“I made it my mission to get it done,” she said.įrom there it was a long process as Sommerville learned about the business of getting a book published. She said it’s easy to think you can write a novel, but to think it could be published and be in bookstores is a major motivator and that confirmation from her class pushed Sommerville to finish it. Sommerville was taking a writing course at the University of Toronto and shared her first chapter of her novel with the class and everyone really liked it. “When I went on my second maternity leave, I found the time to finish a lot of it.”ĭuring that second maternity leave, she was also convinced that IF I LOSE HER could really be published. “It was a fun project I had, but it wasn’t a priority and I didn’t have time for it,” Sommerville said. While she started the novel during her first maternity leave, she didn’t finish it until her second maternity leave was ending in 2021.Īfter her first maternity leave, she had about a third of the novel done when she went back to work, but as she got busy with work, she got away from working on the book. “That was when I really developed the story of the main character,” she said. Sommerville found solace in journaling, which inspired some of the early chapters of her new novel coming out on March 5, IF I LOSE HER. At the same time, she was struggling with postpartum anxiety. However, in 2018, when she went on maternity leave and was longing to flex her creative muscle. She began doing a lot of spoken word poetry and attending open mic nights and she wrote a play that was produced by the school.Īfter graduation, she ended up going into communications and got away from creative writing as she pursued her professional career. But her love of reading and writing led her to Queen’s University where she studied English literature. In Grade 12, she even began writing a novel before her computer crashed and she lost everything - luckily she says it wasn’t very good. She always had a creative side that involved doing plays with the children at her mother’s at-home daycare, and when she got to high school, there was a creative writing course that sparked her love of fiction. Growing up, being an author was a pipe dream for Newmarket’s Brianne Sommerville.
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