She’s
baaaaaack. Thanks to fellow blogger and
literary genius, Crystal Collier, the Compulsive Creator, I have been tagged
for The Next Big Blog Hop. To be
completely honest, I considered pretending like I’d dropped off the face of the
earth. But, while I am feeling pretty
reclusive lately, I am NOT a party poop.
So, I will gladly play along and answer the ten questions about my most
current WIP (or re-WIP).
1. What
is the working title of your book?
THE PATH
THROUGH THE MIST
2. Where did the idea come from for the book?
My personal move from L.A. to
the rural west of Ireland. (Write what
ya know, right?)
3. What genre does your
book fall under?
YA Time-Slip (slips between historical and contemporary)
4. Which
actors would you choose to play your characters in a movie rendition?
Hmmm . . . maybe:
In the 5th Century: Kaya Scodelario and Liam Hemsworth
In the Present: Hailee
Steinfeld and Landon Liboiron
5. What
is the one-sentence synopsis of your book?
A teenager, miserable about moving to rural Ireland from Southern
California, discovers her past life on a remote lake island.
6. Will
your book be self-published or represented by an agency?
Please, dear God, deliver unto
me an agency.
7. How
long did it take you to write the first draft of your manuscript?
Um, well, if you include all the research, and interviewing old people who know
about the past and unpacking and acclimating myself to my new home and having
to buy and get used to a new computer after my old one died . . . three
years. Is that a run-on sentence?
8. What
other books would you compare this story to within your genre?
It’s THE MISTS OF AVALON meets WEST SIDE STORY.
9. Who or What inspired you to write this book?
Spirits from the past. I get visits from
dead people. Sometimes they stay for
lunch. Leave their ideas behind, that
sort of thing.
10. What else about your book might pique the reader’s interest?
Have you ever found yourself in a new place and just known things? Things you
shouldn’t know, like where things are you’ve never seen or even heard of? Or people’s names or place names? There are a lot of possible explanations for
knowing the unknowable. This story
explores one of them.
And to:
L.G.Smith at http://bardsandprophets.blogspot.com/
Dianne Salerni at http://diannesalerni.blogspot.com/
and
Serena Lawless at http://www.solawless.com/
I say, ‘Tag,
you’re it!"
