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May 29, 2013
@KevinSwarbrick 'Deliciously Scandalous Blog Tour'. My fifth guest is the awesome author, Dawn Torrens 31/5/13
I would like to thank the you the readers for enjoying my, 'Deliciously Scandalous Blog Tour' and also for the fantastic support you have all shown. You will be pleased to know my fifth guest is the awesome author, Dawn Torrens :) This really is another great interview that's not to be missed.... 'Giggles'
My whole inspiration behind these interviews ;)
'Passion' is available on Kindle and will be in paperback soon :) Amazon UK http://amzn.to/1aAIGE9 Amazon US http://amzn.to/15jHHHm
@KevinSwarbrick 'Deliciously Scandalous Blog Tour' Interviewing author Dawn Torrens.Once again another awesome interview. Coming Soon, this Friday 31/5/13!Join me and Dawn in my very own, huge virtual studio once again ;)!
You can also catch all my guests on Facebook :) https://www.facebook.com/KevinSwarbrickDeliciouslyScandalousBlogTour?ref=hl
My whole inspiration behind these interviews ;)
'Passion' is available on Kindle and will be in paperback soon :) Amazon UK http://amzn.to/1aAIGE9 Amazon US http://amzn.to/15jHHHm
@KevinSwarbrick 'Deliciously Scandalous Blog Tour' Interviewing author Dawn Torrens.Once again another awesome interview. Coming Soon, this Friday 31/5/13!Join me and Dawn in my very own, huge virtual studio once again ;)!
You can also catch all my guests on Facebook :) https://www.facebook.com/KevinSwarbrickDeliciouslyScandalousBlogTour?ref=hl
May 26, 2013
A start!: @KevinSwarbrick 'Deliciously Scandalous blog Tour'...
A start!: @KevinSwarbrick 'Deliciously Scandalous blog Tour'...: First I would like to thank the readers for enjoying this, 'Deliciously Scandalous Blog Tour'. My fourth guest is the awesome author Eri Nelson who is just running a little late, but Eri did warn me this might happen. I has left this introduction by Eri for you to read, I just hope she arrives here soon!
May 23, 2013
The awesome author Eri Nelson, being interviewed @KevinSwarbrick 'Deliciously Scandalous Blog Tour'
First I would like to thank the readers for enjoying this, 'Deliciously Scandalous Blog Tour'. Here is a little recap what this tour is all about... I wanted them to be different and unique, I wanted to do an interview that puts the authors mind to the test, I also wanted to show the reader how great their creative minds are.
I want these interviews to be funny, sexy and just basically kept real, I don’t want the author holding back thinking ‘Should I write this?’ The whole idea of these interviews is to take the authors mind in a whole new direction and to also give the reader a taste of the authors personality. I have many great authors lined up to take this challenge and to put their minds to the test. I know you agree by reading these post that the authors have been fantastic, its a pleasure and a honour to have them on this tour.
My next guest is the awesome author Eri Nelson who is just running a little late, but Eri did warn me this might happen. I has left this introduction by Eri for you to read, I just hope she arrives here soon! Here goes and fingers crossed.....
Eri Nelson is a nontraditional indie author who manages all areas of her fiction, fantasy, paranormal, action, adventure and sometimes-erotic writing.Eri handles all the groundwork of her books, even the editing. Because of this, Eri strives to improve her abilities along with trying to explain to readers her far from traditional sentence structures.
However, she will openly admit that typos follow her. Join Erin and her shadowy side of writing as she takes you along to explore new desire hunger filled worlds where your mind can share in the heat of the read.
Hey good to see you, I was just saying; very nice bio indeed Eri and welcome to my tour :)
I wouldn't worry about a typos, for me it's what the story contains and not on a comma being out, and so on ;) I hope you have some fun on this tour. Let's see how you get on with the questions; I know you are a very busy lady and I don't want to keep you too long.
Sometimes in life we all want more than what we have, but if you had one wish to have anything or anyone, what would that wish be and why?
Wishes, wow... I often spout off “I wish”. I guess it is easy to do so for there are no consequences for doing so. However, when those wishes come closer to reality I am always looking for the downside. (lol)
I guess in the darkness of night and when I have no fears of being overheard it would be that wine never runs out and cigars can be easily found. (lol) Because you know I am far being any role model. (wicked smile)
I would like you to make a short story up using no more than 500 words containing every one of these 14 key words; Leg, Truck, Cat, Cup, Window, Dog poo, Eyes, Sex, Shoe, Lamp, Ring, Poem, Spoon, DM!
It ached, wretchedly so. His leg would never be same and he knew as he acted there would be consequences. However, as the truck was beginning to pull away with her inside he had no choice. Damn their fight and her silly need to possess a cat, she was his and he could never let that just drive away. Perhaps his cupwould never be full of every whim he felt that should be but at least he knew that it would never be totally empty as long as he had her.
As the battered vehicle’s windowroll down two things struck him hard. Her eyes expressing volumes to just hitting him and the sour smell of dog pooemanating from the truck’s confines. It would seem that he and she alone werenot the only ones shocked to what had just happen. Apparently the dog who dropped his favourite shoe to the floor boards had expressed his surprise as well.
With smells failing away to the moment he stood staring with memories of their passion and the sexthat had fallen aside to their fast harsh spoken words. They acted so quickly that a lamp had been broken, a ring was tossed aside, and a poem that had once been written with love’s quick hand wasthrown aside. He had expected her to spoon to his words not for it all to end as it had...
You did great with the story Eri, you used all the word's other than DM. You never got the question wrong because, DM is an abbreviation and not a word. Even using the 13 words you did pass the test with flying colours. I loved the story.
When I first started writing, I had a lot of negative people around me, I know I had to lose that energy in order to continue writing and fulfilling what others thought I couldn't do. Did you ever experience any of this when you first started writing or were you lucky enough to have the right support around you?
My husband was a true vocal point for me. Always pushing me to go forward with something that I had never done before but had truly wished to do. Therefore, I can honestly say I never encountered any negative salutations until I made mywork open to the public.
Work for me comes in a non-traditional form so it should have been no surprise that negative commentary would follow at times. Although, for me it was especially since at the time I did not know I had expressed any far from traditional wording. Course as time grew on the astonishment lessened and I found myself embracing my rhythm to words.
That's sounds great Eri, I would like to thank your husband for pushing you forward or I wouldn't be here now chatting with you. I know in the time I have known you, you're always pushing others forward and I do admire that and that's one huge thing we have in common, the drive to push others forward, and to achieve what they never knew they could; a lot like me and my situation, but let's not go there...
If you had a chance to run any country and make a difference, what county would it be and why?
I can honestly say I would have no wish to rule any country. I have enough problems running my hermit realm. (lol)
Valuing a trip to far off lands or a state or two over is not something totally foreign to me. Although I much prefer home and my hermit ways. Course even this small island of abode is far beyond me to run (lol). At least completely.... (wickedsmile)
'Giggles', I like the sound of being a hermit. The outside world can be a very wicked place at times and so can adobe!! (I'm still learning)
What would you say the worse thing a reader has ever said to you and what was your reaction?
As authors we often share our work with our peers and some time ago it was this other author who tore through me like no other.
After purchasing our books we parted on an even tone and a few weeks later I produced a review for a YA that truthfully was not something I would ever pick up. However, I was trying to show support and move from my comfort reading zone. Therefore I gave her a caring review based on my knowledge of the work that goes into the undertaking of writing. Although, admittedly the series would not be something I would reach for again based on the fact that it is a YA and again not something I would dive into. Course this is something I would not indulge for I do not feel that ill reviews are productive. For me if I found the book totally beyond any completion by my far from perfect eyes, I would just never have reviewed it.
Following my review I received an email from the author who told me they could not do a review for me based on the fact that my writing was far from traditional and although she felt my story line was good did not want to lower my ratings on any review site. I was floored by her response for I had never asked for a praising review. In fact I know that my work is subject to critics, as all ourwork is. Therefore I never expected a praising review since our genres were very different and was a point I had expressed in the beginning. As well as my far from traditional approach.
I guess the reason it threw me was the fact that I stay clear on one point.... and that is support. We as authors should support each other. This doesn’t mean give a false review but perhaps a helpful insight that can help each other grow.... Ultimately we can never achieve this if we are so quick to tear down the hopes of another.
I understand what you're saying. Constructive criticism is always the best way and anything else has to go over the head. Every author is far from the same, and no matter what there is always going to be critics, nasty ones we can all do with out. There is a way of wording something you don't like without being offensive. Speaking of offensive, Giggles'....
I would like you to vision yourself walking down a busy high street with your partner and suddenly there was a noise that came from his bottom and people turned around looking at you, what would your reaction be and why?
This is not something I have to envision for it has happened to me. (lol) Typically I just keep on walking like I know nothing has happened. (wicked grin)
That has never happened, I must have been eating the wrong foods, sometimes they have to come out. You know what they say; better a empty house than an angry tenant lol
Use only two words that would describe you?
Unorthodox, Driven
Strong morals and beliefs, but yet also fun and outgoing with a soul that's driven to help others! You have picked two great words to describe you.
8, Have you ever been…
A, The owner of a lonely heart
B. The owner of a broken heart
C. None of the above?
If the answer is C, please can you tell the reader how you have done it, I can see the reader would be interested to know that one, I know I am.
If you are talking about a love of your life feeling then I would have to say C. This is only because I met Jeff, my husband, very early in my life. Therefore I have found myself blessed for the past 21 years.
Now that's the first answer that has been c and you're very lucky that you have not been blessed with those broken hearts, they are very damaging and can leave you with one confused head.... But they make you stronger :)
It's time for a little fun, I would like you to do the rhyme ‘Jack and Jill’. Using your own words and without holding back.
......... < Tapping fingers on the desk isn't going to speed things up, 'Giggles' If you don't know that ryhme then let me help you out... 'Kev's Style'...
Mark and Louie went up to the hill to grab a pint from the pub,
Mark slipped down and broke his crown and Louie got stuck in the mud! 'Just saying' ;)!
know I should stop the Louie Jokes, but I can't help getting it in! No one will understand unless they read my work, it's not a sales pitch... 'Just saying' :)
Where my mind is running on the wicked side here, I would like to ask you...
