Inspired By…Karma Brown!

We are so thrilled to dedicate this week’s edition of Inspired By to Karma Brown, author of one of our Winter Reads Picks, Come Away With Me. Here, Karma shares the five books that inspired her most while writing and why…

Forever, Interrupted by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Like Tegan and Gabe in Come Away with Me, Elsie and Ben have a love story that’s hard to forget — one that will leave you smiling through your tears and holding the one you love a little tighter.

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

Though EAT, PRAY, LOVE is non-fiction, I thought about this book while writing Come Away with Me because it focuses on taking an emotional journey while also embarking on a physical one. And who doesn’t love a little armchair travel!

Little Bee by Chris Cleave

Little Bee, a young Nigerian refugee, and Sarah, a London mother and magazine editor share a horrifying and life-altering secret. Though a very different book, like Come Away with Me LITTLE BEE shows us that things are not always as they seem…

Me Before You by JoJo Moyes

A love story you hope has a happy ending but fear won’t, this book destroyed me in the best possible way and left me thinking about the characters long after I turned the last page – which is exactly what I hoped for with the characters in my own novel.

On Writing by Stephen King

Not fiction but all about the job of writing great stories, ON WRITING changed how I approached storytelling and is my go-to book for a refresher course every time I start a new novel.

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