Who's Pulling Jess' Strings?

"My name is Jess Sturman-Coombs and I love to write novels that capture the imagination. My stories seek to take you on a journey that thrills and excites.

I love to read and write and I've written many novels aimed at the YA and crossover market. My debut novel, Poker Face, is currently doing very well as an e-book and paperback available through Amazon, Waterstones and my website."

 

 

What was your first job?

When I was eleven I started working on the market, a ladies lingerie stall apparently. Basically we sold anything from pop socks to massive satin girdles, as well as knickers with the most important bits missing (I know!) and nurse outfits. I was eleven! It was a bleak and often very cold job. With 5am starts and vans to unload and display all before school and then having to do it all again after school, it was actually quite tiring. Also I couldn’t do the job in my school skirt so I had to get changed before 9am. Unfortunately, the attendants in the public toilets cottoned on to my ‘changing’ habits and they wouldn’t allow me to use their facilities (mean or what). I ended up having to find a way of making the shopping centre lifts jam between floors so I could get my jeans off and my uniform on. There is a knack and I’ve mastered it. Oh what fun I had! 

When did you begin writing?

I wrote at school and often received commendations in English literature. I hadn’t a clue how to punctuate or spell but I loved to write stories and poems. They were always full of meaning and were often quite deep and depressing but, I suppose, they reflected my feelings at that time. I wasn’t happy at school, in fact, I wasn’t happy full stop and my writing definitely showed it. I didn’t realise back then that, if I nailed the English language side of things, I could actually use the skills I had to earn some money. Instead I embarked on a crazy mish mash of jobs that finally resulted in me being accepted into a law firm. From there my future and prospects got much brighter. I owe that firm BIG time!

 

Where do you get your inspiration for your stories from?

Much of my inspiration comes from dreams and fantasies as well as experience. I have a very vivid imagination that has always liked to roam and wander. At one time it was a means of escape and I would live out whole scenarios in my head that could last for hours. In my head everything could go the way I wanted it to and I had all the control. The imagination is like a muscle and if you exercise it regularly it grows and develops. Mine has ended up like a freakishly massive bicep that’s actually too big for my head!    

Do you have a favourite place to write?

I like to be at home, it’s where I feel safest and most comfortable and it’s where I can truly be myself. That makes it the perfect place to write. I often imagine having somewhere by the sea and how it would feel to open up the laptop there but, in reality, I’d probably have to travel to get there and travelling scares the living daylights out of me! At the breakfast bar or on the back of the sofa where the sun shines brightest is the ideal writing place for me. 

 

Tell us a bit about your novel Poker Face

Poker Face is about a young girl who leaves school with nothing. She faces a future so painful and bleak that just the thought of it forces her to walk into the first law firm she comes across, and lie her way into a job. The senior partner watches her little performance and likes what he sees and, just like that, she secures herself an office junior position. However, not everyone is quite what they seem and she finds herself risking her life to protect an appeal file with incriminating evidence on it. Poker Face is a legal thriller series aimed at the young adult market but it is being enjoyed equally by adults. It is gritty and real and the characters are full of life and personality. The book is about finding security in the most unlikely of places and the importance of true love, respect and loyalty.  

You have some great reviews for Poker Face on Amazon. How does that make you feel?

Yeah I’ve been very lucky and people have been so kind. The reviews are important for a couple of reasons. One, they give others an idea of what they might be letting themselves in for. I really appreciate the role my readers play whenever they choose to leave a review. Two, the reviews give me inspiration and motivation when my insecurities are pestering me for my dinner money, and generally being the biggest meanest bullies ever to walk the face of the earth. I regularly go back to my reviews and read each and every one because they boost my writing confidence. I’m not a person who can pretend that what others think and feel doesn’t matter. It has always mattered to me.

If you could have any career (other than writing) what would you like to do?

Errrrm...hmmm...I would like to be an actress please! Ha ha! I always wanted to act when I was younger, from as young as I can remember in fact. Apart from the ‘C’ in English Literature the only other qualification I left school with was my very proud and quite shocking ‘A’ in drama. I like nothing more than the idea of playing at being someone else now and again. I get awkward around people and nervous when I’m out and about. When you act you lose those inhibitions and you become that other individual for a while. That character might handle things worse than you (which is a bit of a break from being yourself) or they might handle things better (which is nice to experience now and again). Pretending to be confident comes much easier to me than actually being confident.