When you are writing, do you ever think, 'Erm me and my partner did that once, that has to go into the story?
I can honestly say that a blank screen allows me to go where I have never been before. I mean ultimately that is the fun of it for me. (wink)
Blank screens sound great, I wish I had some of them lol If you could be a Musical instrument, what would you be and why?
An almost silent hum on a breeze. For there is no more beautiful sound that an almost silent song straining to be heard. Now that's beautiful :) .................................... Sorry I tried that myself then, I was embarrassing the silence then, and you're right, that ten seconds silence was lovely, I'm going to try for twenty seconds now, bear with me ........................................... No!! I didn't make it to twenty seconds, the voices in my head started rowing! I best just continue with the next question and ignore them ;) If you could change one thing about you as a person, what would that one thing be? I like who I am so I think I would just change my clothes now and again.... (lol)
I will toast to that. You're awesome and you have no need to change, it doesn't matter to much about your clothes if you're a hermit, I have days where I am in my birthday suit all day with my laptop writing and writing. Them are good days when I can relax and not worry about the world. I haven't had them days for a long time, infact them days only exist when I'm having a bath. I take my hat of towards you :)
I know we all remember our first kiss, would you say Yours was a good experience or a bad one? Please explain why.
Since I met my husband all the rest have fallen to the waste side.
I don't even know why I asked you that question... 'Slowly giving my head a wobble'.
Do you ever remember a part in your life that’s made a huge impact on you as a person. If so what was it and why?......................................................................... Ok I am getting the silent treatment along with a cheeky grin again and rolling back eyes! The answer is your husband isn't it 'Giggles', lets move on with the last qestion :)
Can you tell the reader about your latest work and also tell the reader where they can find you.
Presently I am working on the Scent Of Power, the second in the Isabella (Izzy) Tulley & Aiden Black Series. This will hopefully be out this coming 2013 summer. Next up is the fourth in the DHC which won’t release until winter 2013.As always, you can find me on www.dearharts.com, which holds all mysocial media outlets as well as all my ramblings and book trailers (yeah).
Coming Summer
Coming Winter 2013 www.dearharts.comThank you so much Kevin for allowing me this time with you and your readers. I am totally honored.
Don't be silly, It's me who should be thanking you. Like my other authors I have interviewed, It has been a pleasure and a lot of fun having you here and I know my readers will agree :) I wish you all the success life has to offer you and never change who you are. You're a wonderful lady Eri and the honor is mine, I just hope you feel the same once it goes live ;)
Time will tell, util next week, have a wonderful weekend and we both hope you have all enjoyed this interview as much as we enjoyed writing it :)
@KevinSwarbrick 'Deliciously Scandalous blog Tour' Interviewing the awesome author, Eri Nelson
First I would like to thank the readers for enjoying this, 'Deliciously Scandalous Blog Tour'. Here is a little recap what this tour is all about... I wanted them to be different and unique, I wanted to do an interview that puts the authors mind to the test, I also wanted to show the reader how great their creative minds are.
I want these interviews to be funny, sexy and just basically kept real, I don’t want the author holding back thinking ‘Should I write this?’ The whole idea of these interviews is to take the authors mind in a whole new direction and to also give the reader a taste of the authors personality. I have many great authors lined up to take this challenge and to put their minds to the test. I know you agree by reading these post that the authors have been fantastic, its a pleasure and a honour to have them on this tour.
My next guest is the awesome author Eri Nelson who is just running a little late, but Eri did warn me this might happen. I has left this introduction by Eri for you to read, I just hope she arrives here soon! Here goes and fingers crossed.....
Eri Nelson is a nontraditional indie author who manages all areas of her fiction, fantasy, paranormal, action, adventure and sometimes-erotic writing.Eri handles all the groundwork of her books, even the editing. Because of this, Eri strives to improve her abilities along with trying to explain to readers her far from traditional sentence structures.
However, she will openly admit that typos follow her. Join Erin and her shadowy side of writing as she takes you along to explore new desire hunger filled worlds where your mind can share in the heat of the read.
Hey good to see you, I was just saying; very nice bio indeed Eri and welcome to my tour :)
I wouldn't worry about a typos, for me it's what the story contains and not on a comma being out, and so on ;) I hope you have some fun on this tour. Let's see how you get on with the questions; I know you are a very busy lady and I don't want to keep you too long.
Sometimes in life we all want more than what we have, but if you had one wish to have anything or anyone, what would that wish be and why?
Wishes, wow... I often spout off “I wish”. I guess it is easy to do so for there are no consequences for doing so. However, when those wishes come closer to reality I am always looking for the downside. (lol)
I guess in the darkness of night and when I have no fears of being overheard it would be that wine never runs out and cigars can be easily found. (lol) Because you know I am far being any role model. (wicked smile)
I would like you to make a short story up using no more than 500 words containing every one of these 14 key words; Leg, Truck, Cat, Cup, Window, Dog poo, Eyes, Sex, Shoe, Lamp, Ring, Poem, Spoon, DM!
It ached, wretchedly so. His leg would never be same and he knew as he acted there would be consequences. However, as the truck was beginning to pull away with her inside he had no choice. Damn their fight and her silly need to possess a cat, she was his and he could never let that just drive away. Perhaps his cupwould never be full of every whim he felt that should be but at least he knew that it would never be totally empty as long as he had her.
As the battered vehicle’s windowroll down two things struck him hard. Her eyes expressing volumes to just hitting him and the sour smell of dog pooemanating from the truck’s confines. It would seem that he and she alone werenot the only ones shocked to what had just happen. Apparently the dog who dropped his favourite shoe to the floor boards had expressed his surprise as well.
With smells failing away to the moment he stood staring with memories of their passion and the sexthat had fallen aside to their fast harsh spoken words. They acted so quickly that a lamp had been broken, a ring was tossed aside, and a poem that had once been written with love’s quick hand wasthrown aside. He had expected her to spoon to his words not for it all to end as it had...
You did great with the story Eri, you used all the word's other than DM. You never got the question wrong because, DM is an abbreviation and not a word. Even using the 13 words you did pass the test with flying colours. I loved the story.
When I first started writing, I had a lot of negative people around me, I know I had to lose that energy in order to continue writing and fulfilling what others thought I couldn't do. Did you ever experience any of this when you first started writing or were you lucky enough to have the right support around you?
My husband was a true vocal point for me. Always pushing me to go forward with something that I had never done before but had truly wished to do. Therefore, I can honestly say I never encountered any negative salutations until I made mywork open to the public.
Work for me comes in a non-traditional form so it should have been no surprise that negative commentary would follow at times. Although, for me it was especially since at the time I did not know I had expressed any far from traditional wording. Course as time grew on the astonishment lessened and I found myself embracing my rhythm to words.
That's sounds great Eri, I would like to thank your husband for pushing you forward or I wouldn't be here now chatting with you. I know in the time I have known you, you're always pushing others forward and I do admire that and that's one huge thing we have in common, the drive to push others forward, and to achieve what they never knew they could; a lot like me and my situation, but let's not go there...
If you had a chance to run any country and make a difference, what county would it be and why?
I can honestly say I would have no wish to rule any country. I have enough problems running my hermit realm. (lol)
Valuing a trip to far off lands or a state or two over is not something totally foreign to me. Although I much prefer home and my hermit ways. Course even this small island of abode is far beyond me to run (lol). At least completely.... (wickedsmile)
'Giggles', I like the sound of being a hermit. The outside world can be a very wicked place at times and so can adobe!! (I'm still learning)
What would you say the worse thing a reader has ever said to you and what was your reaction?
As authors we often share our work with our peers and some time ago it was this other author who tore through me like no other.
After purchasing our books we parted on an even tone and a few weeks later I produced a review for a YA that truthfully was not something I would ever pick up. However, I was trying to show support and move from my comfort reading zone. Therefore I gave her a caring review based on my knowledge of the work that goes into the undertaking of writing. Although, admittedly the series would not be something I would reach for again based on the fact that it is a YA and again not something I would dive into. Course this is something I would not indulge for I do not feel that ill reviews are productive. For me if I found the book totally beyond any completion by my far from perfect eyes, I would just never have reviewed it.
Following my review I received an email from the author who told me they could not do a review for me based on the fact that my writing was far from traditional and although she felt my story line was good did not want to lower my ratings on any review site. I was floored by her response for I had never asked for a praising review. In fact I know that my work is subject to critics, as all ourwork is. Therefore I never expected a praising review since our genres were very different and was a point I had expressed in the beginning. As well as my far from traditional approach.
I guess the reason it threw me was the fact that I stay clear on one point.... and that is support. We as authors should support each other. This doesn’t mean give a false review but perhaps a helpful insight that can help each other grow.... Ultimately we can never achieve this if we are so quick to tear down the hopes of another.
I understand what you're saying. Constructive criticism is always the best way and anything else has to go over the head. Every author is far from the same, and no matter what there is always going to be critics, nasty ones we can all do with out. There is a way of wording something you don't like without being offensive. Speaking of offensive, Giggles'....
I would like you to vision yourself walking down a busy high street with your partner and suddenly there was a noise that came from his bottom and people turned around looking at you, what would your reaction be and why?
This is not something I have to envision for it has happened to me. (lol) Typically I just keep on walking like I know nothing has happened. (wicked grin)
That has never happened, I must have been eating the wrong foods, sometimes they have to come out. You know what they say; better a empty house than an angry tenant lol
Use only two words that would describe you?
Unorthodox, Driven
Strong morals and beliefs, but yet also fun and outgoing with a soul that's driven to help others! You have picked two great words to describe you.
8, Have you ever been…
A, The owner of a lonely heart
B. The owner of a broken heart
C. None of the above?
If the answer is C, please can you tell the reader how you have done it, I can see the reader would be interested to know that one, I know I am.
If you are talking about a love of your life feeling then I would have to say C. This is only because I met Jeff, my husband, very early in my life. Therefore I have found myself blessed for the past 21 years.
Now that's the first answer that has been c and you're very lucky that you have not been blessed with those broken hearts, they are very damaging and can leave you with one confused head.... But they make you stronger :)
It's time for a little fun, I would like you to do the rhyme ‘Jack and Jill’. Using your own words and without holding back.
