Originally I was just really writing fanfiction set in academic settings, which I know sounds a little bit weird, but I think it's because I was in the last year of my PhD. At least, I feel like most of the authors that I talked to had been writing for a while, but I started in my late 20s. I got into writing fiction very, very late. I decided to go into neuroscience and ended up combining quantitative psychology and neuroscience because I still do a lot of stats stuff. I remember taking my first neurobiology class and being obsessed with the idea that the structure of our brain, of our nervous system, can influence the way we are able to process things the way we are. I remember being really young and already being interested about this whole wiring stuff - why are some people one way and other people another way? I always felt like I was a very anxious person, and I didn’t quite understand why I was worried about everything all the time and some of my friends weren’t. Here, Bookselling This Week talked about writing the book with Hazelwood.īookselling This Week: What inspired you to pursue a PhD in neuroscience and then incorporate your knowledge into writing contemporary romance?Īli Hazelwood: Growing up, I was just very interested in individual differences between people - why some people find some things really, really easy and others find them hard.

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