When is the sequel to Poker Face coming out?

19^th December 2012! Whoop whoop! It’s sooooooo exciting! As I write this it is the evening of the 9^th and I am supposed to be editing my proof copy of The Puppet Master. I need to send it off to be printed! Don’t tell anyone but I am SO last minute!

 

Are you having a big launch event?

Oh yes! I’ve hired a theatre, The Deco Theatre in Northampton, and it’s a fantastic building. I can project my trailer and book covers onto the walls and decorate the venue in the black and white Poker Face theme.  I’ll be offering a gift wrap service and both books will be there...as well as lots of children (to include mine!) The people who work there have been awesome and they offered to bring round ice creams in the interval! How cool is that! I have to say the ice creams were a deal breaker as far as my children were concerned!

 

Where can people find out more about you? 

www.Twitter.com/JessSturman

www.facebook.com/JessSturmanCoombs

jesssturman.wix.com/jess-sturman-coombs/apps/blog for my blog.

http://jesssturman.wix.com/jess-sturman-coombs for my website.

Jess - Thanks for dropping by and telling us all about yourself and Good Luck with the launch.

Thank you so much for having me, Marie, and for being so incredibly patient over the time it has taken me to get these answers together! I know I can be a bit last minute but I’m not usually this bad! November and December have been ganging up on me...I blame them! 

 

Stocking Fillers

For under 5’s, with a truly seasonal theme.

“Teddy loves travelling around Santa's workshop on the big blue wagon! There is so much to look at and he has lots of elf friends. But Santa has a special task for Teddy - will Teddy take it on?”

The book has black and white illustrations so they can be coloured in.

A first chapter book with a fantasy theme, including a unicorn, a troll and a snow globe.

“After buying a beautiful snow globe, Phoebe finds herself pulled inside! Zoozer the unicorn has been kidnapped by a troll and is being taken to the evil wizard Mishra who wants to steal his powers. Summoned by the sorceress Vivien, Phoebe must find a way to stop him. How will she trick the troll? Will she succeed? Join Phoebe and her new friends Capstan the stag and Skimpish the wood elf as they hurry to catch up with the troll and save Zoozer.”

For children 6 and over. A time travel adventure set in China.

 “Put yourself in Jerry's shoes... His parents have been invited to China to take part in an archaeological dig. Because it is the summer holiday, he and his sister Sammy are going along. Jerry and Sammy meet some interesting people, and they find a beautiful hair slide. All seems great, but things are already starting to go wrong. Suddenly, Sammy thinks she is having visions from the past. They soon discover that the hair slide is linked to an old portrait in the museum and an old Mongolian tale. Jerry's summer is about to get very complicated...”

I hope you enjoy my books. They are all without violence and can be read independently or (for the older reader books) a chapter a night by parents.

Wishing you a Merry Christmas. Marie

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Life Changes

Today I’m delighted to welcome Jennifer Loiske, author of three paranormal books.

 

Jennifer Loiske is a Teen/Young Adult Author who mainly writes paranormal romance. She lives in Naantali in Finland with her hubby, two beautiful daughters and two unruly dogs. Jennifer is a total bookaholic and very addicted to dark fantasy, funny chick lit and paranormal romance. She is very dedicated to charity work and tries to help those in need whenever she can. Most of her royalties goes to charity, mainly to help families with epileptic children and epilepsy units in hospitals. Jennifer has published three books, IMMINENCE, SEDUCTION, CLUB NUMBER FIVE, and more is to come in 2013

Your daughter fell ill suddenly and as a consequence developed severe epilepsy. How did that affect your family?

Well, obviously it was a huge shock at first. I had to stay home and quit my job as a pre-school teacher, my hubby was working in a different city and we had just sold our house and were looking for a new one, so when Anna got a brain fever and after that severe epilepsy our world turned completely upside down. We knew little about epilepsy before but nothing could have prepared us for what was about to come. But we are all fighters and we survived. However, our journey is not over and as Anna’s epilepsy is relapsing Lennox-Gastaut type we have no idea what the future will bring to us. One thing is certain though; I would never have written a book if I’d stayed at my day job. But as things are I’m very devoted to the charity work and always willing to help others as I know how much a little help will do when you’re child is ill and your world is falling apart.

