07 Jun 2018
Alethea Kontis: Meant To Be
I’ve always said: Some things are meant to be, and some things are meant to be great stories.
The question most recently posed to the lagoon was this: When did you decide to write romance?
A great question, but one I wasn’t sure how to answer. Because my answer is: always.
My first true love was poetry. As a child, I loved Ogden Nash and Gelett Burgess and Lewis Carroll. My Greek grandmother sang songs to us, recited nursery rhymes, and even wrote a few poems herself. My French grandmother had a few books in her meager library, including Favorite Poems, Old and New and The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling. And Shakespeare! Who could forget Shakespeare?
I loved the words and the rhymes. I loved the verbal trickery and subversive turns of phrase. I loved that so much could be conveyed with so little. And I loved that poets LOVED, people, places and…
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