• Author Interviews,  Contemporary

    Contemporary Romance: Vertigo @Silvers_E #rlfblog

    Vertigo

    Elisabeth Silvers,
    welcome to Romance Lives Forever. Let’s talk about your book, Vertigo.

    Genre: Contemporary
    Romance
    Publisher: Boroughs
    Publishing Group
    Cover artist: Boroughs
    Publishing Group
    Length: 7,200
    Heat rating: Mild
    Tagline: Across a crowded
    subway platform two souls connect.
    Blurb: A top research
    scientist. A scientific journalist. A case of vertigo and a beakers worth of misunderstanding.
    It’s a formula for happily ever after.
    Buy links:
    What are your main characters’ names, ages, and
    occupations?
    Elise Carterette, late 20’s, Research Scientist
    Garrett McAlister, late 20’s, Scientific Journalist

    Interview

    How do you come up with ideas?
    Ideas come from anything and everything. Words,
    names, places, a gesture, an action, some long ago remembered memory.
    What do you enjoy most about writing?
    The creativity and imagination that I get to
    use in creating people, places and situations. Where no matter what struggles your
    characters may go through, they can usually find their happy ending.
    Where do you start when writing? Research, plotting,
    outline, or…?
    When I start writing a new story it’s usually
    just by the seat of my pants, letting the character tell me where they want their
    story to go. I’ll have an idea of where the story is going, but sometimes it twists
    in a totally different direction. For others, I will do the research first, and
    plot some, but I still like to just write and see where it takes me. Sometimes,
    I just sit and write the scene I’m working on or future scenes in my head, rewrite
    it until I’m happy with it, and then actually type or write it down.
    What did you learn from writing your first book?
    That I had a lot to learn about writing itself.
    When I look back over my first manuscript, I cringe. From then until now I’ve learned
    so much and feel my writing is stronger than ever, though it is an ever evolving
    process.
    Is your muse demanding?
    Yes…and no. Some days I feel she’s taken a permanent
    vacation to some tropical locale and left me to fend for myself, others she’s so
    insistent that I have to write or face the consequences of no sleep or not being
    able to concentrate on anything else I may have to do that day.
    List two authors we would find you reading when
    taking a break from your own writing.
    It varies from day to day, I’m constantly downloading
    new books on to my Nook, but I’ve recently read two of my favorite author’s latest
    books, Faith Hunter’s, Death’s Rival and Seanan McGuire’s, Ashes of Honor.
    If money were not an object, where would you
    most like to live?
    Scotland or Ireland. Places rich with history and
    where my family came from.
    As a child, what was your favorite thing about
    school?
    Hearing the final bell ring. No, not really,
    I mostly enjoyed my science and world history classes.
    Do you play any online, board, or role-playing
    games? Which ones?
    Yes. I’ve played World of Warcraft off and on
    since 2006, and even for a time Dungeons and Dragons with the same friends that
    got me into WoW.
    Tell us an embarrassing story that has to do
    with a pet. If you have no pets, a story about a significant other will do.
    In sophomore year of high school, I got a new
    puppy. A tri-colored Basset Hound I named Gandalf. I took him everywhere with me,
    and being the lazy eight week old he was I carried him around a lot. On this particular
    day, I was driving to the local college for a French Club function we were having,
    and Gandy was in my lap…I was turning onto the road I needed to go the parking lot,
    and his hind leg got stuck in the steering wheel, he was looking bewildered as he
    was half dragged out of the one arm I had holding him, and I was panicking as the
    wheel wasn’t turning as it should, and there in front of us was an electric pole.
    Quick action and assistance from my mom who was in the passenger seat, saved us
    from disaster. It’s a funny story now, but was quite scary at the time, needless
    to say, Gandalf never sat in my lap while I was driving again after that, though
    he tried, even when he was full grown.

    Please Fill in the Blanks

    I love pizza with pepperoni.
    I’m always ready for an interesting off-the-wall
    conversation or an ice hockey game
    .
    When I’m alone, I like to turn the music up
    loud and write, or read, depending on my mood
    .
    You’d never be able to tell, but I was a baby
    beauty queen and a goon on the ice (though a sneaky one, I rarely got a penalty.
    “Oh, did your skate trip over my blade?”)
    .
    If I had a halo it
    would be slightly crooked.
    If I could be any animal for one day I’d
    be a ferret, and do a weasel war dance, because it looks like fun.
    I can never cheat on a spouse because
    I know how it feels to be cheated on.

    Books Coming Soon

    Elisabeth Silvers
    The Officer and the Goon, a Lunchbox Romance published by Boroughs
    Publishing Group

    Find Me Here

    Website: http://elisabethsilvers.weebly.com/
    Blog: http://elisabethsilvers.weebly.com/a-writers-world.html