Hi Elodie! Welcome to my crazy world!
Hi Elizabeth,
Thank you
for inviting me to the blog.
You are so welcome! I’m glad you could join
me!
Why don’t you tell us a little bit about yourself, Elodie?
I live in southern rural England, United Kingdom and I work
in an antiques shop as well as writing. I have two dogs that keep me fit with
their need for walks. I love the countryside and the coast.
I write romance, contemporary, and erotic with a twist of
mystery, suspense, or the paranormal, now and then. I like to make the story
unusual in some way, by a quirk in the tale.
When did you first
start writing?
I started
writing when I was seventeen. Life intervened in my writing time and I stopped
serious writing for some time. I started writing again seriously a couple of
years ago, because I had so many stories in my head.
Below you can find links to all of Elodie's books :D
What do you love
about writing?
I love the sudden unfolding of other
lives and places. They are suddenly real to me and I can actually see the
places and people as I write. I love my characters and even though I have
created them, I miss them all long after the book is published.
What do you need when
writing? Music, candy, silence, etc.
I don’t need much really, except the time
and the laptop.
Time, something we all need more of! :D
How did you go about
building your world and characters?
They unfold as I tell the story that has
dropped into my head. It just happens. Sometimes I will have seen something
that inspires me and so I have a picture that might be the initial scene. In
general it’s like magic.
Can you provide us
with an excerpt? (Excerpt and book cover :D)
From my new release with Hot Ink Press, The Winter Girl
Lily
Prescott is only just over a relationship break up when she decides to take up
residence in a house left to her by her recently deceased grandmother. Her
corporate law job takes a back seat as she licks her wounds in the small
country town. She looks around the main shopping street and discovers people
who will befriend her, but she also runs into the town’s most eligible bachelor
and secret bad boy, Starr Forrester.
Loved
for his lifelong association with the town, Starr hides his methods for staying
single well from his friends. He’s nearly thirty, gorgeous, a designer, owns a
business and on the lookout for his ‘Winter Girl’….
Will
it be Lily? What is a ‘Winter girl’?
Love the cover by the way!
Read an excerpt:
Rated: General
As Lily passed
‘Stone Magick’ on the high street, Ash was out on a ladder checking his awning
was going to pass muster for the sunnier days ahead. The sun would shine
directly in and it was too harsh on the display and in the front part of the
shop. He knew Lily’s car, and he saw it pass. He stared after it.
He had
accepted that he was in love with Lily. He wanted to tell her, but he couldn’t.
He felt feverish with the need for it to spill from his lips when he was with
her, but it stayed locked in his heart. He was sure she loved him too. She
hadn’t said it, but her looks and the way she had made love to him in the last
few days told him so.
He climbed
down the ladder and called for his friend who was in the shop putting new
lights over the middle cash desk.
“Colin, get
out here and give me a hand with this ladder, it’s a real nuisance to take down
the alley to the back.”
Colin came to
the door with a tool of some kind in his hand.
“Sure, hang
on.” He put the tool down and they both lifted the ladder to walk it down the
alley by the side of the shop and up to Ash’s garage where it was stored. It
was cumbersome, because it was an extendable ladder with three layers and lots
of ways to trap your hand as you carried it.
“Can’t you get
a new one Ash, this is old and the new ones are so much lighter?” Colin winced
as a foot of the ladder hit him in the knuckles when they rounded the corner of
the garage.
Ash grinned
and nodded. “Just for you Colin.”
****
Sounds great! I can't wait to read it!
Elodie
is running a giveaway to celebrate the release of The Winter
Girl.
Win a
$10 or £10 Amazon Gift card, enter via the rafflecopter.
Fun time!
Do you play games? If
so what kind? If not, why the heck not?
I don’t play games any more, just simply
don’t have any time. The fact is I work 18 hour days what with the day job,
writing and marketing needs.
Favorite author?
I read so widely and from different
authors that I don’t have a favorite.
Favorite TV guilty
pleasure?
Watching The Vampire Diaries
Favorite Action Hero?
Not sure what to answer here, action hero
implies ordinary human and I generally find the action heroes I like are guys
such as Ironman, Thor, that kind of character.
Well, you certainly can't go wrong with Ironman! :D
Either/ or Lightening round!
Are you a dog person
or a cat person? Dog
Chocolate or Vanilla
ice cream? Neither I can’t eat ice-cream
Oh dear!
Fruits or Veggies? Fruit
Coke or Pepsi? Again,
can’t have it, there are additives that give me asthma
Oh that stinks!
Sweet or Sour? Sweet
If you were stranded
on a deserted island and could only have 3 things with you, what or who would
they be?
Laptop, satellite phone uplink, smartphone
The Important stuff!
Any advice for
aspiring authors?
Just to keep going in the face of the
hard slog and disappointments that are usual. If you love writing do it.
Where can we stalk… I
mean find you?(Links baby!)
Find Elodie online:
Where can we buy your
books?
Find Elodie’s books:
Thank you so much for
visiting with us today Elodie! Don’t forget to leave a comment if you like
Elodie’s books! And don’t forget to check out Winter Girl!
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