it?” The book wasn’t hard to do at all, it was just getting the confidence to do it.
I started writing The Fateful Text eight years ago. Only it was called “The Retreat’ then. I wrote the basic love story and showed it to a client who was an English teacher, she had no encouragement for it what-so-ever, so it went in a draw for years until the lockdown. While I was under house arrest, as I had nothing to do, I got it out, read it, and decided to start working on it again. I really enjoyed revisiting it and added some chapters. I then had some help with my English and spent most of last summer rewriting it, so it’s been a long time in the making.
I wrote it with an ‘intention’. I was so passionate about my journey to health and just how much of a difference it had made to my life, I was bursting with it, I wanted it ‘out there’. I’m also very passionate about cleaning up our planet, getting our soil healthy and living in harmony with Mother Earth. I had the idea to write it into a love story as a lighter, more entertaining way of getting it across, so I was writing about my favourite things, love and romance and health and wellbeing. It was a friend who had read it that suggested I write the appendix with the recipes.
My English, I’ve completely rewritten this novel last summer after a lovely lady offered to help me with my English.
She was based on me at that age.
The inciting incident in my book is when Lexi receives a text message from her husband that was clearlyintended for his lover.
The main conflict was how Lexi had to decide whether she should return home to try and make a go of it with her cheating husband or continue her romance with a man she had only just met but, also believed could be her soulmate.
I had the general story in my head, but a lot was added along the way.
I had two people read and check the spelling for me, then as I was about to publish it one of my friends called me and said it was still full of bad grammar and punctuation, so I then got help from a lovely lady who gave me her time and I ended up completely rewriting it.
If it’s in your heart to write a story, then you should follow your heart and do it.
I have been considering an autobiography paralleled with my holistic journey.
I am proud of what I’ve achieved, it’s taken a lot of work, and the process of publishing, was way out of my comfort zone. If it gives a bit of joy and helps our planet then it will be every bit worth the effort
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