Rachel Lacey
Rachel Lacey is an award-winning contemporary romance author and semi-reformed travel junkie. She's been climbed by a monkey on a mountain in Japan, gone scuba diving on the Great Barrier Reef, and camped out overnight in New York City for a chance to be an extra in a movie. These days, the majority of her adventures take place on the pages of the books she writes. She lives in the mountains of Vermont with her family and a variety of rescue pets, and she’s a passionate fangirl: she has attended hundreds of concerts, sitting anywhere from the last row to the front, and even backstage.
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Is there a genre of music that influences your writing/thinking? Do you listen to music while you write?
Pop music! I’ve always been a huge pop fan (my first concert was Olivia Newton-John when I was 5 haha!) There are so many songs about love and heartbreak and figuring yourself out – those vibes really help set the mood when I’m plotting and writing, and yes, I do have a “mood” playlist that plays softly on my laptop while I’m working. For a book like STARS COLLIDE, which is about two pop stars who fall in love, I was really heavily influenced by pop songs while I was writing, including Nothing New and The Lucky One by Taylor Swift, I Wish by Hayley Kiyoko, and On My Way by Jennifer Lopez.
Have you ever experienced Imposter Syndrome?
All. The. Time. I was that girl who never quite fit in at school, so outsider is my default setting. Add to that, I started out writing m/f romance before I switched to writing sapphic, so for a while I’d kind of lost one readership before I’d found a new set of readers…yeah, I’m very familiar with Imposter Syndrome, haha!
Vacation druthers… City or Rural destination? Why?
I love both, but since moving to a super rural area, I’ve been more drawn to city vacations! I miss the excitement of a city (in vacation-sized doses anyway.)
What brings you great joy?
When good things happen to good people! That may sound like a cliché, but lately, it seems like too often, the wrong people are getting ahead, so it brings me great joy to see deserving people come out on top. Also? Looking outside and seeing chipmunks frolicking in my yard, or my cat sunning in the window, or a rainbow in the sky. It’s the little things for me lately.
What piece of clothing tells the most interesting story about your life?
This may be an unusual answer, but I have this Old Navy black fleece jacket that’s been places. It’s seen me from my old home in North Carolina to my new home in Vermont (although it did not hold up to a Vermont winter, it’s been great for spring and fall.) It’s been with me on countless vacations around the world, and I was even wearing it when I met Gloria Estefan after a Broadway performance of her musical, On Your Feet. The stories that fleece could tell! Who knows where I’ll take it next?
