DL White Talks A Thin Line

**What inspired you to write A Thin Line?**

I read so many books about a woman who has to do so much work to get a man to notice her or to “be worthy”. I wanted to write about a man who had a lot of work to do, who, for reasons only known between those two characters, had a lot to make up for, who wasn’t afraid to do that work to get his woman back. I also really like banter and drama and conflict, and this book just made me happy. Every fight, every argument, every glare was a reason to make the reconciliation that much more delicious.

**Can you tell us a little bit about the characters in A Thin Line?**

A Thin Line is about Angie (Evangeline) Blake and Preston Reid, who fell in love as kids and teens, broke up over a super petty reason and then rode that horse for the next two decades. Since they never really had closure, the tension between them has been tight—and sine their best friends are now engaged, they are roped into working together to put on a fun, memorable, romantic event. Without fighting. Which isn’t going to happen.

If you had to do it all over again, would you change anything in your latest book?

Nope. A Thin Line is perfect. It’s exactly the way I wanted it to come out and if no one else likes it, I love it.

Did you learn anything during the writing of your recent book?

Don’t bow to what you think people want. Don’t sell yourself or your story short. Tell the story that your characters ask you to tell. The whole story, the way you want to tell it.

If you could spend time with a character from your book whom would it be? And what would you do during that day?

Actually, probably Jackie and Matt. Matt is a great cook and Jackie just seems so happy and free. I imagine her kind of like Sinclair from Living Single. Just a tall happy gorgeous funny woman whose man loves her to the ends of the earth.

Are your characters based off real people or did they all come entirely from your imagination?

These people are from my brain, but probably inspired by real or fictional people.

Do your characters seem to hijack the story or do you feel like you have the reigns of the story?

I’ve stopped subscribing to “my characters wanted to do this or that”. I’m just not that precious about it. It’s all in my brain. If the story changes, it changes because I wanted to go in a different direction. I am always in control, but I can turn on a dime.

About A Thin Line

A Thin Line by DL White
Genre: Romance

Synopsis

Angie Blake and Preston Reid are oil and water, fire and ice. Whether it’s in the courtroom, where they’re always in opposition, or in their personal lives, they don’t mix.

Nearly two decades have passed since they were high school sweethearts and split in an emotional firestorm, but their best friends are dating, and now engaged so they haven’t had a moment’s peace from each other. And they won’t get one since the soon to be newlyweds have roped Angie and Preston into planning their destination wedding. They’ve been tasked with organizing the most romantic, memorable event of their lives without tearing apart the lifelong foursome in the process.

Angie and Preston are wise to this game. This clever ploy to push them back together in the hopes that their long-dead romance will rekindle couldn’t possibly work.

Could it?

There’s a thin line between love and hate.

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About the Author

DL White is an Atlanta based author of women’s fiction and romance, centering Black men and women. She began seriously pursuing a writing career in 2011.

She has a deep and abiding love for coffee and Sunday Brunch, especially on a patio, but her true obsession is water— lakes, rivers, oceans, waterfalls.

By day she is an Executive Administrative Assistant for a billion dollar beverage brand. By night, when not writing books, she devours them and blogs reviews and thoughts on writing at BooksbyDLWhite.com.