Hi Melissa & thank you so much for stopping by to talk with us today! On to the questions...
~ Describe your book, The Fine Art of Truth or Dare, Twitter style(140 characters or less).
Great girl, cute boy. Dead boy. Fab friends. Art history. Art mystery. Pumpkin ravioli. Sharks.
~ You love music right? If you could pick a soundtrack to play along with your book what are a few songs, or a song, that you would put on it?
~ Must I Paint You a Picture – Billy Bragg
~ It’s Only Time – The Magnetic Fields
~ Mambo Italiano – Dean Martin
~ Let My Love Open the Door – Pete Townshend
~ Airplanes, Pt II – B.o.B feat. Eminem & Hayley Williams
~ Itchin’ on a Photograph – Grouplove
~ You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me – Dusty Springfield
~ The Way You Look Tonight – Frank Sinatra
~ Take on Me – A-ha
~ Tu vuo' fa' l'americano – Renato Carosone
~ Slight Figure of Speech – The Avett Brothers
~ I Can’t Make You Love Me – Bon Iver
~ Must I Paint You a Picture – Billy Bragg
~ It’s Only Time – The Magnetic Fields
~ Mambo Italiano – Dean Martin
~ Let My Love Open the Door – Pete Townshend
~ Airplanes, Pt II – B.o.B feat. Eminem & Hayley Williams
~ Itchin’ on a Photograph – Grouplove
~ You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me – Dusty Springfield
~ The Way You Look Tonight – Frank Sinatra
~ Take on Me – A-ha
~ Tu vuo' fa' l'americano – Renato Carosone
~ Slight Figure of Speech – The Avett Brothers
~ I Can’t Make You Love Me – Bon Iver
~ What is it like knowing other people will be reading your book?
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Fabulous and nerve wracking. I want people to read my books. I want lots and lots of people to read my books. But of course I don't want anyone to be disappointed. Life is too short and the literary backlist too long to read things you don't like!
~ If you could collaborate on a book with any other author(living or dead), who would you choose and why?
My knee-jerk response is to say Jane Austen. Love her incredibly clever prose and her lovely love stories and, maybe most of all, her often-caustic letters. But I also have a pretty good idea that she would have found me silly and frivolous and completely beneath her notice. So I might have to say Sheman Alexie, who I think is unequalled in funny-smart-poignant. Or Stephen Moffat (although it might have to be a script, which I do, too) for his combo of humor, sweetness, and outside-the-box quirk.
~ If you could magically teleport to any place/time right now, where/when would you go?
Mayfair, London, 1813. Byron was in Town, "Pride and Prejudice" had just been published, Turner was painting, fashion was uncomplicated and pretty.
~ Name 3 things on your desk right now.
Coffee. There is often coffee. A little plaster Weeping Angel from Doctor Who that my son made for me. A pair of Bjorg skull earrings that I adore, but keep taking out because they're heavier than they should be.
~ Name the most interesting thing you see right now.
We have a hermit crab. He's usually pretty subdued during the winter, but at the moment, he's doing some crazy acrobatics over his food dish. Lots of bizarre limbs going in all different directions.
Is there anything else you'd like to add? The floor...erm, well, the metaphorical blog-ish floor is yours!
Yes. Please please please, folks, support your local independent booksellers! You absolutely don't have to buy my stuff! Buy something by John Green or Sara Zarr or Sherman Alexie or L. Frank Baum or Jane Austen. We need to keep brick-and-mortar bookstores alive. We need to keep reading alive. If you're reading this, you probably feel the way I do: Books are kinda like the people you love. You could live without them if you had to, but if you didn't have to, why on earth would you even try?
I grew up in San Francisco, which gave me a love of fog and funny-colored houses. My mother is an amazing watercolorist, my father an architect. I can’t draw. Never could. But I always loved telling stories (occasionally of the sort involving passing Vegetable Fairies and disappearing sweet potatoes at dinnertime). I read lots of pretty wonderful books as a kid, but haven’t been quite the same since I was fourteen and my English teacher handed me a copy of Pride and Prejudice. I still want to be Elizabeth Bennet when I grow up. Elizabeth Bennet with a career and jeans, anyway. My husband got a second date by telling me he had once played Mr. Darcy on stage. There would have been a second date, in any case, but still… MORE
this book sounds cute..great interview!
ReplyDeleteIt does sound like a cute book. Glad you liked the interview! =)
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