......... < Tapping fingers on the desk isn't going to speed things up, 'Giggles' If you don't know that ryhme then let me help you out... 'Kev's Style'...
Mark and Louie went up to the hill to grab a pint from the pub,
Mark slipped down and broke his crown and Louie got stuck in the mud! 'Just saying' ;)!
I know I should stop the Louie Jokes, but I can't help getting it in! No one will understand unless they read my work, it's not a sales pitch... 'Just saying' :)
Where my mind is running on the wicked side here, I would like to ask you...
When you are writing, do you ever think, 'Erm me and my partner did that once, that has to go into the story?
I can honestly say that a blank screen allows me to go where I have never been before. I mean ultimately that is the fun of it for me. (wink)
Blank screens sound great, I wish I had some of them lol If you could be a Musical instrument, what would you be and why?
An almost silent hum on a breeze. For there is no more beautiful sound that an almost silent song straining to be heard. Now that's beautiful :) .................................... Sorry I tried that myself then, I was embarrassing the silence then, and you're right, that ten seconds silence was lovely, I'm going to try for twenty seconds now, bear with me ........................................... No!! I didn't make it to twenty seconds, the voices in my head started rowing! I best just continue with the next question and ignore them ;) If you could change one thing about you as a person, what would that one thing be? I like who I am so I think I would just change my clothes now and again.... (lol)
I will toast to that. You're awesome and you have no need to change, it doesn't matter to much about your clothes if you're a hermit, I have days where I am in my birthday suit all day with my laptop writing and writing. Them are good days when I can relax and not worry about the world. I haven't had them days for a long time, infact them days only exist when I'm having a bath. I take my hat of towards you :)
I know we all remember our first kiss, would you say Yours was a good experience or a bad one? Please explain why. Since I met my husband all the rest have fallen to the waste side.
I don't even know why I asked you that question... 'Slowly giving my head a wobble'.
Do you ever remember a part in your life that’s made a huge impact on you as a person. If so what was it and why?......................................................................... Ok I am getting the silent treatment along with a cheeky grin again and rolling back eyes! The answer is your husband isn't it 'Giggles', lets move on with the last qestion :)
Can you tell the reader about your latest work and also tell the reader where they can find you.
Presently I am working on the Scent Of Power, the second in the Isabella (Izzy) Tulley & Aiden Black Series. This will hopefully be out this coming 2013 summer. Next up is the fourth in the DHC which won’t release until winter 2013.
As always, you can find me on www.dearharts.com, which holds all mysocial media outlets as well as all my ramblings and book trailers (yeah).
Coming Summer
Coming Winter 2013 www.dearharts.comThank you so much Kevin for allowing me this time with you and your readers. I am totally honored.
Don't be silly, It's me who should be thanking you. Like my other authors I have interviewed, It has been a pleasure and a lot of fun having you here and I know my readers will agree :) I wish you all the success life has to offer you and never change who you are. You're a wonderful lady Eri and the honor is mine, I just hope you feel the same once it goes live ;)
Time will tell, util next week, have a wonderful weekend and we both hope you have all enjoyed this interview as much as we enjoyed writing it :)
@KevinSwarbrick 'Deliciously Scandulous blog Tour' Interviewing the awesome author, Eri Nelson
First I would like to thank the readers for enjoying this, 'Deliciously Scandalous Blog Tour'. Here is a little recap what this tour is all about... I wanted them to be different and unique, I wanted to do an interview that puts the authors mind to the test, I also wanted to show the reader how great their creative minds are.
I want these interviews to be funny, sexy and just basically kept real, I don’t want the author holding back thinking ‘Should I write this?’ The whole idea of these interviews is to take the authors mind in a whole new direction and to also give the reader a taste of the authors personality. I have many great authors lined up to take this challenge and to put their minds to the test. I know you agree by reading these post that the authors have been fantastic, its a pleasure and a honour to have them on this tour.
My next guest is the awesome author Eri Nelson who is just running a little late, but Eri did warn me this might happen. I has left this introduction by Eri for you to read, I just hope she arrives here soon! Here goes and fingers crossed.....
Eri Nelson is a nontraditional indie author who manages all areas of her fiction, fantasy, paranormal, action, adventure and sometimes-erotic writing.Eri handles all the groundwork of her books, even the editing. Because of this, Eri strives to improve her abilities along with trying to explain to readers her far from traditional sentence structures.
However, she will openly admit that typos follow her. Join Erin and her shadowy side of writing as she takes you along to explore new desire hunger filled worlds where your mind can share in the heat of the read.
Hey good to see you, I was just saying; very nice bio indeed Eri and welcome to my tour :)
I wouldn't worry about a typos, for me it's what the story contains and not on a comma being out, and so on ;) I hope you have some fun on this tour. Let's see how you get on with the questions; I know you are a very busy lady and I don't want to keep you too long.
Sometimes in life we all want more than what we have, but if you had one wish to have anything or anyone, what would that wish be and why?
Wishes, wow... I often spout off “I wish”. I guess it is easy to do so for there are no consequences for doing so. However, when those wishes come closer to reality I am always looking for the downside. (lol)
I guess in the darkness of night and when I have no fears of being overheard it would be that wine never runs out and cigars can be easily found. (lol) Because you know I am far being any role model. (wicked smile)
I would like you to make a short story up using no more than 500 words containing every one of these 14 key words; Leg, Truck, Cat, Cup, Window, Dog poo, Eyes, Sex, Shoe, Lamp, Ring, Poem, Spoon, DM!
It ached, wretchedly so. His leg would never be same and he knew as he acted there would be consequences. However, as the truck was beginning to pull away with her inside he had no choice. Damn their fight and her silly need to possess a cat, she was his and he could never let that just drive away. Perhaps his cupwould never be full of every whim he felt that should be but at least he knew that it would never be totally empty as long as he had her.
As the battered vehicle’s windowroll down two things struck him hard. Her eyes expressing volumes to just hitting him and the sour smell of dog pooemanating from the truck’s confines. It would seem that he and she alone werenot the only ones shocked to what had just happen. Apparently the dog who dropped his favourite shoe to the floor boards had expressed his surprise as well.
With smells failing away to the moment he stood staring with memories of their passion and the sexthat had fallen aside to their fast harsh spoken words. They acted so quickly that a lamp had been broken, a ring was tossed aside, and a poem that had once been written with love’s quick hand wasthrown aside. He had expected her to spoon to his words not for it all to end as it had...
You did great with the story Eri, you used all the word's other than DM. You never got the question wrong because, DM is an abbreviation and not a word. Even using the 13 words you did pass the test with flying colours. I loved the story.
When I first started writing, I had a lot of negative people around me, I know I had to lose that energy in order to continue writing and fulfilling what others thought I couldn't do. Did you ever experience any of this when you first started writing or were you lucky enough to have the right support around you?
My husband was a true vocal point for me. Always pushing me to go forward with something that I had never done before but had truly wished to do. Therefore, I can honestly say I never encountered any negative salutations until I made mywork open to the public.
Work for me comes in a non-traditional form so it should have been no surprise that negative commentary would follow at times. Although, for me it was especially since at the time I did not know I had expressed any far from traditional wording. Course as time grew on the astonishment lessened and I found myself embracing my rhythm to words.
That's sounds great Eri, I would like to thank your husband for pushing you forward or I wouldn't be here now chatting with you. I know in the time I have known you, you're always pushing others forward and I do admire that and that's one huge thing we have in common, the drive to push others forward, and to achieve what they never knew they could; a lot like me and my situation, but let's not go there...
If you had a chance to run any country and make a difference, what county would it be and why?
I can honestly say I would have no wish to rule any country. I have enough problems running my hermit realm. (lol)
Valuing a trip to far off lands or a state or two over is not something totally foreign to me. Although I much prefer home and my hermit ways. Course even this small island of abode is far beyond me to run (lol). At least completely.... (wickedsmile)
'Giggles', I like the sound of being a hermit. The outside world can be a very wicked place at times and so can adobe!! (I'm still learning)
What would you say the worse thing a reader has ever said to you and what was your reaction?
As authors we often share our work with our peers and some time ago it was this other author who tore through me like no other.
After purchasing our books we parted on an even tone and a few weeks later I produced a review for a YA that truthfully was not something I would ever pick up. However, I was trying to show support and move from my comfort reading zone. Therefore I gave her a caring review based on my knowledge of the work that goes into the undertaking of writing. Although, admittedly the series would not be something I would reach for again based on the fact that it is a YA and again not something I would dive into. Course this is something I would not indulge for I do not feel that ill reviews are productive. For me if I found the book totally beyond any completion by my far from perfect eyes, I would just never have reviewed it.
Following my review I received an email from the author who told me they could not do a review for me based on the fact that my writing was far from traditional and although she felt my story line was good did not want to lower my ratings on any review site. I was floored by her response for I had never asked for a praising review. In fact I know that my work is subject to critics, as all ourwork is. Therefore I never expected a praising review since our genres were very different and was a point I had expressed in the beginning. As well as my far from traditional approach.
I guess the reason it threw me was the fact that I stay clear on one point.... and that is support. We as authors should support each other. This doesn’t mean give a false review but perhaps a helpful insight that can help each other grow.... Ultimately we can never achieve this if we are so quick to tear down the hopes of another.
I understand what you're saying. Constructive criticism is always the best way and anything else has to go over the head. Every author is far from the same, and no matter what there is always going to be critics, nasty ones we can all do with out. There is a way of wording something you don't like without being offensive. Speaking of offensive, Giggles'....
I would like you to vision yourself walking down a busy high street with your partner and suddenly there was a noise that came from his bottom and people turned around looking at you, what would your reaction be and why?
This is not something I have to envision for it has happened to me. (lol) Typically I just keep on walking like I know nothing has happened. (wicked grin)
That has never happened, I must have been eating the wrong foods, sometimes they have to come out. You know what they say; better a empty house than an angry tenant lol
Use only two words that would describe you?
Unorthodox, Driven
Strong morals and beliefs, but yet also fun and outgoing with a soul that's driven to help others! You have picked two great words to describe you.
