Midweek Questions from My Readers (and a Giveaway)
On Facebook, I asked for some questions that were a bit out of the ordinary and received plenty! I may make this a feature on my blog for a midweek pick-me-up. Here’s the first set (and then it’s your turn…):
Q. What is your favorite breakfast food?
A. I have breakfast nearly every morning at Starbucks and when I’m being good, I have their yummy steel cut oatmeal with dried fruit and when I’m being bad, I have their cinnamon chip scone. Can you guess which I have more often?
Q. Fifty years from now, what do you hope your readers are getting from your work?
A. I love this question! Everyone wants to feel as though they’ve left behind some sort of legacy. Well, since I’m dreaming, I’d like a couple of my books to be taught in high school, most particularly the upcoming Necessary Lies and my older book, Breaking the Silence. They both have to do with the abuse of power against people unable to defend themselves, something I want young people to think about. A lot.
Q. What is the first book that impacted your life significantly?
A. Charlotte’s Web. My first grade teacher read it to us and I was transported to another world filled with emotion and action and sympathetic characters who made me cry. It made me want to be a writer.
Q. If you had 10,000,000 in cash right now but you had to spend it all on a swanky vacation before the end of the month, where would you go and what would you do there?
A. Hmm. I’m going to disappoint whoever asked this question. First of all, I don’t do swank. I really, really dislike swank. I dislike anything that requires me to wear something other than jeans or yoga pants (except for book events. I like book events even if it means I have to dress up); (the picture is me looking about as swanky as I get). Plus a swanky vacation would mean I’d be surrounded by the sort of people who like swank, so that just won’t do. So here is what I’d do with that 10,000,000 vacation: for starters, I would buy back the summer house I grew up in at the Jersey Shore. It’s on a canal between a bay and a river. (If you’ve read The Bay at Midnight, you know this little house). Then I’d invite my siblings and cousins–people who enjoyed this house when we were kids–to come spend the month with me. I’d buy a boat and or several and we’d all go boating in the bay. I think I’ve only spent about a million at this point so I will have to forfeit the rest, unless I can give it away (please let me?)
That’s enough for this week. I love these questions! Any of you who like, choose one of the questions and answer it in the comments. Friday evening, EST, I’ll pick one of you at random to win one of my audio books. And Happy Fourth of July!
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I actually didn't like to read in school because I don't like being forced to read. The first book that impacted me in the way of getting me interested in reading was later in life I was 18, and it was called "Because of Romek" by David Faber. I was invited to my old High School by my old English teacher. He was there doing a lecture and I got a signed copy of his book afterwards. He was amazing but his story was very sad. After reading his book it just opened up a new world for me and I started with Bio's from the Holocaust and it grew from there. I love how I can now watch most books in my head like a movie that is my favorite part of reading. I wish your books were made into movies because I'd watch them.
The first book to impact my life was 'The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe'. When I was about 8 yrs old, my teacher read it with us as a class, to bring it to life for us he completely covered a classroom in a display, getting us to draw around four children (I was Lucy) and then filling in the details by sticking bits on the cut outs, we then made a massive Aslan and trees. I still remember it forty years later!! I was one of those 'hidden' children, warned I must never tell anyone anything. The book and my teacher opened a whole new world of escape to me, there has not been one day since that I have not read. I can never thank my teacher (Mr Leeson) enough.
Wow, Pat, how lucky you were to have that awesome teacher.
Q. What is the first book that impacted your life significantly?I think Charlotte's Web was my first significant book as well, but also the Little House on the Prairie. I was so obsessed with that series and read them many times throughout elementary/middle school and still love them. Those books started my love for reading.
I adored What Katy Did and What Katy Did Next as a child. Read and re-read them along with Little Women and cried my way though them all.
