Hi, Evonne! So great to have you visit my blog again so we can catch up - wishing you many sales and much success with your latest release, Summer In San Remo. Let's kick off with my questions...
Thank you, Rachel, for hosting me on the Summer in San Remo blog tour.
1.
What do you wish men understood about women?
That ‘Just because …’
is a valid reason for buying flowers. This can also be applied to chocolate.
2.
Do you only work on one book at a time?
I try to, because otherwise I end up with too
many half finished manuscripts. I have a
few of those around at the moment, but I am hoping to get back to them
sometime! The ideal is to have one book
that I am writing and one in some sort of editing state – either my edits, or
those for the publisher.
3.
Who is your favorite fictional couple?
I can’t say I have a
favourite, but as I’m working on a romantic comedy with a touch of crime, the couples
who are inspiring me at the moment are from the vintage TV series of the 80s.
In shows like Moonlighting with
Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis and Remington
Steele with Stephanie Zimbalist and Pierce Brosnan the chemistry between
the two leads was one of the things that kept you watching. I’m drawn to that glamorous detective thing –
and in those series the sun was always shining.
4.
Do you have a favorite quote that sums up how you feel about
life?
I
don’t have just one – but Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde and Harold Pinter are the
people I’m most likely to quote.
5.
Do you set daily writing goals? Word count? Number of
chapters? Do you get a chance to write every day?
I
don’t always get to write every day, and I don’t set goals. I’m in the final
stages of a doctorate in history, so my romance writing battles for time and
attention with academic writing . At the moment the academic stuff is winning,
as I am on a deadline for that. I tend to be a binge writer – I’d rather write
a book from start to finish in one long burst, then leave it for a bit and come
back to rewrite and edit.
6. What do
you like better, Twitter or Facebook? Why?
I used to much prefer
Facebook, but now that the character count for Twitter is longer I’m enjoying
that a lot more. I’m still not very good with hashtags though.
7.
What are you working on now?
At the
moment I’m sorting out what I hope will be a follow up to Summer in San Remo - the second in a series of rom coms with
criminal tendencies that I’m calling Riviera
Rogues, which are loosely based around a Bath detective
agency, but which end up somewhere sunny and glamorous on the Riviera. I’m working on editing my first draft, and it is coming into
shape now. Then it will be off to the publishers and fingers crossed that they
will like it. I’d love to be able to do a Rivera
novella for Christmas. I have started to write, but I’m not sure how fast it
will progress.
Series: The Riviera Rogues (Book 1)
Genre:
romantic comedy
Release
Date: 18 July 2017
Publisher:
Choc-lit
Anything could
happen when you spend summer in San Remo …
Running her busy
concierge service usually keeps Cassie Travers fully occupied. But when a new
client offers her the strangest commission she's ever handled she suddenly
finds herself on the cusp of an Italian adventure, with a man she thought she
would never see again.
Jake McQuire has returned from the States to his family-run detective agency. When old flame Cassie appears in need of help with her mysterious client, who better than Jake to step in?
Events take the pair across Europe to a luxurious villa on the Italian Riviera. There, Cassie finds that the mystery she pursues pales into insignificance, when compared to another discovery made along the way …
Jake McQuire has returned from the States to his family-run detective agency. When old flame Cassie appears in need of help with her mysterious client, who better than Jake to step in?
Events take the pair across Europe to a luxurious villa on the Italian Riviera. There, Cassie finds that the mystery she pursues pales into insignificance, when compared to another discovery made along the way …
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ABOUT THE
AUTHOR
Evonne Wareham was
born in Barry on the South Wales coast, but spent most of her working life in
London. Now home again in Wales she is studying for a PhD in History and
writing romance. She was a finalist in two reality writing contests in the
United States and had a great time, even if she didn’t win. When not studying
or writing, she loves to travel, go to the theatre, walk on the beach and
sleep. She has won and been nominated for awards for her romantic suspense
novels on both sides of the Atlantic, but Summer in San Remo is something different – a romantic comedy with a light dusting of
crime - which is a change of pace from writing the dark scary stuff. She is a
member of both the Crime Writers’ Association and the Romantic Novelists’
Association, which means she gets to go to twice as many literary parties.
Hi Rachel. Many thanks for helping with the blog tour - it was fun answering the questions!
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