Interviews Are Dreadful Fun

I was thrilled to chat with several local (and amazing!) reporters last week to promote both the launch of SPIRITED, as well as the Crossroads Blog Tour. Interviews are nerve wracking…you dress up (yes, that's me being "dressy" in the photo – don't judge), then feel foolish for doing so, you say "um" more than EVER before and you just might clutch your coffee cup as if it and the tree you're leaning against are the only things keeping you upright.

Photo Credit: Melissa Barr, Bonnyville Nouvelle

Ah, dreadful fun indeed.

However, you also get to meet wonderful writers in their own right. Take Melissa Barr for example, intrepid editor for the Bonnyville Nouvelle. I think I asked her just as many questions as she fired at me…about her own writing. Her work sounds wonderful and I pretty much guilted her into joining my efforts to (once again) fail at NANO. It's not the finish line of 50k words in one month that's important, I assured her, it's the spark, the kick in the ass we all need sometimes to crank up our word counts.

Melissa is also starting a local writer's group. She's awesome…and not just because she managed to take a great photo of me during our interview – in a graveyard no less. If you're local – as in Bonnyville or Cold Lake, Alberta – and you write – I encourage you to join Melissa's group! I plan to attend whenever possible. But don't take my word for it, here's Melissa's article: Reasons Why You Should Join My Writers Group. Like I said, she's fun.

Here's a link to the Spirited / Crossroads interview: http://bit.ly/uGlk5S

SPEAKING OF MEETING COOL WRITERS…

Don't forget, this is YOUR opportunity to pick writerly brains (there's a lot of that going on in my life lately…lol…) and MEET the Crossroads Blog Tour authors (NY Times bestsellers to wicked cool debuts) during the LIVE chat TONIGHT at 9pm EST. Just go here to join us: http://bit.ly/vK8c9I