8, Have you ever been…
A, The owner of a lonely heart
B. The owner of a broken heart
C. None of the above?
If the answer is C, please can you tell the reader how you have done it, I can see the reader would be interested to know that one, I know I am.
If you are talking about a love of your life feeling then I would have to say C. This is only because I met Jeff, my husband, very early in my life. Therefore I have found myself blessed for the past 21 years.
Now that's the first answer that has been c and you're very lucky that you have not been blessed with those broken hearts, they are very damaging and can leave you with one confused head.... But they make you stronger :)
It's time for a little fun, I would like you to do the rhyme ‘Jack and Jill’. Using your own words and without holding back.
......... < Tapping fingers on the desk isn't going to speed things up, 'Giggles' If you don't know that ryhme then let me help you out... 'Kev's Style'...
Mark and Louie went up to the hill to grab a pint from the pub,
Mark slipped down and broke his crown and Louie got stuck in the mud! 'Just saying' ;)!
I know I should stop the Louie Jokes, but I can't help getting it in! No one will understand unless they read my work, it's not a sales pitch... 'Just saying' :)
Where my mind is running on the wicked side here, I would like to ask you...
When you are writing, do you ever think, 'Erm me and my partner did that once, that has to go into the story?
I can honestly say that a blank screen allows me to go where I have never been before. I mean ultimately that is the fun of it for me. (wink)
Blank screens sound great, I wish I had some of them lol If you could be a Musical instrument, what would you be and why?
An almost silent hum on a breeze. For there is no more beautiful sound that an almost silent song straining to be heard. Now that's beautiful :) .................................... Sorry I tried that myself then, I was embarrassing the silence then, and you're right, that ten seconds silence was lovely, I'm going to try for twenty seconds now, bear with me ........................................... No!! I didn't make it to twenty seconds, the voices in my head started rowing! I best just continue with the next question and ignore them ;) If you could change one thing about you as a person, what would that one thing be? I like who I am so I think I would just change my clothes now and again.... (lol)
I will toast to that. You're awesome and you have no need to change, it doesn't matter to much about your clothes if you're a hermit, I have days where I am in my birthday suit all day with my laptop writing and writing. Them are good days when I can relax and not worry about the world. I haven't had them days for a long time, infact them days only exist when I'm having a bath. I take my hat of towards you :)
I know we all remember our first kiss, would you say Yours was a good experience or a bad one? Please explain why. Since I met my husband all the rest have fallen to the waste side.
I don't even know why I asked you that question... 'Slowly giving my head a wobble'.
Do you ever remember a part in your life that’s made a huge impact on you as a person. If so what was it and why?......................................................................... Ok I am getting the silent treatment along with a cheeky grin again and rolling back eyes! The answer is your husband isn't it 'Giggles', lets move on with the last qestion :)
Can you tell the reader about your latest work and also tell the reader where they can find you.
Presently I am working on the Scent Of Power, the second in the Isabella (Izzy) Tulley & Aiden Black Series. This will hopefully be out this coming 2013 summer. Next up is the fourth in the DHC which won’t release until winter 2013.
As always, you can find me on www.dearharts.com, which holds all mysocial media outlets as well as all my ramblings and book trailers (yeah).
Coming Summer
Coming Winter 2013 www.dearharts.comThank you so much Kevin for allowing me this time with you and your readers. I am totally honored.
Don't be silly, It's me who should be thanking you. Like my other authors I have interviewed, It has been a pleasure and a lot of fun having you here and I know my readers will agree :) I wish you all the success life has to offer you and never change who you are. You're a wonderful lady Eri and the honor is mine, I just hope you feel the same once it goes live ;)
Time will tell, util next week, have a wonderful weekend and we both hope you have all enjoyed this interview as much as we enjoyed writing it :)
May 20, 2013
@KevinSwarbrick 'Deliciously Scandalous Blog Tour' Interviewing author Eri Nelson 24/5/13 :)
@KevinSwarbrick 'Deliciously Scandalous Blog Tour' Interviewing author Eri Nelson.Once again another awesome interview. Coming Soon, this Friday 24/5/13!!Join me and Eri Nelson in my very own, huge virtual studio ;)!
My inspiration and the whole idea behind these interviews, came from my story, 'Passion'. In other words; me and my writing ;)!!
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May 16, 2013
The awesome author, Seumas Gallacher, @KevinSwarbrick 'Deliciously Scandulous blog Tour'
Thank you all for joining me and my wonderful guest on my blogspot. Just a little recap to remind you what the interviews are about... I wanted these interviews to be different and unique. I want them each to have their own individuality to match the author's personality who do participate.
I want to do an interview that put the author's mind to the test and also to show the readers how awesome their creative minds actually are when put on the spot.. This is a little more than just an interview, with great stories and fun questions along with fun answers, this is one blogspot that should hit the right spot... if you have a sense of humour :) Let's see how my third guess, Seumas Gallacher get's along. I will let Seumas introduce himself...
Website http://www.seumasgallacher.wordpress.com
An Authorial Icon-In-Waiting, Seumas Gallacher, at the age of 97 ½, has come a tad late to the quill-scraping fraternity, but has been blessed with astonishing support for his first two novels and was even voted ‘Blogger of the Year’ (it’s amazing what a bit of champagne and chocolate biscuits bribery can achieve). Born in the Govan Docklands area in Glasgow, this modern-day Steinbeck-Child-Clancy has moved around the world, mostly to escape the clutches of a posse of probation officers and Interpol. The Far East, and now the Middle East, has had to bear his company for the past 33 years. He’s now trying to figure out how to make ten million dollars from guesting on blogsites like this one…
Nice Bio for a 97 year old lol, I can see the fun has started alredy... Thank you for the brief introduction, Seumas, I won't even ask if you are wearing any, just as long as you let your mind hang out on this interview then we're all safe... Wait a minute doesn't a man have two minds!! Use your top one please Seumas, and I hope by doing so, you get to make that million dollars from being a guest on my blogspot. Its nice to know you for spot talent! 'Giggles' let's see how you can answer these questions and also thanks again for being here :)
Its my pleasure to be here
Sometimes in life, we all want more than what we can have, but if you had one wish to have anything or anyone, what would that wish be and why?
I strongly believe that everything that's happened in my life to date was necessary to sculpt me into what I am now... so, I'd change NUTHIN. (I can imagine my old Philosopher chum, Plato, turning in his crypt.
I agree with what you're saying; Ive been sculpted with life and I am who I am :)
I would like you to make a short story up using no more than 500 words, containing every one of these 14 key words; Tube, Swing, Cube, Dog Poo, Blood, Window, Dad, Car, Sex, Limp, Job, Grass, Nite, DM!
Sometimes your luck can play daft games with you. I was in my car on the way to an audition two days ago. I needed the job badly. You know how it is when you have to limp by day by day with hardly enough left in the wallet to buy even a tube of toothpaste. The play being cast was ‘The Nite of the Cube’, a weirdmodernistic production from an old playwright, probably as ancient as my Dad. I thought I’d just swing by the theatre early, maybe get some kudos for looking keen. I parked my battered Vauxhall at the side of the building, next to the sex parlour that abuts the place, sent a DM to my agent to tell him where I was, and clambered out, flicking the electronic key to lock the doors. What I failed to notice from the car window, hidden in the grass verge was a pile of dog poo. The result was catastrophic. Head over heels I went in a vaguesimulation of a drunken frog. The body blows were bad enough, but the blood streaming from my nose spattered down my best white shirt.
Still half-dazed, and decidedly shaken, not stirred, I tottered into the auditorium. An instant scream pierced the morning quiet. “He looks perfect! Get his name, now!” The utterance from the casting chief amazed me, until it was explained they needed to fill the walking corpse part. They congratulated me on thinking so well ahead and thought it neat that I could be so clever. To ‘come in character part’.
The first night is tomorrow week, but I can’t think where to find a load of more dog poo. We real actors value our immersion in the role, you know.
You sure passed that question with flying colours! Great story Seuams and like my other guest you have made that question look very easy, you even used the word dog poo twice :)
When I first started writing, I had a lot of negative people around me, I know I had to lose that energy in order to continue writing and fulfilling what others thought I couldn’t do. Did you ever experience any of this when you first started writing or were you lucky enough to have the right support around you?
I seem to have discovered the ability to shut out the external noise. Besides, I have a personal thing about there only being two kinds of day… Good Days and Better Days. It’s difficult for Negative Nellies to get to me.
I can relate to that, I have only just started learning over the years how to shake off that negative. If people can't be happy for you, then they're not meant to be a part of you. I'm youngish and I am not 97 'giggles', I still have a lot of learning to do, but that is one thing I have learned, is to shake off negativity, it's the best way to move forward. Speaking of forward lets move on...
If you had a chance to run any country and make to make a difference, what country would that be and why?
I’d love to be the Wizard Gandalf with the Magic Wand to transform the lives of the general populace in the Philippines. The country is blessed with the most joyful, laughing, singing, dancing, good-natured folks imaginable, but counterpointed with natural and man-made disasters on a regular scale. They deserve better fortune.
I can relate to that, but if you had a magic wand you wouldn't need to be on my blog spot trying to make a million dollars. I'll be borrowing that wand and having a pint with you... Don't forget who your friends are :)
What would you say the worse thing a reader has ever said to you, and what was your reaction?
The earliest negative review I received was from some guy who gave THE VIOLIN MAN’S LEGACY two stars out of five. The dagger-through-the-heart feeling was palpable. I then checked the only other review this guy had done. It was on John Grisham. He gave him one star out of five! From that time forward, I try to treat the bulk of reviews with a huge barrel of salt.
I thought we had already discussed negative energy, I'm just glad you have moved on from that now. I know when I received one 2 star review, I felt the same as you, but then reality kicks in, 'what does it matter' you're going to get people that like your work and then your going to get people that it doesn't appeal to, same old saying, 'you can't please them all.'
I would like you to vision yourself walking down a busy high street with a partner or a friend, and suddenly there was a noise that came from your their bottom and the public turned around looking at you, what would your reaction be and why?
