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Lori Lansens was a successful screenwriter before she burst onto the literary scene in 2002 with her first novel Rush Home Road. Published in eleven countries, it received rave reviews around the world. Her follow-up novel The Girls was an international success as well. Rights were sold in 13 territories and it was a Richard & Judy book club pick in the UK, selling 300,000 copies. Her third novel The Wife's Tale is currently in development as a feature film.
Born and raised in Chatham, Ontario, Lori Lansens now makes her home in the Santa Monica Mountains with her husband and two children.
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As a novelist, I'm frequently asked where I get my ideas. The question is a
challenge for me because I don't really get ideas. I get characters. I have the
odd sense there's a world beyond this one where my fictional characters reside,
going about their dramatically rich lives until it's time for me to write their
stories. When it's time (such as determined by them — not me), I invite the
characters, though they sometimes come unbidden, to step through the curtain and
sit with me at the desk. "Reveal yourself," I instruct, while my fingers beat a
rhythm on the keyboard.
Rose and Ruby Darlen, the dual narrators of The Girls, didn't just step
through the curtain, though. They charged through it in all their brilliant
conjoined glory. But only after shouting at me from the window of their
ramshackle farmhouse. And waving madly from their spot on the bridge over the
creek. And screaming from Frankie's basement, where that unimaginable thing
happens.
My first novel, Rush Home Road, was launched just a few weeks before I
gave birth to my second child, a daughter. She came on the book tour with me, as
did my son, two and a half years old at the time. My little boy (who couldn't
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