Do you find it hard to find the time to write when you have your family to look after?

Sometimes, yes. But I don’t need much sleep so I’m mostly working at late evenings and nights. When the house is quiet ‘my time’ begins.

 

One of your characters in the Shape Shifter series has epilepsy. Was it hard to write the scenes where the illness takes hold?

No. All I had to do was think of Anna’s seizures. I actually didn’t have that character in my book before Anna got ill. I only had some sketches and dreams that one day I’d finish my book but it felt as if something very distant. Anna’s epilepsy changed everything. I wanted or more like needed to add Marie, a young girl with epilepsy, in the story. I wanted to show that no matter how hard your life is you can still be a hero and I also wanted to share epilepsy awareness to my readers. I felt that the more I could share the more it helped both me and the others alike.

Have you had a lot of support from readers?

Yes. A lot of people email me giving their support. Many of them also have a story to share and I feel honoured to be the one they want to share it with. My professional email address is no secret and it can be found on my homepage.

I know some of the profits from your books go to an epilepsy charity. Are the doctors pleased that a character with epilepsy is portrayed in a work of fiction?

Oh, yes. Epilepsy awareness is something that can never be spread too much.

You have a variety of books listed on your website; some published, some in the planning stages; where do you get your inspiration for your stories from?

That’s a hard question. Sometimes an idea just pops in my mind. Sometimes I see something that starts to haunt me or sometimes it can start with very small things. A word, some lyrics of a song, dream or like in my upcoming novel, BLACK DIAMOND, an invitation to a birthday party. I usually get very obsessed with my novel ideas and they won’t leave me alone until I’ve written them down. So you can only imagine how many files full of ideas my computer holds!

When you write do you have your story planned out?

Yes and no. Usually I do plan the story in my head for a long time before actually writing it down but sometimes words are just flowing from me and when I’m finished I’m as surprised as my readers! A thought: Did I actually write that? Comes in my mind quite often. Thankfully, so far it’s been a positive thought.

What are you working on at the moment?

I have my spoon in many pots. I’m currently writing a sequel to my Immortal Blood series, taking part of a charity book project, finishing up my upcoming novel BLACK DIAMOND and the third part, CHANGE, in my Shape Shifter series.

What do you do in your spare time?

What spare time? Haha! I’m a bookaholic so I read A LOT. I also train my two beautiful dogs. Enjoy the nature, sail and ski and if I have an opportunity I go to gym.

Which do you prefer to read from – ereader  or book?

A book. There is nothing more satisfying than curling on the sofa with a book.

Anything else you’d like to say?

I enjoy connecting with my readers and other writers. So don’t hesitate to contact me or connect with me on Facebook and Twitter. If you have a story about epilepsy to share or you just want to chat, I’m more than happy to listen. My professional email is: jennifer.loiske@hotmail.fi

Thank you to Jennifer for sharing her story. You can find out more about her by clicking on the links below and to buy her books click on the relevant Amazon link.

http://www.jenniferloiske.com/

http://fi-fi.facebook.com/AuthorJenniferLoiske

https://twitter.com/JenniferLoiske

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5821849.Jennifer_Loiske

https://plus.google.com/113957037964303399030/posts

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_15?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=jennifer+loiske&sprefix=jennifer+loiske%2Caps%2C0

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Gift Ideas

With the Christmas season fast approaching I thought I’d put together a little gift guide – of course there will be lots of books on there – but surprisingly some other things too. There’s something for everyone; from youngsters to adults. Take a look; help out an artist and get something a little bit different. Simply follow the link to the relevant pages and be prepared to part with some money.

For books for youngsters, from the under 5’s upwards visit http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_9?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=marie+godley&sprefix=Marie+god%2Cstripbooks%2C194 or www.amazon.com\author\mariegodley  

For Poetry take a look at  http://www.treasurechestbooks.co.uk/ 












For the teenager in your life, especially if they are into wolves (especially shape shifting ones) http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_12?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=jennifer+loiske&sprefix=jennifer+loi%2Cstripbooks%2C249

A collection of horror stories can be found at http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_9?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=kizzy+lee&sprefix=Kizzy+Lee%2Cstripbooks%2C284

For a young adult intrigue story http://www.amazon.co.uk/Poker-Face-ebook/dp/B00655U9XC/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1353488284&sr=1-1  

 

Okay, I know, I promised something other than books – although how can you go wrong with a book as a gift?