I’d laugh my head off. I’m squarely in Billy Connolly’s court with this stuff. Bodily functions are normal, and the surprise is what makes us giggle. Farting should be franchised I say.
'Giggles', I just had a vision then, of you and your friends's in that room next to Billy Connolly standing around drinking whisky with all the kilts lifting up with gushes of wind coming from your backsides, a bit like that film... what's it called again it's an old classic... 'Blazing Saddles' that's the one, you know where they're all sat round a camp fire eating beans, I think you know the rest,. Take that vision and I think it could be another great comedy stretch depending on how it's done of course :)
Use only two words that would describe you?
Irreverent. Positive.
The first word certainly sums you up and I can see where the positive comes into play, I just hope you go easy on me after this interview goes live :)
8, Have you ever been…
A, The owner of a lonely heart
B. The owner of a broken heart
C. None of the above?
If the answer is C, please can you tell the reader how you have done it, I can see the reader would being interested to know that one, I know I am.
A and B, several times over.
Sorry to hear that, Seumas. I know how those hearts can hurt! This is the third interview and they have all been the owner of a broken heart, but not several time's, mind you! My answer to that would be 5 times so far, but I've not reached several times just yet, who know's what tomorrow brings!
It's time for a little fun, I would like you to do the rhyme ‘Humpty Dumpty’. Using your own words and without holding back.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall,
All the King’s horses, and all the Kings men
Had scrambled eggs for breakfast.
... And then amen! I meant a little like this ' Kev's Style'
Kevin Swarbrick flat on his backKevin Swarbrick never looked backAll the women and all men were really surprised when Louie was bigger than them with the women shouting out 'Amen'... Anyone who has read my novel 'Passion' will know who Louie is, I just had to get that one in, 'Giggles'
When you are writing, do you ever think, 'Erm me and my partner did that once, that has to go into the story?
Only once? Hardly. You’ve got to practice some stuff a lot to write about it with authority.
'Giggles' That's why I'm so good at it, now that explains a lot :)If you could be a Musical instrument, which one would you be and why?
Violin. It’s an instrument that can evoke the entire range of human emotions. ( And some of them are worth a lot of money, so I’d also change my name to ‘Seumas Stradivarius’.)
Seumas Stadivarius, now that's a great name :) I don't think I could be any Musical instrument that has strings, people have played with my strings for far too long, but I am glad they have now or I wouldn't be the person I am today ;)
If you could change one thing about you as a person, what would that one thing be?NUTHIN.. see answer #1 above. Happy with the product as is.
I will toast to that :)
I know we all remember our first kiss, would you say you had a good experience or a bad one? Please explain why.Good experience. We must have been all of 4 years old. Early starters in Govan, we were. Sunday School Christmas party. Postman’s Knock, Children’s kissy-kissy game. Mostly intended I think to embarrass kids to the delight of their fellows.
Bloody hell! 4 years old for your first kiss, I can remember a lot of my life, but I can't remember when I was four, that's just a blur. It must be my age ;)!
Do you ever remember a part in your life that made a huge impact on you as a person. If so what was it and why?
Loads of them. Growing up as a teenager, working in the Scottish Hebrides after leaving home at 15. Six years there, among great characters and the most friendly, generous people I’ve ever known has left a legacy with me.
Happy memories with great friends are always the best. I am lucky to have some awesome friends that I've known since my teens too. Those friends are the best, they have stuck by me all those years and they're going nowhere, they're there for the good times and the bad. Now thouse kind of friends are priceless and are hard to come by. Who inspired you to write or was it always a dream to be an author?
It just occurred to me about four years ago that it ‘was time’ to eventually write ‘the novel’ that everybody’s supposed to have in them. The passion for the whole nine yards of the process from writing, toediting, to publishing, to marketing, to social networking, that has developed in this short space of time leads to me know I should have started decades ago.I am glad you decided to write, sometime's you do have to let it all hang out as you know 'Giddles' really though what a better way to do that than putting it all into words. It's a lot of hard work that's for sure and I hope I am doing my part to help you all to be noticed that little bit more. I won't keep you as I know you have to go, but before you do I would Like to say thank you for coming along on my blog tour and for being such a great sport. You did great on this test, but your rhyming needs a lot of work 'Giggles'. I wish you all the best for the future. I hope you find that wand too. Before you go...Can you tell the reader about your latest work and also, where they can find you.
The Work in Progress is SAVAGE PAYBACK. It’s populated with the same characters as the first two novels (and there’s at least another two to follow this one). It spins around the ex-SAS officers who now run their own specialist security firm. When international criminal gangs and drug lords come across their bows, they revert to their black ops personae to sort them out.
The second book is VENGEANCE WEARS BLACK, and I’ll post thelinks for that here, so that the gasping readers don’t have to wait until I finish SAVAGE PAYBACK….
US http://amzn.to/UK
UK http://amzn.to/13yV1YX
Canada http://amzn.to/14gODEZ
Website http://www.seumasgallacher.wordpress.cGoodreads,
Goodreads http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5242668.Seumas_Gallacher
Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/seumasgallacher?ref=tn_tnmn
Twitter, @seumasgallacherBlog Page, http://seumasgallacher.com
Seumas had to leave the building in a hurry, It's my fault mind you, we didn't realize that was the time. I mentioned we only had half hour before last orders at the bar.
Great interview with a great guest. Thank you Seumas for being such a great sport and taking your time out to take part of this blog tour :)
We would both like to thank all the readers for all their support. We both hope you have enjoyed this interview. Until next week when I have another great guessed lined up for you! Right that is me out of here now... Enjoy your weekend, I have a cheeky pint to attend to before it goes warm. Cheers everyone ;)!!
I want to do an interview that put the author's mind to the test and also to show the readers how awesome their creative minds actually are when put on the spot.. This is a little more than just an interview, with great stories and fun questions along with fun answers, this is one blogspot that should hit the right spot... if you have a sense of humour :) Let's see how my third guess, Seumas Gallacher get's along. I will let Seumas introduce himself...
Website http://www.seumasgallacher.wordpress.comAn Authorial Icon-In-Waiting, Seumas Gallacher, at the age of 97 ½, has come a tad late to the quill-scraping fraternity, but has been blessed with astonishing support for his first two novels and was even voted ‘Blogger of the Year’ (it’s amazing what a bit of champagne and chocolate biscuits bribery can achieve). Born in the Govan Docklands area in Glasgow, this modern-day Steinbeck-Child-Clancy has moved around the world, mostly to escape the clutches of a posse of probation officers and Interpol. The Far East, and now the Middle East, has had to bear his company for the past 33 years. He’s now trying to figure out how to make ten million dollars from guesting on blogsites like this one…
Nice Bio for a 97 year old lol, I can see the fun has started alredy... Thank you for the brief introduction, Seumas, I won't even ask if you are wearing any, just as long as you let your mind hang out on this interview then we're all safe... Wait a minute doesn't a man have two minds!! Use your top one please Seumas, and I hope by doing so, you get to make that million dollars from being a guest on my blogspot. Its nice to know you for spot talent! 'Giggles' let's see how you can answer these questions and also thanks again for being here :)
Its my pleasure to be here
Sometimes in life, we all want more than what we can have, but if you had one wish to have anything or anyone, what would that wish be and why?
I strongly believe that everything that's happened in my life to date was necessary to sculpt me into what I am now... so, I'd change NUTHIN. (I can imagine my old Philosopher chum, Plato, turning in his crypt.
I agree with what you're saying; Ive been sculpted with life and I am who I am :)
I would like you to make a short story up using no more than 500 words, containing every one of these 14 key words; Tube, Swing, Cube, Dog Poo, Blood, Window, Dad, Car, Sex, Limp, Job, Grass, Nite, DM!
Sometimes your luck can play daft games with you. I was in my car on the way to an audition two days ago. I needed the job badly. You know how it is when you have to limp by day by day with hardly enough left in the wallet to buy even a tube of toothpaste. The play being cast was ‘The Nite of the Cube’, a weirdmodernistic production from an old playwright, probably as ancient as my Dad. I thought I’d just swing by the theatre early, maybe get some kudos for looking keen. I parked my battered Vauxhall at the side of the building, next to the sex parlour that abuts the place, sent a DM to my agent to tell him where I was, and clambered out, flicking the electronic key to lock the doors. What I failed to notice from the car window, hidden in the grass verge was a pile of dog poo. The result was catastrophic. Head over heels I went in a vaguesimulation of a drunken frog. The body blows were bad enough, but the blood streaming from my nose spattered down my best white shirt.
Still half-dazed, and decidedly shaken, not stirred, I tottered into the auditorium. An instant scream pierced the morning quiet. “He looks perfect! Get his name, now!” The utterance from the casting chief amazed me, until it was explained they needed to fill the walking corpse part. They congratulated me on thinking so well ahead and thought it neat that I could be so clever. To ‘come in character part’.
The first night is tomorrow week, but I can’t think where to find a load of more dog poo. We real actors value our immersion in the role, you know.
You sure passed that question with flying colours! Great story Seuams and like my other guest you have made that question look very easy, you even used the word dog poo twice :)
When I first started writing, I had a lot of negative people around me, I know I had to lose that energy in order to continue writing and fulfilling what others thought I couldn’t do. Did you ever experience any of this when you first started writing or were you lucky enough to have the right support around you?
I seem to have discovered the ability to shut out the external noise. Besides, I have a personal thing about there only being two kinds of day… Good Days and Better Days. It’s difficult for Negative Nellies to get to me.
I can relate to that, I have only just started learning over the years how to shake off that negative. If people can't be happy for you, then they're not meant to be a part of you. I'm youngish and I am not 97 'giggles', I still have a lot of learning to do, but that is one thing I have learned, is to shake off negativity, it's the best way to move forward. Speaking of forward lets move on...
If you had a chance to run any country and make to make a difference, what country would that be and why?
I’d love to be the Wizard Gandalf with the Magic Wand to transform the lives of the general populace in the Philippines. The country is blessed with the most joyful, laughing, singing, dancing, good-natured folks imaginable, but counterpointed with natural and man-made disasters on a regular scale. They deserve better fortune.
