Paullina Simons's latest novel is The Tiger Catcher (The End of Forever Saga).From her Q&A with Deborah Kalb:
Q: How did you come up with the idea for The Tiger Catcher, and for your characters Julian and Josephine?Visit Paullina Simons's website.
A: This story came from the same place that all my others have come. I simply had an idea.
In this case, the idea was about a man who loved a woman so much he bridged time and space to find her. I didn’t realize at first it was going to be this huge. But after about a year of writing and thinking about it, I knew. It just kept growing.
The Tiger Catcher is a love story of Julian and Josephine, set in Los Angeles and London. He is on his second or third career, living in the land of dreams for sale, and searching for someone to change his life. She is a stage actress, shuffling between New York and L.A. working toward her big break. When they fall in love, it’s like a fairytale, because they fall in love in paradise.
Unfortunately, Josephine is not what she pretends to be. This causes a fracture in the foundation on which Julian has built his life and destroys the hopes on which he built his future. The Tiger Catcher is the story of the love, of that fracture and its aftermath, and what both Julian and Josephine must do as...[read on]
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