For stunning and unusual pictures.  http://www.ahart-photography.co.uk/

 
For traditional jewellery http://folksy.com/search?t=items&q=dontworrybeadhappy&commit=Search

 And for jewellery made from vegetable ivory visit
http://shandmade.wordpress.com/
Thank you to Adam Hollier for allowing me to use his photo.

I hope this list has inspired you on your quest for the perfect gift.

 

 

Merry Christmas

Marie

 

 

 

Hopes & Dreams

Today I’m joined by Loretta Livingstone. Loretta has published three poetry collections.

“I wrote my 1st poem at school when I was ten - the teacher asked us to write a poem about a haunted house. I scared myself to death at bedtime for weeks with that one! I never took further education, although my teachers were rather miffed about that. Notwithstanding, I never found myself out of a job until I came down with M.E. some years later.”

 

What made you write (or continue to write) poetry? I started writing poetry at school, when we were set it for English lessons, and found I was rather good at it. Then a few years later my sister, a friend, and I started making up silly rhymes to go on the Christmas cards at Church. They more or less stopped, but I continued, and the Pastors enjoyed reading them out. It turned out people loved it when I wrote them poems. And of course most teenagers write reams of teen angst - yup! Been there, done that! I eased up a bit from time to time, in fact for 10 years or so I hardly wrote any, but in the last few years it's all started pouring out again! Do you write on a daily basis?  No, not at all. I can go several weeks without writing, then write 4 or 5 in a day. For Hopes, Dreams and Medals I did write quite a lot each week though. Normally, when I have enough, I start to think about my next book. Hopes, Dreams and Medals is probably the only book I will write to a schedule. Do poems come to you when you’re doing other things, like shopping? Sometimes! That's often how I get my inspiration. But sometimes situations just pop into my head. Also when I'm chatting away to God I tend to get my more inspirational verses. What are the reasons behind your themes for your books? And what made you decide to publish your poetry?  The first one, Fire and Ice, is a little bit of a mish mash. I hadn't written poems for a few years, but they were becoming much more frequent, and I found that people liked them, it seemed a shame to shove them in a drawer somewhere, but I didn't have a clue how to go about publishing, so I prayed about it and a few months later I discovered a way to do it. The rest is history. My latest two books are much more structured, but of course that comes with experience.     How has M.E. impacted your life? And has your poetry helped you at all?  The M.E. had a devastating effect on my life. It almost came to a standstill. Even now I can do so much less than people with normal health. I have to rest a great deal, which is incredibly boring! I am improving somewhat now, but still have to rest loads more than I'd like. I can at least write lying down! You recently did a book signing. Were you nervous?  Incredibly, as it was a reading as well, although I did used to sing with various (not terribly good) groups when I was younger, so I was at least used to having to get people's attention. I'm not sure I could have done it without that previous experience. And I was completely wrung out at the end of it. Are you working on any more poetry collections? Well I am still writing, though with somewhat less frequency at the moment. When I have enough work I will doubtless start putting it together into another book. But I have written 3 books within the last year, so I think I need a bit of a break now.   What is the most exciting thing happened to you since your books have been published?  One of our well known and well loved British athletes has just told me she definitely intends to invest in one of my books as it looks fab. (I'm assuming she means Hopes, Dreams and Medals) Anything else you’d like to mention?  Yes. 'Hopes, Dreams and Medals' and 'Jumping in the Puddles of Life' are both also available from Apple iBookstore from £1.99   Paperbacks are available in the U.K. From my own website http://www.treasurechestbooks.co.uk and hardbacks and overseas sales are available from http://www.blurb.co.uk/user/store/poetloretta   Thank you to Loretta for visiting me today. Please go to her Twitter or Facebook page for more information.   Twitter at https://twitter.com/L_Livingstone1    Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/lorettasuthorsblog

 

Author - Kizzy Lee

Today on my blog, I would like you to welcome horror author Kizzy Lee.

Kizzy Lee is a happily married mum of four kids and two dogs; she loves all things paranormal and has a head full of stories all trying to get out. She lives by the sea and could not live anywhere that didn't include a beach, finds the countryside scary because 'where is the sea shore?' no matter how much you search them fields there is no sand!
Kizzy Lee sews too, making dance costumes. She used to make pageant dresses but there wasn’t much call for it in England.