I can relate to that, but if you had a magic wand you wouldn't need to be on my blog spot trying to make a million dollars. I'll be borrowing that wand and having a pint with you... Don't forget who your friends are :)
What would you say the worse thing a reader has ever said to you, and what was your reaction?
The earliest negative review I received was from some guy who gave THE VIOLIN MAN’S LEGACY two stars out of five. The dagger-through-the-heart feeling was palpable. I then checked the only other review this guy had done. It was on John Grisham. He gave him one star out of five! From that time forward, I try to treat the bulk of reviews with a huge barrel of salt.
I thought we had already discussed negative energy, I'm just glad you have moved on from that now. I know when I received one 2 star review, I felt the same as you, but then reality kicks in, 'what does it matter' you're going to get people that like your work and then your going to get people that it doesn't appeal to, same old saying, 'you can't please them all.'
I would like you to vision yourself walking down a busy high street with a partner or a friend, and suddenly there was a noise that came from your their bottom and the public turned around looking at you, what would your reaction be and why?
I’d laugh my head off. I’m squarely in Billy Connolly’s court with this stuff. Bodily functions are normal, and the surprise is what makes us giggle. Farting should be franchised I say.
'Giggles', I just had a vision then, of you and your friends's in that room next to Billy Connolly standing around drinking whisky with all the kilts lifting up with gushes of wind coming from your backsides, a bit like that film... what's it called again it's an old classic... 'Blazing Saddles' that's the one, you know where they're all sat round a camp fire eating beans, I think you know the rest,. Take that vision and I think it could be another great comedy stretch depending on how it's done of course :)
Use only two words that would describe you?
Irreverent. Positive.
The first word certainly sums you up and I can see where the positive comes into play, I just hope you go easy on me after this interview goes live :)
8, Have you ever been…
A, The owner of a lonely heart
B. The owner of a broken heart
C. None of the above?
If the answer is C, please can you tell the reader how you have done it, I can see the reader would being interested to know that one, I know I am.
A and B, several times over.
Sorry to hear that, Seumas. I know how those hearts can hurt! This is the third interview and they have all been the owner of a broken heart, but not several time's, mind you! My answer to that would be 5 times so far, but I've not reached several times just yet, who know's what tomorrow brings!
It's time for a little fun, I would like you to do the rhyme ‘Humpty Dumpty’. Using your own words and without holding back.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall,
All the King’s horses, and all the Kings men
Had scrambled eggs for breakfast.
... And then amen! I meant a little like this ' Kev's Style'
Kevin Swarbrick flat on his backKevin Swarbrick never looked backAll the women and all men were really surprised when Louie was bigger than them with the women shouting out 'Amen'... Anyone who has read my novel 'Passion' will know who Louie is, I just had to get that one in, 'Giggles'
When you are writing, do you ever think, 'Erm me and my partner did that once, that has to go into the story?
Only once? Hardly. You’ve got to practice some stuff a lot to write about it with authority.
'Giggles' That's why I'm so good at it, now that explains a lot :)If you could be a Musical instrument, which one would you be and why?
Violin. It’s an instrument that can evoke the entire range of human emotions. ( And some of them are worth a lot of money, so I’d also change my name to ‘Seumas Stradivarius’.)
Seumas Stadivarius, now that's a great name :) I don't think I could be any Musical instrument that has strings, people have played with my strings for far too long, but I am glad they have now or I wouldn't be the person I am today ;)
If you could change one thing about you as a person, what would that one thing be?NUTHIN.. see answer #1 above. Happy with the product as is.
I will toast to that :)
I know we all remember our first kiss, would you say you had a good experience or a bad one? Please explain why.Good experience. We must have been all of 4 years old. Early starters in Govan, we were. Sunday School Christmas party. Postman’s Knock, Children’s kissy-kissy game. Mostly intended I think to embarrass kids to the delight of their fellows.
Bloody hell! 4 years old for your first kiss, I can remember a lot of my life, but I can't remember when I was four, that's just a blur. It must be my age ;)!
Do you ever remember a part in your life that made a huge impact on you as a person. If so what was it and why?
Loads of them. Growing up as a teenager, working in the Scottish Hebrides after leaving home at 15. Six years there, among great characters and the most friendly, generous people I’ve ever known has left a legacy with me.
Happy memories with great friends are always the best. I am lucky to have some awesome friends that I've known since my teens too. Those friends are the best, they have stuck by me all those years and they're going nowhere, they're there for the good times and the bad. Now thouse kind of friends are priceless and are hard to come by. Who inspired you to write or was it always a dream to be an author?
It just occurred to me about four years ago that it ‘was time’ to eventually write ‘the novel’ that everybody’s supposed to have in them. The passion for the whole nine yards of the process from writing, toediting, to publishing, to marketing, to social networking, that has developed in this short space of time leads to me know I should have started decades ago.I am glad you decided to write, sometime's you do have to let it all hang out as you know 'Giddles' really though what a better way to do that than putting it all into words. It's a lot of hard work that's for sure and I hope I am doing my part to help you all to be noticed that little bit more. I won't keep you as I know you have to go, but before you do I would Like to say thank you for coming along on my blog tour and for being such a great sport. You did great on this test, but your rhyming needs a lot of work 'Giggles'. I wish you all the best for the future. I hope you find that wand too. Before you go...Can you tell the reader about your latest work and also, where they can find you.
The Work in Progress is SAVAGE PAYBACK. It’s populated with the same characters as the first two novels (and there’s at least another two to follow this one). It spins around the ex-SAS officers who now run their own specialist security firm. When international criminal gangs and drug lords come across their bows, they revert to their black ops personae to sort them out.
The second book is VENGEANCE WEARS BLACK, and I’ll post thelinks for that here, so that the gasping readers don’t have to wait until I finish SAVAGE PAYBACK….
US http://amzn.to/UK
UK http://amzn.to/13yV1YX
Canada http://amzn.to/14gODEZ
Website http://www.seumasgallacher.wordpress.cGoodreads,
Goodreads http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5242668.Seumas_Gallacher
Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/seumasgallacher?ref=tn_tnmn
Twitter, @seumasgallacherBlog Page, http://seumasgallacher.com
Seumas had to leave the building in a hurry, It's my fault mind you, we didn't realize that was the time. I mentioned we only had half hour before last orders at the bar.
Great interview with a great guest. Thank you Seumas for being such a great sport and taking your time out to take part of this blog tour :)
We would both like to thank all the readers for all their support. We both hope you have enjoyed this interview. Until next week when I have another great guessed lined up for you! Right that is me out of here now... Enjoy your weekend, I have a cheeky pint to attend to before it goes warm. Cheers everyone ;)!!
@KevinSwarbrick 'Deliciously Scandulous blog Tour' Interviewing the awesome author, Seumas Gallacher.
Thank you all for joining me and my wonderful guest on my blogspot. Just a little recap to remind you what the interviews are about... I wanted these interviews to be different and unique. I want them each to have their own individuality to match the author's personality who do participate.
I want to do an interview that put the author's mind to the test and also to show the readers how awesome their creative minds actually are when put on the spot.. This is a little more than just an interview, with great stories and fun questions along with fun answers, this is one blogspot that should hit the right spot... if you have a sense of humour :) Let's see how my third guess, Seumas Gallacher get's along. I will let Seumas introduce himself...
Website http://www.seumasgallacher.wordpress.com
An Authorial Icon-In-Waiting, Seumas Gallacher, at the age of 97 ½, has come a tad late to the quill-scraping fraternity, but has been blessed with astonishing support for his first two novels and was even voted ‘Blogger of the Year’ (it’s amazing what a bit of champagne and chocolate biscuits bribery can achieve). Born in the Govan Docklands area in Glasgow, this modern-day Steinbeck-Child-Clancy has moved around the world, mostly to escape the clutches of a posse of probation officers and Interpol. The Far East, and now the Middle East, has had to bear his company for the past 33 years. He’s now trying to figure out how to make ten million dollars from guesting on blogsites like this one…
Nice Bio for a 97 year old lol, I can see the fun has started alredy... Thank you for the brief introduction, Seumas, I won't even ask if you are wearing any, just as long as you let your mind hang out on this interview then we're all safe... Wait a minute doesn't a man have two minds!! Use your top one please Seumas, and I hope by doing so, you get to make that million dollars from being a guest on my blogspot. Its nice to know you for spot talent! 'Giggles' let's see how you can answer these questions and also thanks again for being here :)
Its my pleasure to be here
Sometimes in life, we all want more than what we can have, but if you had one wish to have anything or anyone, what would that wish be and why?
I strongly believe that everything that's happened in my life to date was necessary to sculpt me into what I am now... so, I'd change NUTHIN. (I can imagine my old Philosopher chum, Plato, turning in his crypt.
I agree with what you're saying; Ive been sculpted with life and I am who I am :)
I would like you to make a short story up using no more than 500 words, containing every one of these 14 key words; Tube, Swing, Cube, Dog Poo, Blood, Window, Dad, Car, Sex, Limp, Job, Grass, Nite, DM!
Sometimes your luck can play daft games with you. I was in my car on the way to an audition two days ago. I needed the job badly. You know how it is when you have to limp by day by day with hardly enough left in the wallet to buy even a tube of toothpaste. The play being cast was ‘The Nite of the Cube’, a weirdmodernistic production from an old playwright, probably as ancient as my Dad. I thought I’d just swing by the theatre early, maybe get some kudos for looking keen. I parked my battered Vauxhall at the side of the building, next to the sex parlour that abuts the place, sent a DM to my agent to tell him where I was, and clambered out, flicking the electronic key to lock the doors. What I failed to notice from the car window, hidden in the grass verge was a pile of dog poo. The result was catastrophic. Head over heels I went in a vaguesimulation of a drunken frog. The body blows were bad enough, but the blood streaming from my nose spattered down my best white shirt.
Still half-dazed, and decidedly shaken, not stirred, I tottered into the auditorium. An instant scream pierced the morning quiet. “He looks perfect! Get his name, now!” The utterance from the casting chief amazed me, until it was explained they needed to fill the walking corpse part. They congratulated me on thinking so well ahead and thought it neat that I could be so clever. To ‘come in character part’.
The first night is tomorrow week, but I can’t think where to find a load of more dog poo. We real actors value our immersion in the role, you know.
