Interview with Author Heather Davis – Getting Lucky
Getting Lucky – Heather Davis
Cara: Heather, I love the cover for Getting Lucky! Tell me about the book.
Heather: Getting Lucky is a collection of humorous essays about a tired couple’s desire to just be intimate with each other without being interrupted by a sleepwalking kid. It’s not fifty shades of anything but brutally honest and hilariously funny truth as I retell my husband’s and my journey to bringing sexy back into our bedroom.
Cara: What project are you working on now?
Heather: Crazy on Board is a collection of humorous travel essays. It’s about to be handed off to my editor even as we speak.
Cara: We’ll be looking for that one! Do you have a secret dream writing project that you’d love time to hide away with?
Heather: I actually have about a dozen! I’d like to write about family traditions. I’d write a chick lit story that keeps playing out in my head, and I’d love to rescue old, abandoned pictures from flea markets and antique shows and tell their stories.
Cara: Tell me something about yourself that most people don’t know.
Heather: I’m known for oversharing … there’s not much people don’t know about me. BUT, I’d venture to guess that people would be surprised to learn that at one point I considered being a United Methodist pastor. True Story.
Cara: What does your family think of your writing? Do you include them in the process?
Heather: My family is my very first editor. Since most of my writing comes directly from our experiences as a family, they get the first chance to say, “heck no.” Otherwise, they love it!
Cara: What is your favorite thing you’ve hidden in a book? (Name, date, etc)
Heather: In my first book all of our birthdays and anniversaries are hidden in the book. Wanna know where? Read the book and find them.
Cara: How fun! Now I have to search them out. What is the first book you remember reading or wanting to read?
Heather: In middle school, I read Judy Blume’s Forever because I was curious about Kathryn and Michael “doing it” (pg. 97). I even took the copy I had to church with me so my friends could read about it as well. (I wonder why I didn’t pursue that theology degree…) In high school, I read Judy Blume’s Wifey. I thought I was so grown up for reading that adult book as a sixteen year old. Then I was so embarrassed that I hid the book in case my mother ever found it and read it.
Cara: Judy Blume educated our generation and is still popular. I love it! Do you have an interesting writing quirk? Like a lucky pair of socks?
Heather: A couple of my more popular posts on my blog were written at 3 a.m. when I was up with a sick kid. I wouldn’t call that a quirk, though—more like sheer luck.
Cara: Who is the first author you remember being aware of?
Heather: Judy Blume (obviously—see above). She wrote about those taboo things that no one talked to us about in the 70s and 80s. I loved her for that then and I love her for it now. I am also a fangirl of Celia Rivenbark. Not that I’m a stalker, but meeting her is on my bucket list.
Heather Davis overshares her life. On her blog, in her books, even on national television, she always tells more than the average minivan driver wants to know. She’s the author of the wildly popular TMI Mom book series, which includes TMI Mom Bites The Big Apple, TMI Mom: Oversharing My Life and the soon-to-be released Getting Lucky. She and her husband live in Oklahoma with their two daughters. Follow Heather’s Blog, Facebook, Twitter: @MinivanMomma2, Pinterest: Minivan_Momma, and find her on Goodreads, Amazon, Google+!
Heather Davis – Getting Lucky