When did you start writing?

It's a time I remember very clearly, not just because it was so recent, but because it was a rather pivotal point in my life, I have a blog in my name and in August this year (2012) I could not think of a post so I wrote a short story for my lovely follower friends and they loved it and made such lovely comments all suggesting I should write a book so I did ^_^ I wrote my first ever book - a collection of short stories mostly horror stories, and I published it in September this year.

 

Did you always want to be a writer?

No in fact it never occurred to me that anyone would like my stories enough to actually by them, I panic every time someone buys a book in case they don't like it, but now that I have found such immense pleasure that I get out of writing I do wish I had started to write a lot younger it almost feels like I have wasted years of good writing time ^_^

 

You have four kids-Is it hard to find the time to write?

Well life is what you make it, so I look on my life as being a mum first, I have always adored being a mum, writing is what I do when the kids are all occupied doing something else, so a lot of my writing gets done either when they are all at school or really late at night when they have all gone to sleep but I like it this way I would not want anything to get in the way of my being a mum and I love the fact that writing works around my kids; it fits within those times when I would get bored ^_^

 

Your books are horror stories. Why that genre and is there any other genre you’d like to try?

This question makes me smile, because I have had a complicated life, others have said with the life I have had I should write a book, and I did - just not about my life ^_^ I love horror, but it has to be horror of a certain kind, it had to be not too gory and it usually had some kind of twist, I am very fussy on endings; I really hate a rubbish ending I am quite fussy, I adore anything paranormal, but when I write I find each story is only say 50% me, the rest of it just kind of pours out of me, part of me actually feels a little awkward because my first two books literally just fell out of me, all the stories were right there in my head my fingers couldn't type fast enough to keep up with the flow of words, they were not even edited  each story was fully formed and just needed to be put on paper, when I came to my third book; which was my first full length book all one story, now that was the first one were the story was there in my mind but in writing it down I actually worked hard, I researched, and I edited and improved, my fourth book I felt I had improved even more and I felt I was finally the horror writer I wanted to be. I love horror that makes you scared of ordinary situations, and I guess I love horror because it is a chance to escape from reality and to explore situations that I would never entertain in life, and I just like a good old hiding behind the cushion kind of fright ^_^.  As to your other question well I had once thought I would be good at the erotica style writing but I feel the market is saturated at the moment and if I was to do something in that genre it would need to be something different something to make people think I couldn't do straight erotica I find it hard to read too much of, I always found the best piece of advice I was ever given was to write the book you want to read and that is always some kind of paranormal horror ^_^ 

Where do you get your inspiration from for your stories?

Oh crikey it's hard to say really, a lot of them - my stories- are already in my head and I don't really know where they come from because I have always chose comedy as my main reading matter, I own every Terry Pratchett book there ever was, I even have a signed one ^_^ and sometimes I have two copies of the same one just because I love his writing that much same with Douglas Adams I have everything he wrote too, so I am not sure why I should be inspired to write horror ^_^ people would probably assume I have shelves full of Stephen King or something but no I don't own a single one, I am not keen on his endings ^_^ so no authors have inspired me but I do have a morbid imagination ^_^ even as a child I would always see something that others would not think twice about but I would see it and think hmm what if..........and usually the what if turned gruesome ^_^ , I have to keep a supply of little notepads, I even carry one in my bag because I get ideas all the time and I have to write them down I have filled so many notepads it's mad ^_^, if the news comes on the TV for instance I will never hear half of it because part way through one little sentence uttered by the newscaster will bring about a little fountain of ideas and I just start scribbling them all down in my notepad ^_^, I am very keen on art and a lot of pictures will inspire me, or sometimes  a good photo, especially a good photo of nature outside, anything showing the autumnal season and that's me scribbling away for half an hour, sometimes a whole paragraph pops in my head so I scribble it down and I know one day it will fit perfectly in some story I am writing ^_^, I am very observant I notice little thing, details, walking down an alleyway and I will notice an old wooden door, I always have my camera and I take a picture of it and jot down any words or sentences that occur when I see it so I guess I should say I get inspiration from everywhere ^_^ and at the same time a lot of it is just in my brain.

Do you plan your stories out?

