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Isabel keats It is the pseudonym behind which a graduate in Advertising from Madrid, married and mother of three girls, is behind. She is too one of the most recognized authors of romantic novels. With several awards of the genre such as the HQÑ digital with Start again, has also been a finalist for the 1st Harlequín Short Story Prize with The protector and also a finalist in the III Vergara-RNR Romantic Novel Contest with Embrace my darkness. He has already published almost a dozen novels and stories, some translated into English, German, Italian, Portuguese, French, Danish, Finnish and Swedish. In this interview He tells us about his latest novel, The Kenyan sky has another color. I thank you very much for your kindness and attention.
Elizabeth Keats. Interview
- LITERATURE CURRENT: Your latest novel is titled The Kenyan sky has another color. What do you tell us in it and where did the inspiration for the entire saga come from?
ISABEL KEATS: I had been wanting for a long time write a novel set in that country, following a trip I took there years ago and, suddenly, the time came to do it. First I imagined MJ, a pretty unbearable man, who has not had an easy life. A successful lawyer who, however, is completely out of his element in the Masai Mara reserve. On the other hand, I came up with the perfect protagonist to confront him: Beka, a lovely young woman, with too many economic problems and in love with that wild place where she lives, with its people, the incredible Maasai people and the wild creatures that populate it.
I wanted to write about two very different worlds that, as soon as they collide, sparks fly. I think readers will not be disappointed by this exciting mix of adventure, romantic comedy and drama in which both the main and secondary characters will suffer a profound transformation.
- AL: Can you remember any of your first readings? And the first thing you wrote?
IK: I learned to read with a comic titled Tarzanete and Bombón. It is a clear memory at a very young age. Then, throughout my childhood, I devoured the adventure novels, with their hints of romance, that my father had read in his: Sabatini, Salgari, Zane Gray…And the ones my older sisters read: The five, Malory Towers, Puck...
- AL: A leading author? You can choose more than one and from all periods.
IKE: Jane Austen, always. I could say many more, but I am an avid reader and the list would be endless.
Characters, customs and genres
- AL: What character would you have liked to meet and create?
IK: I always say that Hannibal Lecter, because it seems incredible to me to create such a creepy character and yet manage to make him attractive and even make you like him.
- AL: Any special habits or habits when it comes to writing or reading?
IK: None, I write anywhere, at any time and with any type of background noise.
- AL: And your preferred place and time to do it?
IK: I refer to my previous answer.
- AL: What other genres do you like?
IK: I like them more and more test and thriller.
- AL: What are you reading now? And writing?
IK: I'm reading a biography of Georgette Heyer, which for me is the undisputed queen of the English Regency novel. Alreadysame time I just finish a novel which has taken me a long time and which I will surely publish in September. I haven't started writing another one yet, although several ideas have already occurred to me.
- AL: How do you think the publishing scene is?
IK: The truth is that I don't know because I haven't published with a publisher in centuries, but I imagine it's difficult and confusing as always.
- AL: How do you feel about the current moment we live in?
IK: Well, the truth is that the world that current news reflects I'm quite lazy, but I imagine that has a lot to do with the fact that I'm getting older.