I decided to collect all my interviews to date in one easy post, so that those with burning questions can more easily have them answered. If you still have a burning question… well, you can always ask!
“What was your first reaction upon seeing the cover?” Find out at… LiyanaLand
“If there was one thing about Gwen’s life that you’d like to have in your own life, what would it be? What about the one thing about her life that you’d NEVER want to have?” Find out at… Free Book Friday Teens
“Gwen is torn between two guys in OTHER, her longtime boyfriend Zack, and Tavian, ‘a sexy Japanese fox-spirit.’ How important was it for you to have two love interests representing Gwen’s Other and human sides?” Find out at…All Things Urban Fantasy
“So Gwen, you’re a shifter, right? What exactly does that mean? Can you take any form you want?” Find out at…The Story Siren
“What is the best writing advice you can offer an aspiring writer?” Find out at…The Elevensies with Angela Cerrito
“Any dos and don’ts about werewolves you’d like to share? Top tips?” Find out at… Sarwat Chadda’s blog
“Would you ever consider getting fangs or a special tat to show some wolfy love?” Find out at…Wolfy Chicks
“Who is your fictional character crush on?” Find out at… Jordan Deen’s blog
“The last book that made you cry?” Find out at…Jen Nadol’s Book Briefs
“How did you come up with the idea?” Find out at… Flux Twinsies with Danielle Joseph
“Another thing that amazes me is that your debut year coincided with your last year of college. Yikes! What was it like juggling books and revisions with a full-time college schedule?” Find out at…The Enchanted Inkpot
“If Hollywood made a movie about your life, whom would you like to see play the lead role as you/Why?” Find out at… Sensational 7 Q & A with Fantastic Book Review
“OTHER has a real mixture of supernatural/paranormal races in it. Was it hard to balance writing about pooka, werewolves, dryads and Japanese fox-spirits? How did you approach the process, and did you have to do a lot of research?” Find out at… Karen Mahoney’s blog
Guess what? Tomorrow, July 1, is a two-book birthday: Other by yours truly, and Indigo Blues by Danielle Joseph! We’re both Flux authors–and therefore Flux twinsies–who got to hang out at ALA. Danielle and I also concocted some fun book birthday questions for each other. Here are mine, and here are hers:
1. Quick! Elevator pitch for Indigo Blues. You have 15 seconds…
Timer set…Adam and Indigo break up, she wants to move on. He’s not ready and writes a hit song about her. Song makes it big. Really big. And now he’s famous, she not so much. The story is told in both their voices about how they deal with being thrust into the limelight. Buzz..time up!
2. What’s the craziest book you could ever see yourself writing?
A cookbook! And the first item would be Wonder bread surprise balls. Basically my friend Kimberly and I filled the bread with all sorts of toppings, rolled it into a ball and then put them into the toaster oven. You didn’t know if you were eating the chocolate-filled one or the tuna-filled one since it was a surpriseJ.
3. What’s your silliest writing habit? I wish I could say it was standing on my head and reciting the alphabet backwards but it’s more about sitting down, hoping for peace and quiet and then typing away!
First word you associate with each word below:
Pizza. Staple Food.
Pixies. A band from the early 90’s that I used to listen too.
Potatoes. Mr. Potato Head, used to have one of those.
Patchwork. A quilt, would love to make one but since I got a C+ on the bag I made in 7th grade I don’t think that’s such a good idea.
Pookas. I never knew about pookas until I met the one you made and now I want oneJ!
Now, write a story out of those five words! (Kidding… but if you dare…)
How about a tongue twister: The pooka penetrated the pixie’s patchwork palace and pirated all her potatoes and pizza. Now say that five times fast!
Thanks so much for stopping by, Danielle, and Happy Book Birthday!
Dying to know more about how the cover for Other came to be? Want to read the first five pages, never before released in all their glory? (ahem) Well, now’s your chance! Get thee over to LiyanaLand! and read!
