Corinne Sullivan
Author Interview - Corinne Sullivan
Author of YOURS ALWAYS
Talia Danvers is an engineer for a high-end dating app who hasn’t managed to code her own love life. Then she reconnects with Townsend Fuller: the one who got away.
Or, more accurately, the one who left her for someone else. But Townsend swears he’s a changed man, and Talia wants to believe him. Even if he is the prime suspect in the disappearance of Amanda Reade, the same woman who broke them up in the first place.
In cases like these, it’s always the boyfriend. That’s what Amanda’s sister Kaitlyn thinks. So does Talia’s colleague Meera Ratnam―and she’ll risk everything to convince Talia that she’s making a deadly mistake.
Then Talia starts receiving menacing texts from Amanda. Suddenly, no one knows what to believe. Is Townsend guilty? Is Amanda alive? Or is someone playing games?
Featuring unreliable narrators and written with acid wit and creeping unease, Yours Always is a mind-bending tale of dangerous love.
Author Interview - Corinne Sullivan
Author I draw inspiration from:
Liz Moore, particularly 'Long Bright River.' The fraught, complicated relationship between Mickey and Kacey helped serve as inspiration for the relationship between Amanda and Kaitlyn in my own novel. Plus, few writers balance plot and prose quite as well as Moore, which is something I aspire to do with my own writing.
Author Interview - Corinne Sullivan | Author I Draw Inspiration From
Favorite place to read a book:
I love reading on a train. I've spent hours on the Metro-North Railroad heading out to Connecticut to see my parents, and I think there is no better place to get lost in a book.
Book character I’d like to be stuck in an elevator with:
Blue van Meer from Marisha Pessl's 'Special Topics in Calamity Physics.' Normally, getting stuck in an elevator with a 16-year-old film buff would be my nightmare, but I feel like I could listen to Blue wax poetic on any number of topics for hours.
Author Interview - Corinne Sullivan | Book Character I’d Like to be Stuck in an Elevator With
The moment I knew I wanted to become an author:
I've known since childhood that I wanted to write books, but I think my interest really bloomed in middle school, when I started writing my own book series (which I called The Girls of Greenwich Academy) based on similar series I enjoyed at the time, like Gossip Girl and The Clique.
Hardback, paperback, ebook or audiobook:
A paperback novel will aways be my preferred method of reading, with my one gripe being that they can easily become damaged in transit. I also enjoy the feeling of holding a hardcover novel—so long as it doesn't exceed 300 pages, as then it can become a bit cumbersome.
While I love listening to podcasts, my mind starts to drift when I listen to audiobooks (I'm a much better engaged reader than I am an engaged listener!), and though I've tried to get into ebooks many a time, it just doesn't beat the experience of reading a hardcover or paperback novel for me.
The last book I read:
Cursed Daughters' by Oyinkan Braithwaite. Her first novel, 'My Sister, the Serial Killer,' was one of my favorite novels of 2018, and while 'Cursed Daughters' is much more of a modern fable than a thriller, I found it just as captivating.
Author Interview - Corinne Sullivan | The Last Book I Read
Pen & paper or computer:
As much as I'd love to write longhand, 98 percent of my writing is done on a laptop. The other 2 percent is usually done in the Notes app on my phone at 3 in the morning when I get middle-of-the-night inspiration (to be decoded when I wake up).
Book character I think I’d be best friends with:
Even months after finishing 'I Hope This Finds You Well' by Natalie Sue, I'm still thinking about Jolene, whose dark humor and anxiety felt so real to me that, by the end of the book, Jolene seemed like a friend rather than a character.
Author Interview - Corinne Sullivan | Book Character I’d be Best Friends With
If I weren’t an author, I’d be a:
An interior designer. I have absolutely no eye for aesthetics/design, but perhaps if I had pursued it, I would!
Favorite decade in fashion history:
Anything but the 2000s. I still cringe things about the layered polo shirts and skinny jeans tucked into UGGs that I used to wear to high school.
Place I’d most like to travel:
Costa Rica. I love the idea of ditching my phone for a week and romping through a rainforest—but chances are, I'd be itching to check my email about 30 minutes.
My signature drink:
Rum (preferably Malibu) and pineapple juice. It's been my go-to for a decade and tastes like a vacation (even if I'm drinking it at a dive bar).
Favorite artist:
This answer is constantly depending changing on my mood and what I might discover on any given day, but at the moment: Gigi Perez. Her music just makes me feel all the things.
Number one on my bucket list:
I'd love to go on a wildlife safari in South Africa.
Anything else you'd like to add:
Thank you for all that you do, Ashley!!
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About Corinne Sullivan:
Corinne Sullivan
Corinne Sullivan is the senior news editor at Cosmopolitan, where she covers celebrity and entertainment news. She graduated from Boston College in 2014 with a degree in English and creative writing. She went on to receive her MFA in fiction from Sarah Lawrence College. Her stories have appeared in literary magazines such as Night Train, Knee-Jerk, and Pithead Chapel, among other publications, and her 2018 debut novel, Indecent, was included on several “best of” lists. Corinne lives with her family in Jersey City.
