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Bella Andre Indie Pioneering Superstar
Known for “sensual, empowered stories enveloped in heady romance”, Bella Andre’ has sold more than 7 million copies, been #1 bestsellers around the world and have appeared on the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists 65 times. She has been the #1 Ranked Author at Amazon – on a top 10 list that included Nora Roberts, JK Rowling, James Patterson and Steven King.
If you like what you see you can become a patron for just a couple of dollars a month. You will also have access to bonus episodes and insider information. Go to http://www.patreon.com/Sarahwilliamsauthor
Transcript:
Sarah Williams: G’day, welcome to Write With Love. I’m Sarah Williams, and I’m recording live today from the Romance Writers of New Zealand conference in Auckland, and I have a very special guest which I’ve been telling you about for a year now that I’m gonna get to interview, and here she is, finally, in person, Bella Andre.
Sarah Williams: Thank you so much for joining me, I’m so excited!
Bella Andre: That was just great. I’m excited.
Sarah Williams: So this is going to an absolutely fantastic weekend, and you’ve been out traveling from America, so a few weeks down under so far?
Bella Andre: Yes, so we were in Australia, and we kind of bopped around. I actually have family in Sydney, so we spent some time with them and went into the Outback, which was super exciting as a Californian, so I sent an email to pretty much everybody I know that started with “Hello from the Outback”, so that was cool. And Great Barrier Reef, and came down the Sunshine Coast I think is where we were? And then beautiful New Zealand and the lovely Melanie Singh gave me a personal tour of Auckland, yesterday, which I’ve fallen in love with and I was joking she’s my new real estate agent. Sold!
Sarah Williams: That’s right, summer house in New Zealand.
Bella Andre: Exactly!
Sarah Williams: Sounds like a plan.
Bella Andre: That’s right.
Sarah Williams: So you’ve been in the industry for quite a while, and you were a pioneer in the ending days when Kindle was still feeling new and everything else. So explain in your own words, tell us about your journey so far.
Bella Andre: Well, my mom … let’s go way back. My mom was always a huge romance reader. I mean she read all pretty much mainstream fiction. I remember growing up and there was always the hardcover books from the library, and she kept a reading log. Which is interesting, I’ve never done that. I wonder if she still has them. So, huge reader and somewhere in there, I must’ve found romances, probably like 10, 11 and a book a day. And still, I’m almost a book a day still. It depends. I write a lot, but it sort of depends on my schedule. My reward for writing is reading. Love to read, still.
Bella Andre: I was a songwriter and a performer, so that was always what I thought I was gonna do. I was gonna go off and be a rockstar, and I did that until my mid-late twenties, and then I was like “Ugh, I’m too old for this”. So I hooked up with an old college friend who just basically said, and she had always wanted to be a romance writer, and she said “Oh I wanna go to this Romance Writers of America, and me being super nervous, go with me”, and so I was like “Okay”. And at that time I was just a reader. I wasn’t thinking I was gonna write then. I remember she said something about “Oh, I think maybe I can sell a book to Harlequin”.
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By Write with LoveKnown for “sensual, empowered stories enveloped in heady romance”, Bella Andre’ has sold more than 7 million copies, been #1 bestsellers around the world and have appeared on the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists 65 times. She has been the #1 Ranked Author at Amazon – on a top 10 list that included Nora Roberts, JK Rowling, James Patterson and Steven King.
If you like what you see you can become a patron for just a couple of dollars a month. You will also have access to bonus episodes and insider information. Go to http://www.patreon.com/Sarahwilliamsauthor
Transcript:
Sarah Williams: G’day, welcome to Write With Love. I’m Sarah Williams, and I’m recording live today from the Romance Writers of New Zealand conference in Auckland, and I have a very special guest which I’ve been telling you about for a year now that I’m gonna get to interview, and here she is, finally, in person, Bella Andre.
Sarah Williams: Thank you so much for joining me, I’m so excited!
Bella Andre: That was just great. I’m excited.
Sarah Williams: So this is going to an absolutely fantastic weekend, and you’ve been out traveling from America, so a few weeks down under so far?
Bella Andre: Yes, so we were in Australia, and we kind of bopped around. I actually have family in Sydney, so we spent some time with them and went into the Outback, which was super exciting as a Californian, so I sent an email to pretty much everybody I know that started with “Hello from the Outback”, so that was cool. And Great Barrier Reef, and came down the Sunshine Coast I think is where we were? And then beautiful New Zealand and the lovely Melanie Singh gave me a personal tour of Auckland, yesterday, which I’ve fallen in love with and I was joking she’s my new real estate agent. Sold!
Sarah Williams: That’s right, summer house in New Zealand.
Bella Andre: Exactly!
Sarah Williams: Sounds like a plan.
Bella Andre: That’s right.
Sarah Williams: So you’ve been in the industry for quite a while, and you were a pioneer in the ending days when Kindle was still feeling new and everything else. So explain in your own words, tell us about your journey so far.
Bella Andre: Well, my mom … let’s go way back. My mom was always a huge romance reader. I mean she read all pretty much mainstream fiction. I remember growing up and there was always the hardcover books from the library, and she kept a reading log. Which is interesting, I’ve never done that. I wonder if she still has them. So, huge reader and somewhere in there, I must’ve found romances, probably like 10, 11 and a book a day. And still, I’m almost a book a day still. It depends. I write a lot, but it sort of depends on my schedule. My reward for writing is reading. Love to read, still.
Bella Andre: I was a songwriter and a performer, so that was always what I thought I was gonna do. I was gonna go off and be a rockstar, and I did that until my mid-late twenties, and then I was like “Ugh, I’m too old for this”. So I hooked up with an old college friend who just basically said, and she had always wanted to be a romance writer, and she said “Oh I wanna go to this Romance Writers of America, and me being super nervous, go with me”, and so I was like “Okay”. And at that time I was just a reader. I wasn’t thinking I was gonna write then. I remember she said something about “Oh, I think maybe I can sell a book to Harlequin”.