You sure passed that question with flying colours! Great story Seuams and like my other guest you have made that question look very easy, you even used the word dog poo twice :)
When I first started writing, I had a lot of negative people around me, I know I had to lose that energy in order to continue writing and fulfilling what others thought I couldn’t do. Did you ever experience any of this when you first started writing or were you lucky enough to have the right support around you?
I seem to have discovered the ability to shut out the external noise. Besides, I have a personal thing about there only being two kinds of day… Good Days and Better Days. It’s difficult for Negative Nellies to get to me.
I can relate to that, I have only just started learning over the years how to shake off that negative. If people can't be happy for you, then they're not meant to be a part of you. I'm youngish and I am not 97 'giggles', I still have a lot of learning to do, but that is one thing I have learned, is to shake off negativity, it's the best way to move forward. Speaking of forward lets move on...
If you had a chance to run any country and make to make a difference, what country would that be and why?
I’d love to be the Wizard Gandalf with the Magic Wand to transform the lives of the general populace in the Philippines. The country is blessed with the most joyful, laughing, singing, dancing, good-natured folks imaginable, but counterpointed with natural and man-made disasters on a regular scale. They deserve better fortune.
I can relate to that, but if you had a magic wand you wouldn't need to be on my blog spot trying to make a million dollars. I'll be borrowing that wand and having a pint with you... Don't forget who your friends are :)
What would you say the worse thing a reader has ever said to you, and what was your reaction?
The earliest negative review I received was from some guy who gave THE VIOLIN MAN’S LEGACY two stars out of five. The dagger-through-the-heart feeling was palpable. I then checked the only other review this guy had done. It was on John Grisham. He gave him one star out of five! From that time forward, I try to treat the bulk of reviews with a huge barrel of salt.
I thought we had already discussed negative energy, I'm just glad you have moved on from that now. I know when I received one 2 star review, I felt the same as you, but then reality kicks in, 'what does it matter' you're going to get people that like your work and then your going to get people that it doesn't appeal to, same old saying, 'you can't please them all.'
I would like you to vision yourself walking down a busy high street with a partner or a friend, and suddenly there was a noise that came from your their bottom and the public turned around looking at you, what would your reaction be and why?
I’d laugh my head off. I’m squarely in Billy Connolly’s court with this stuff. Bodily functions are normal, and the surprise is what makes us giggle. Farting should be franchised I say.
'Giggles', I just had a vision then, of you and your friends's in that room next to Billy Connolly standing around drinking whisky with all the kilts lifting up with gushes of wind coming from your backsides, a bit like that film... what's it called again it's an old classic... 'Blazing Saddles' that's the one, you know where they're all sat round a camp fire eating beans, I think you know the rest,. Take that vision and I think it could be another great comedy stretch depending on how it's done of course :)
Use only two words that would describe you?
Irreverent. Positive.
The first word certainly sums you up and I can see where the positive comes into play, I just hope you go easy on me after this interview goes live :)
8, Have you ever been…
A, The owner of a lonely heart
B. The owner of a broken heart
C. None of the above?
If the answer is C, please can you tell the reader how you have done it, I can see the reader would being interested to know that one, I know I am.
A and B, several times over.
Sorry to hear that, Seumas. I know how those hearts can hurt! This is the third interview and they have all been the owner of a broken heart, but not several time's, mind you! My answer to that would be 5 times so far, but I've not reached several times just yet, who know's what tomorrow brings!
It's time for a little fun, I would like you to do the rhyme ‘Humpty Dumpty’. Using your own words and without holding back.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall,
All the King’s horses, and all the Kings men
Had scrambled eggs for breakfast.
... And then amen! I meant a little like this ' Kev's Style'
Kevin Swarbrick flat on his backKevin Swarbrick never looked backAll the women and all men were really surprised when Louie was bigger than them with the women shouting out 'Amen'... Anyone who has read my novel 'Passion' will know who Louie is, I just had to get that one in, 'Giggles'
When you are writing, do you ever think, 'Erm me and my partner did that once, that has to go into the story?
Only once? Hardly. You’ve got to practice some stuff a lot to write about it with authority.
'Giggles' That's why I'm so good at it, now that explains a lot :)If you could be a Musical instrument, which one would you be and why?
Violin. It’s an instrument that can evoke the entire range of human emotions. ( And some of them are worth a lot of money, so I’d also change my name to ‘Seumas Stradivarius’.)
Seumas Stadivarius, now that's a great name :) I don't think I could be any Musical instrument that has strings, people have played with my strings for far too long, but I am glad they have now or I wouldn't be the person I am today ;)
If you could change one thing about you as a person, what would that one thing be?NUTHIN.. see answer #1 above. Happy with the product as is.
I will toast to that :)
I know we all remember our first kiss, would you say you had a good experience or a bad one? Please explain why.
Good experience. We must have been all of 4 years old. Early starters in Govan, we were. Sunday School Christmas party. Postman’s Knock, Children’s kissy-kissy game. Mostly intended I think to embarrass kids to the delight of their fellows.Bloody hell! 4 years old for your first kiss, I can remember a lot of my life, but I can't remember when I was four, that's just a blur. It must be my age ;)!
Do you ever remember a part in your life that made a huge impact on you as a person. If so what was it and why?
Loads of them. Growing up as a teenager, working in the Scottish Hebrides after leaving home at 15. Six years there, among great characters and the most friendly, generous people I’ve ever known has left a legacy with me.
Happy memories with great friends are always the best. I am lucky to have some awesome friends that I've known since my teens too. Those friends are the best, they have stuck by me all those years and they're going nowhere, they're there for the good times and the bad. Now thouse kind of friends are priceless and are hard to come by. Who inspired you to write or was it always a dream to be an author?
It just occurred to me about four years ago that it ‘was time’ to eventually write ‘the novel’ that everybody’s supposed to have in them. The passion for the whole nine yards of the process from writing, toediting, to publishing, to marketing, to social networking, that has developed in this short space of time leads to me know I should have started decades ago.I am glad you decided to write, sometime's you do have to let it all hang out as you know 'Giddles' really though what a better way to do that than putting it all into words. It's a lot of hard work that's for sure and I hope I am doing my part to help you all to be noticed that little bit more. I won't keep you as I know you have to go, but before you do I would Like to say thank you for coming along on my blog tour and for being such a great sport. You did great on this test, but your rhyming needs a lot of work 'Giggles'. I wish you all the best for the future. I hope you find that wand too. Before you go...
Can you tell the reader about your latest work and also, where they can find you.
The Work in Progress is SAVAGE PAYBACK. It’s populated with the same characters as the first two novels (and there’s at least another two to follow this one). It spins around the ex-SAS officers who now run their own specialist security firm. When international criminal gangs and drug lords come across their bows, they revert to their black ops personae to sort them out.
The second book is VENGEANCE WEARS BLACK, and I’ll post thelinks for that here, so that the gasping readers don’t have to wait until I finish SAVAGE PAYBACK….
US http://amzn.to/UK
UK http://amzn.to/13yV1YX
Canada http://amzn.to/14gODEZ
Website http://www.seumasgallacher.wordpress.cGoodreads,
Goodreads http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5242668.Seumas_Gallacher
Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/seumasgallacher?ref=tn_tnmn
Twitter, @seumasgallacherBlog Page, http://seumasgallacher.com
Seumas had to leave the building in a hurry, It's my fault mind you, we didn't realize that was the time. I mentioned we only had half hour before last orders at the bar.
Great interview with a great guest. Thank you Seumas for being such a great sport and taking your time out to take part of this blog tour :)
We would both like to thank all the readers for all their support. We both hope you have enjoyed this interview. Until next week when I have another great guessed lined up for you! Right that is me out of here now... Enjoy your weekend, I have a cheeky pint to attend to before it goes warm. Cheers everyone ;)!!
I want to do an interview that put the author's mind to the test and also to show the readers how awesome their creative minds actually are when put on the spot.. This is a little more than just an interview, with great stories and fun questions along with fun answers, this is one blogspot that should hit the right spot... if you have a sense of humour :) Let's see how my third guess, Seumas Gallacher get's along. I will let Seumas introduce himself...
Website http://www.seumasgallacher.wordpress.comAn Authorial Icon-In-Waiting, Seumas Gallacher, at the age of 97 ½, has come a tad late to the quill-scraping fraternity, but has been blessed with astonishing support for his first two novels and was even voted ‘Blogger of the Year’ (it’s amazing what a bit of champagne and chocolate biscuits bribery can achieve). Born in the Govan Docklands area in Glasgow, this modern-day Steinbeck-Child-Clancy has moved around the world, mostly to escape the clutches of a posse of probation officers and Interpol. The Far East, and now the Middle East, has had to bear his company for the past 33 years. He’s now trying to figure out how to make ten million dollars from guesting on blogsites like this one…
Nice Bio for a 97 year old lol, I can see the fun has started alredy... Thank you for the brief introduction, Seumas, I won't even ask if you are wearing any, just as long as you let your mind hang out on this interview then we're all safe... Wait a minute doesn't a man have two minds!! Use your top one please Seumas, and I hope by doing so, you get to make that million dollars from being a guest on my blogspot. Its nice to know you for spot talent! 'Giggles' let's see how you can answer these questions and also thanks again for being here :)
Its my pleasure to be here
Sometimes in life, we all want more than what we can have, but if you had one wish to have anything or anyone, what would that wish be and why?
I strongly believe that everything that's happened in my life to date was necessary to sculpt me into what I am now... so, I'd change NUTHIN. (I can imagine my old Philosopher chum, Plato, turning in his crypt.
I agree with what you're saying; Ive been sculpted with life and I am who I am :)
I would like you to make a short story up using no more than 500 words, containing every one of these 14 key words; Tube, Swing, Cube, Dog Poo, Blood, Window, Dad, Car, Sex, Limp, Job, Grass, Nite, DM!
