Kris Clink - Is Anyone Really Normal?

Sissie Klein is Completely Normal is Kris Clink’s standalone sequel to her first novel, Goodbye Lark Lovejoy. Both stories are part of Clink’s Enchanted Rock series and are set in Texas’ beautiful Hill Country. Sissie Klein is Completely Normal is centered around the title character Sissie, who was introduced to readers in the first novel. According to Clink, “I’d like to believe that we all have a story that’s of value that needs to be told and in writing Lark Lovejoy I had this character Sissie who appeared in two scenes… and as I started to write the next book about a completely different character, one that was far more obvious, I kept going back to Sissie and thinking about that woman who’s quietly sitting in the corner of the room that people are overlooking or they’re making assumptions about… what’s her story? And so I started kinda digging into her story and just like when you sit down and talk to someone you don’t know, I sat down and learned so much I didn’t know about Sissie as I was writing her story and it unraveled into something that, you know, I really, really enjoyed getting to know her.”

Throughout the interview, Clink talked about growing up in the Texas Panhandle and elaborated on the various Texas locations in her stories, including Fredricksburg and Gruene. She also explained how she became a full time author and described the process she goes through when writing. In regards to editing, she said, “that’s the part I love, because then you’ve got the story written and now you get to go in and do your wordsmithing and take the things where you said, you know, he looks like this, and put in great metaphors and imagery and so that’s a lot more fun.” As far as the genre of her novels, Clink would classify her books as contemporary fiction or women’s fiction, often with a romantic element. “I like putting romance in the books, I just don’t want to guarantee that…”