No, I never plan anything really, not in my life or in my books, plans are strange things they get broken, they restrict, for me I just literally surround myself with my notepads full of bits and pieces and type, I only require one thing when writing and that is sweeties ^_^ I like seeing my story unfold before my eyes, I like just seeing where a story takes me, and a lot of the time it wouldn't matter if there was a plan or not because the story just writes itself, I thought with my third one was it long enough? there was certain word amounts that denoted whether a story was a novella or a novel in the end I thought it doesn't matter the story was done I still don't know if it had enough words to be called a novel ^_^ but I knew it had reached its full potential so it was done ^_^, plans well they require some kind of organised thinking process and I am not very good at organised, it never feels natural to me, to me how could my story flow along its own course if it had plans that said otherwise? No I don't like plans ^_^

You say that you couldn’t live away from the sea. Have you always lived in the same place?

Gosh no ^_^ I have lived in many places, from very young my parents took me and my brother travelling, my father was a petrochemical engineer, he worked for an American company and his work took us to different countries, I have touched on my early life a little in my blog, I have mentioned one or two of the countries we lived in, of all the places we lived during my childhood my favourite was Czechoslovakia, that shows how long it was, it's not called that now, I loved the place and did not want to come back to England at all, I was 15 and they said 'oh we are going back' I swear I cried for a fortnight  ^_^, the people were so lovely and the place was gorgeous, but I was only young then ^_^. I carried on travelling even when I had met and married my first husband, we mainly covered Europe though, it was during those travels when I realised how much I missed the sea, I began to realise I was only happy when I heard it as I fell asleep or if I could take a walk and it was there I felt more grounded, more at peace. Then at one point we were travelling through Spain and I knew I just got this gut feeling, I wanted to come back home and have children and raise them in the little town by the sea where I had grown up. It was living in other countries, and living away from the sea, that made me appreciate what a nice little town this was and I had been lucky to grow up here and so I came home. Of course life has its own ideas and it wasn't quite that straight forward but I feel very lucky that right now I live a stone’s throw from a gorgeous beach in a tiny house with my kids and dogs and very happy with it all.

 

You are a talented sewer too, making dance costumes. Is that something you do to relax?

I like your questions they make me smile ^_^ sewing ahh well, I wouldn't say it was relaxing, ^_^ it is far too much hard work to be relaxing, the style of sewing I do is very detailed and all sewn by hand in very intricate designs. Sewing is something I had always done, right from the age of six I was taught to embroider, not really shown as much as given some thread, a needle and material and told to get on with it ^_^ through the years it became something although largely self taught it was a great talent to have, I loved being a child of the late seventies/early eighties were my formative teenage years and if you remember fashion was such that I could explore my sewing to the fullest extent and indeed I made all my own clothes and loved dying materials and making outfits from my experiments with dyes or weaving I can also knit crochet and make lace, so very often everything on an outfit is made by me, if anything going out for the night was more an excuse to make a super outfit than socialising ^_^, I was born a highly creative person though and I refuse to make what I call boring sewing you will never find me making curtains ^_^, the dance costumes came about because having three girls necessitated it, my oldest wanted to dance as soon as she could walk, she was kind of obsessed, not only were costume prices horrendous but they were never really had what we wanted, it soon descended into me making everyone in the dance school' costumes, now that was horrific ^_^ luckily she gave up dancing after a while and years later my second daughter tries dancing, she too did not like the costumes available and begged me to make hers, now by this time eBay had been invented so I took to selling those that they grew out of, then we saw pageant shows like toddlers and tiaras and I took to making pageant dresses, which was great I loved it, it seemed like the one area where I could really satisfy my burning creative edge I have and make some pennies as well, now none of the girls are at dancing any more but I still love the creating so I still make the costumes, it keeps my creative side satisfied.

Of all the books you have written, do you have a favourite?

Oh crikey no that would be like saying do you have a favourite child, no I love all my books equally ^_^

What books do you like to read and do you have a favourite?

I always read Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams and I suppose of everything Hitchhikers guide to the Universe has to be my favourite ^_^

 

Kizzy - Thanks for joing me today. I wish you luck with your books.

You can find out more about Kizzy by clicking on the following links

http://kizzylee.wordpress.com

http://www.facebook.com/kizzy.lee.543

http://twitter.com/KizzyLee3

https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/kizzylee

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