Sometimes your luck can play daft games with you. I was in my car on the way to an audition two days ago. I needed the job badly. You know how it is when you have to limp by day by day with hardly enough left in the wallet to buy even a tube of toothpaste. The play being cast was ‘The Nite of the Cube’, a weirdmodernistic production from an old playwright, probably as ancient as my Dad. I thought I’d just swing by the theatre early, maybe get some kudos for looking keen. I parked my battered Vauxhall at the side of the building, next to the sex parlour that abuts the place, sent a DM to my agent to tell him where I was, and clambered out, flicking the electronic key to lock the doors. What I failed to notice from the car window, hidden in the grass verge was a pile of dog poo. The result was catastrophic. Head over heels I went in a vaguesimulation of a drunken frog. The body blows were bad enough, but the blood streaming from my nose spattered down my best white shirt.
Still half-dazed, and decidedly shaken, not stirred, I tottered into the auditorium. An instant scream pierced the morning quiet. “He looks perfect! Get his name, now!” The utterance from the casting chief amazed me, until it was explained they needed to fill the walking corpse part. They congratulated me on thinking so well ahead and thought it neat that I could be so clever. To ‘come in character part’.
The first night is tomorrow week, but I can’t think where to find a load of more dog poo. We real actors value our immersion in the role, you know.
You sure passed that question with flying colours! Great story Seuams and like my other guest you have made that question look very easy, you even used the word dog poo twice :)
When I first started writing, I had a lot of negative people around me, I know I had to lose that energy in order to continue writing and fulfilling what others thought I couldn’t do. Did you ever experience any of this when you first started writing or were you lucky enough to have the right support around you?
I seem to have discovered the ability to shut out the external noise. Besides, I have a personal thing about there only being two kinds of day… Good Days and Better Days. It’s difficult for Negative Nellies to get to me.
I can relate to that, I have only just started learning over the years how to shake off that negative. If people can't be happy for you, then they're not meant to be a part of you. I'm youngish and I am not 97 'giggles', I still have a lot of learning to do, but that is one thing I have learned, is to shake off negativity, it's the best way to move forward. Speaking of forward lets move on...
If you had a chance to run any country and make to make a difference, what country would that be and why?
I’d love to be the Wizard Gandalf with the Magic Wand to transform the lives of the general populace in the Philippines. The country is blessed with the most joyful, laughing, singing, dancing, good-natured folks imaginable, but counterpointed with natural and man-made disasters on a regular scale. They deserve better fortune.
I can relate to that, but if you had a magic wand you wouldn't need to be on my blog spot trying to make a million dollars. I'll be borrowing that wand and having a pint with you... Don't forget who your friends are :)
What would you say the worse thing a reader has ever said to you, and what was your reaction?
The earliest negative review I received was from some guy who gave THE VIOLIN MAN’S LEGACY two stars out of five. The dagger-through-the-heart feeling was palpable. I then checked the only other review this guy had done. It was on John Grisham. He gave him one star out of five! From that time forward, I try to treat the bulk of reviews with a huge barrel of salt.
I thought we had already discussed negative energy, I'm just glad you have moved on from that now. I know when I received one 2 star review, I felt the same as you, but then reality kicks in, 'what does it matter' you're going to get people that like your work and then your going to get people that it doesn't appeal to, same old saying, 'you can't please them all.'
I would like you to vision yourself walking down a busy high street with a partner or a friend, and suddenly there was a noise that came from your their bottom and the public turned around looking at you, what would your reaction be and why?
I’d laugh my head off. I’m squarely in Billy Connolly’s court with this stuff. Bodily functions are normal, and the surprise is what makes us giggle. Farting should be franchised I say.
'Giggles', I just had a vision then, of you and your friends's in that room next to Billy Connolly standing around drinking whisky with all the kilts lifting up with gushes of wind coming from your backsides, a bit like that film... what's it called again it's an old classic... 'Blazing Saddles' that's the one, you know where they're all sat round a camp fire eating beans, I think you know the rest,. Take that vision and I think it could be another great comedy stretch depending on how it's done of course :)
Use only two words that would describe you?
Irreverent. Positive.
The first word certainly sums you up and I can see where the positive comes into play, I just hope you go easy on me after this interview goes live :)
8, Have you ever been…
A, The owner of a lonely heart
B. The owner of a broken heart
C. None of the above?
If the answer is C, please can you tell the reader how you have done it, I can see the reader would being interested to know that one, I know I am.
A and B, several times over.
Sorry to hear that, Seumas. I know how those hearts can hurt! This is the third interview and they have all been the owner of a broken heart, but not several time's, mind you! My answer to that would be 5 times so far, but I've not reached several times just yet, who know's what tomorrow brings!
It's time for a little fun, I would like you to do the rhyme ‘Humpty Dumpty’. Using your own words and without holding back.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall,
All the King’s horses, and all the Kings men
Had scrambled eggs for breakfast.
... And then amen! I meant a little like this ' Kev's Style'
Kevin Swarbrick flat on his backKevin Swarbrick never looked backAll the women and all men were really surprised when Louie was bigger than them with the women shouting out 'Amen'... Anyone who has read my novel 'Passion' will know who Louie is, I just had to get that one in, 'Giggles'
When you are writing, do you ever think, 'Erm me and my partner did that once, that has to go into the story?
Only once? Hardly. You’ve got to practice some stuff a lot to write about it with authority.
'Giggles' That's why I'm so good at it, now that explains a lot :)If you could be a Musical instrument, which one would you be and why?
Violin. It’s an instrument that can evoke the entire range of human emotions. ( And some of them are worth a lot of money, so I’d also change my name to ‘Seumas Stradivarius’.)
Seumas Stadivarius, now that's a great name :) I don't think I could be any Musical instrument that has strings, people have played with my strings for far too long, but I am glad they have now or I wouldn't be the person I am today ;)
If you could change one thing about you as a person, what would that one thing be?NUTHIN.. see answer #1 above. Happy with the product as is.
I will toast to that :)
I know we all remember our first kiss, would you say you had a good experience or a bad one? Please explain why.
Good experience. We must have been all of 4 years old. Early starters in Govan, we were. Sunday School Christmas party. Postman’s Knock, Children’s kissy-kissy game. Mostly intended I think to embarrass kids to the delight of their fellows.Bloody hell! 4 years old for your first kiss, I can remember a lot of my life, but I can't remember when I was four, that's just a blur. It must be my age ;)!
Do you ever remember a part in your life that made a huge impact on you as a person. If so what was it and why?
Loads of them. Growing up as a teenager, working in the Scottish Hebrides after leaving home at 15. Six years there, among great characters and the most friendly, generous people I’ve ever known has left a legacy with me.
Happy memories with great friends are always the best. I am lucky to have some awesome friends that I've known since my teens too. Those friends are the best, they have stuck by me all those years and they're going nowhere, they're there for the good times and the bad. Now thouse kind of friends are priceless and are hard to come by. Who inspired you to write or was it always a dream to be an author?
It just occurred to me about four years ago that it ‘was time’ to eventually write ‘the novel’ that everybody’s supposed to have in them. The passion for the whole nine yards of the process from writing, toediting, to publishing, to marketing, to social networking, that has developed in this short space of time leads to me know I should have started decades ago.I am glad you decided to write, sometime's you do have to let it all hang out as you know 'Giddles' really though what a better way to do that than putting it all into words. It's a lot of hard work that's for sure and I hope I am doing my part to help you all to be noticed that little bit more. I won't keep you as I know you have to go, but before you do I would Like to say thank you for coming along on my blog tour and for being such a great sport. You did great on this test, but your rhyming needs a lot of work 'Giggles'. I wish you all the best for the future. I hope you find that wand too. Before you go...
Can you tell the reader about your latest work and also, where they can find you.
The Work in Progress is SAVAGE PAYBACK. It’s populated with the same characters as the first two novels (and there’s at least another two to follow this one). It spins around the ex-SAS officers who now run their own specialist security firm. When international criminal gangs and drug lords come across their bows, they revert to their black ops personae to sort them out.
The second book is VENGEANCE WEARS BLACK, and I’ll post thelinks for that here, so that the gasping readers don’t have to wait until I finish SAVAGE PAYBACK….
US http://amzn.to/UK
UK http://amzn.to/13yV1YX
Canada http://amzn.to/14gODEZ
Website http://www.seumasgallacher.wordpress.cGoodreads,
Goodreads http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5242668.Seumas_Gallacher
Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/seumasgallacher?ref=tn_tnmn
Twitter, @seumasgallacherBlog Page, http://seumasgallacher.com
Seumas had to leave the building in a hurry, It's my fault mind you, we didn't realize that was the time. I mentioned we only had half hour before last orders at the bar.
Great interview with a great guest. Thank you Seumas for being such a great sport and taking your time out to take part of this blog tour :)
We would both like to thank all the readers for all their support. We both hope you have enjoyed this interview. Until next week when I have another great guessed lined up for you! Right that is me out of here now... Enjoy your weekend, I have a cheeky pint to attend to before it goes warm. Cheers everyone ;)!!
May 15, 2013
A start!: @KevinSwarbrick 'Deliciously Scandalous Blog Tour'...
A start!: @KevinSwarbrick 'Deliciously Scandalous Blog Tour'...: My next guest on this tour is the awesome author, Seumas Gallacher, this Friday 17/5/13 :)
@KevinSwarbrick 'Deliciously Scandalous Blog Tour' with my guest, Author Seumas Gallacher
My next guest on this tour is the awesome author, Seumas Gallacher, this Friday 17/5/13
@KevinSwarbrick 'Deliciously Scandalous Blog Tour'
@KevinSwarbrick, 'Delicoulsy Scandalous Blog Tour' brings you...
The awesome author, Seumas Gallacher, @Seumasgallacher :) I must say this guy has plenty of character and once again just like the other author's, Seumas has been great fun and a pleasure, not to mention being a great sport to work with... I hope you enjoy the interview as much as we enjoyed writing it :)
Coming very soon, Friday 17/5/13
@KevinSwarbrick 'Deliciously Scandalous Blog Tour'
@KevinSwarbrick, 'Delicoulsy Scandalous Blog Tour' brings you...
The awesome author, Seumas Gallacher, @Seumasgallacher :) I must say this guy has plenty of character and once again just like the other author's, Seumas has been great fun and a pleasure, not to mention being a great sport to work with... I hope you enjoy the interview as much as we enjoyed writing it :)
Coming very soon, Friday 17/5/13
