I feel like I should lie and say something like skydiving, but fact is I don’t have a ton of hobbies. What do you like to do when you’re not writing?.I hate writing so having a buddy helps a lot.

But I have been sprinting with friends where we both spend 25 minutes a pop writing at the same time. It varies because I still have a day job. I would start all these stories and never finish them.

When did you first realize you wanted to be an author?.

I’m not glamorous enough to play anyone else. So if I had to pick a character, maybe I’d play Tam, his assistant. I feel like I’d just want to do a quick cameo a la the legend Stan Lee.

If a director wanted to make Like A Sister into a movie and wanted you to act in it, who would you be and why?.

I’m not a writer who can draft multiple books a year. I finished the last draft in like March or April of 2021. We sold it on proposal (so it wasn’t finished) in July 2020. I purposely block out how long it takes me to write a book because then I’d never want to write another one.

How long did it take to draft the book?.

Mind you, I still did a lot of revision to the chapter but it still flowed. I found out she’d died from the New York Daily News. That opening paragraph: I found out my sister was back in New York from Instagram. I will say the easiest chapter to write was the first one. There’s a passage in the middle of the book that I love but it’s too spoilery to explain.

Which chapter was your favorite to write and why?.

But’s she’s a lot younger than me and she is way more petty than I could ever be (blank stare…) And I would never try to figure out why someone died. We also both tend to love and hate the Strong Black Woman idea. We have a similar sense of sarcastic humor. I guess I’ll be cliche and say my main character, Lena.

Which of the characters are you the most similar to in Like A Sister?.

My MC’s deceased sister is a hot mess.) But I was fascinated by how a glam reality star could go from partying it up in downtown Manhattan to dying alone in the Bronx. It’s not based on the actual woman who died. It was very similar to the headline you see in the first chapter of the book. I actually got the idea from a New York Daily News headline about a pregnant reality star found dead in the Bronx.

How did you come up with the story of Like A Sister?.

An Interview with Kellye Garrett, author of Like A Sister!

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