The Authorized Version

Today I'm doing a blog exchange with K. Dawn Byrd. K. Dawn is a multi-published author who writes romance, romantic suspense, historical, and young adult fiction. She's an avid blogger and interviews authors who give away several books per week on her blog at www.kdawnbyrd.blogspot.com. If you're the winner of a book, be sure and ask the author to sign it for you. So when you finish here, hope on over to her blog to read my interview and enter the drawing for A Darkly Hidden Truth. 

When she's not reading or writing, K. Dawn enjoys spending time with her husband of 16 years. Their favorite evening consists of a leisurely walk beside a gorgeous lake near their home while plotting the next story waiting to be told. 

Donna: K. Dawn, tell us about your new Zoe Mack series. What is the central concept of the series? The theme of your first book The Secret of the Love Letter?

The young adult market is challenging to write for because they expect characters to be real. They expect characters they can relate to and situations that are believable. Young adults are smart and they know when an author is trying to pull something over on them. With my first book, Mistaken Identity, which was a young adult romance, it took me a while to get the voice right. That was a little bit of a challenge, but I must have done something right because several young adults have emailed to say that certain characters in the book reminded them of friends or acquaintances.