The novel is so much more personal and was initially hard for me to share. I blogged for 10 years and built a following of “fans” that I consider more like friends. Though Beautiful Wreck is my first novel, I have written two books about the craft of knitting and I write essays about craft for magazines or I self-publish them on my site. Larissa: Thank you so much for your kind words about my book and for interviewing me.

Your prose and your plot are wonderfully confident and strong. She graciously said yes.ĭabney: Beautiful Wreck is your debut novel. So, there was nothing for it but to ask Larissa Brown if she’d answer some questions for me. And, once I read it, I couldn’t stop wondering about it. (You can read Melanie’s DIK review here.) I loved this book. (That column is here.) The first one I chose was Melanie’s: Beautiful Wreck by Larissa Brown.

She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband Martin and son Sebastian, adorable loser-of-hand-made-hats.One of my goals for 2015 is to read all the romances my colleagues here at AAR picked as their choice for Best of 2014. She independently publishes her hand knitting designs. She reads speculative fiction, romance, historical fiction and craft books, and has a special love for knitting stitch dictionaries.Ī two-time craft author with STC Craft, Larissa has published books, articles and designs with a variety of knitting-related publications. She regularly posts photos of her #writingspot on Instagram to share the adventure of writing, and she is the proud owner of the addictive online generator What Does Your Hero Smell Like?Īn eclectic reader, Larissa's favorite book this year was A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic. Larissa is also the author of the novella Tress, a gothic horror fairytale love story.

So Wild A Dream is a two-book series, set in the same world, which will launch in 2016. Her first novel, Beautiful Wreck, is a time travel love story set in a fictional 10th century Iceland. Larissa writes epic love stories and creates dramatic designs for hand knitters.