'The Undone' Series with Peyton Corinne

Now I would like to introduce a fabulous romance author where I'm pretty sure you have seen so many of her books on Bookstagram, BookTok, and in the store, Peyton Corrine. Peyton, how are you? I am so good. How are you? I'm great. So you are the mastermind behind the very popular and famous Undone series. But before we kind of take a look into those stories, tell us a little bit about who you are, where you're from, and what really sparked your interest into becoming an author? I have, well, I'm going to work backwards, honestly. So my name is Peyton and I'm an author of very angsty romances, but I've been telling stories probably since before I could write, like, you know, before I could read. I was like looking at picture books and telling everybody in my family what was happening in the story without actually knowing. So I think I like to think of myself as a permanent storyteller. It just took me a while to find exactly what I wanted to do with that. And books have always been important to me in that way. So, yeah, I'm from Florida. I'm originally from Alabama. I went to Auburn University, got a degree in writing and public relations. I was a teacher for a little while. I've kind of tried different careers out like ice cream flavors until I settled on this perfect, perfect job that I love so much. um my first book came out indie and kind of skyrocketed me to where I am now thanks to TikTok and Instagram and all my lovely readers who've been along with me for the last three years so it's it's been like a real journey I'm thrilled yeah and I love that we have similar stories because I used to take picture books before I really learned words and I would tell stories and my parents like that's not what's happening I'm like well in my brain that's what's happening so we're just gonna roll with the punches you know exactly exactly yeah and so what made you want to do romance out of all the many genres that we have when it comes to literature oh I just well I love romance I will read or watch anything if there is like a hint of romance like I love the John Wick movies but I'm obsessed with the way that this man loves his wife and she's barely a character i like i will grasp on to any any little bit of romance i was a hardcore shipper back in the day you know anything i watched i wanted two people to get together um but it's just always been innate in me everything i've written even when i was a kid was very like princess story telling love and then playing Barbies and having it be a romance and you know the My Scene movies if anybody knows that lore drop um that was my dream like i've always loved love i do think love in general and romance is such an innate human emotion that it's something no matter the genre everyone can relate to so i just i i think even if i were to branch to different sub genres i'll always be like a romance person tried and true yeah and i feel like romance is so broad because you could have like a thriller story that's still romance or how you mentioned like John Wick like he did all this because his wife that died gifted him a puppy and they killed the puppy and he just like went on that's true yearning right there exactly they need to bring that back in this generation bring back the yearning and so on the topic of romance you have a very like i said a very popular series that is the Undone series and so tell viewers if they're not familiar with it what's involved in these three books yeah okay so the Undone series is a series of books about this particular hockey team at a college so they're college romances they're all like 21 22 some of the stories span a lot longer they're interconnected standalone so you can read them individually but i do suggest that you read them in order for the most emotional impact because all of the characters are kind of woven into each other's lives the first two books Unsteady and Unloved take place at the same time. The first one has a lot to do with caretaking of younger siblings and anxiety and PTSD and things like that. The second book, Unloved, deals with grief and friendship and a really, really sweet, gentle, slow burn of friends to lovers. And then the last two books take place at the same time, but separately from the first two. The first two are the fall semester and the second two are the spring so you kind of you kind of live their last year of college together with this group of five or so individuals and you kind of get to see them grow so the Unbound is a dual timeline second chance romance takes place over three years and then Undone which comes out October 20th so literally Tuesday the final kind of wraps everything up it's very found family i think it's like a perfect ending and kind of a complete circle to the entire series so i'm now with this series would you like to see it adapted maybe into a series or do you think you could kind of see this kind of put into one big movie oh i think i'd want a tv series but i think it could be like two seasons the first two about the first group i don't know i feel like it would be very One Tree Hill of like there's so much going on and you're kind of following everyone I think you could mash all four books into one like long series so like two seasons would get through the whole thing if you really honed in it would be angsty you would cry you would laugh you would have a good time so I would say series over movie for sure and you would get all the feels that us that us romance lovers feel you know just on the big screen which which we always love and so you have the new one that is coming out on Tuesday what's next from you from you on the side of this like are there going to be more books are you going to do more standalones and other series yeah i'm working on something new no one really knows about it i've been super tight-lipped but i think i i've kind of left it at like the people who know me and who have been following me will probably be able to guess what i'm doing next it's a series it's a little less standalone than this one um it's still angsty it's still lonely people finding their their found family their home lots of interesting family dynamics all my favorite like things that I think are my tried and true tropes as an author you have the same thing again but it's a different setting entirely completely separate from my first one and a lot darker and I'm very excited a little bit of John Wick in there maybe you know with the dark perhaps I perhaps I mentioned that on purpose yeah you know well now I'm going to be watching like okay Peyton when's the book gonna be coming out you know I love it yes so Peyton before I let you go is there anything else that you would like to say to fellow book lovers out there um never stop finding new books uh read diversely find the right voices and you know there's so many books out there you I promise you will find the right one for you um and I hope that anyone that reads my series and picks it up feels really seen by my characters and know that you're like always always ready to be loved by other people. And it, you know, I just hope you find a home in that and in all books in general, but especially mine. Well, Peyton, thank you so much for what you're doing in the literary world and for taking the time to come and chat with me and fellow book lovers out there. We greatly appreciate it. Of course. Thank you so much for having me.