Susann Julieva

It starts with a vague idea. Maybe it's a character, or a certain setting. Maybe it's just a story title. Then I try to work out who the main characters are. I spend a lot of time on that, because to me the characters are at the centre of every story. The plot comes second, and it's determined by what motivates the characters. Once I know where I want the story to go, I just write, and see where that takes me. I've found that mapping out every chapter first and going into too much detail before I start to write limits the creative process. I often let my characters take me down different roads than originally planned. It can turn out to be quite an adventure!

The story behind For Me, It's You is that a friend and I talked about how sometimes, no matter how much time passes, there will always be that one guy you never really got over. Maybe ten years have passed since you last met, and things didn't work out between you then. But you just know that if he showed up right now you'd be willing to give it another shot. That made me want to write a story about two people reconnecting and falling in love again, and that's what this book is about.