EXCLUSIVE: Becky Ward, author of The Dance Deception, opens up about writing her feel-good rom-com and why she's a firm believer that it's never too late to pursue your dreams
Three questions were running through my mind on Boxing Day 2020… What is the bestselling novel of the last decade? What is the most watched series on TV? What would happen if I combined the raciness of one with the romance of the other and turned it into a book of my own? And with that, my first published novel, The Dance Deception, was born.
Time wise, it helped that I was single. But that wasn’t so handy when it came to writing some of the raunchier scenes. In the end a fully clothed male friend volunteered to act them out with me to make sure they were realistic! Back to the summer of 2020 and finally, seven months after starting The Dance Deception, I managed to complete the first draft. I was thrilled. But oh, the disappointment when I read it through. I still had faith in the premise of the book, but large parts of it were so clunky.
Once the contractual paperwork was out of the way, we set about editing one more time, tweaking and sharpening the copy until we were ready to pitch it to publishers in August 2022. I’ve been asked many times since if I ever got bored of reworking the same words over and over, but I can honestly say I never did. I wanted it to be the very best version of itself.
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