Introducing Indie Author Pepper Phillips!
I've followed Pepper's career for a number of years. I judged her book The Devil Has Dimples in a contest and LOVED it! I'm so glad she decided to publish it! She also ran the contest diva website (maybe still does, but I don't aim for the list like I did!) that kept track of all contest winners all year! I still have the certificate she sent me!
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Where did you get your idea for the book?
I'm a Nursing Home Administrator, and one of our patients was in the local hospital, dying. She was one of those ladies that I pictured as the perfect grandmother. Fluffy, white-haired, brilliant blue eyes, a peach tone to her wrinkled skin, she was the grandmother pictured in all the books I read as a kid. She was lying in the hospital bed with her eyes closed, her family around her, and I bent over and kissed her on the forehead and whispered in her ear, "Mom, come home, we miss you." I stood up, her eyes snapped open, startling the daylights out of me. Three days later she was back in the nursing home. I figured that she heard her family talking about her demise and thought she was dying. The day she came back to the nursing home, her daughter was talking to my Director of Nurses and myself and made the comment, "We have to change out the pig in the freezer." My D.O.N. and I looked at each other, wondering what she was referring to, and we had to ask. The explanation was that the family kept a roasting pig in their freezer so that when their mother died, it would be roasted for the funeral. We were both speechless. I went back into my office and thought for a moment, grabbed one of those 4×6 pads with advertising and wrote the beginning of The Devil Has Dimples. The excerpt is those five pages fleshed out over the years. It took me six months to write the last line, 'The next day, the daughter no one knew existed showed up in Boggy Bayou.' and that's when the story really started
2. What's next for you? - I'm in the final edits of converting a screenplay into a novella. "Unconditionally" will be available in February.
3. When you're procrastinating, what do you do? – Email, reading, a little housework, emphasis on 'little'.
4. How many books in your TBR pile? - LOL, I'm so bad. I love books. I know there are over a thousand in my Kindle alone, not to mention all the paperbacks in my four bookcases. If I stopped everything and read, I don't believe I'll finish them all before I croak.
5. What's your biggest guilty pleasure? – Dove Dark Chocolate in the red foil. They melt in your mouth, and Dove puts a nice little message inside the wrapper, such as…'You don't need an excuse. You just need a moment.' How 'sweet' is that?
6. Name 3 of your favorite things. - I have a camouflaged sweatshirt, that is so huge the sleeves fall six inches beyond my hands, that I love to wear. My Kindle. My Writer's baseball cap that has my breast cancer pins around the rim.
7.Where can readers find you? – http://pepperphillips.com
