CASTING ABOUT: AUTHOR INTERVIEW AND GIVEAWAY


CASTING ABOUT
BY TERRI DULONG
ABOUT THE BOOK: In this beautifully crafted as well as uplifting novel, a bard of a acclaimed Spinning Forward welcomes readers behind to a lush Florida island of Cedar Key, where a vibrant shades of hibiscus as well as azaleas have been a undiluted backdrop to a colorful, quirky community.
In a four years since Monica Brooks moved to Cedar Key, shes found a home, a husband, as well as right away a business to love. Taking over her mothers bustling needlework shop is a acquire challenge, though Monicas sparkling plans have been waylaid by astonishing news. Her husbands ex-wife has been deemed an unfit mother, as well as control of their eight-year-old daughter, Clarissa, is to be transferred to Adam.

Going true from honeymoon to motherhood--especially when she's uncertain she wants children--leaves a routinely even-keeled Monica jealous herself during each turn. Yet in a place similar to Cedar Key, nobody goes it alone. With assistance from friends as well as relatives, Monica, Clarissa, as well as Adam begin to shape metal a close-knit family of their own--one which will need to be strong enough to withstand all a surprises set to unravel. ABOUT THE AUTHOR:Born as well as raised in north of Boston, Terri DuLong right away resides with her husband, dual dogs, as well as three cats upon an island off a west coast of Florida. A late Registered Nurse, she began her essay career as a contributing bard for Bonjour Paris, where she shared her travel practice to France in over forty articles with a fictional canine narrator. Terri's adore of needlework provides quiet time to develop her characters as well as plots for her destiny novels.
AUTHOR INTERVIEW:

1. Welcome, Terri Dulong. It is good to have one of your smashing books behind upon my blog again. Before we pierce on, can we discuss it my readers if we have a website which they can demeanour during to find out some-more about you?
Thank we as well as we might go to my bard website during www.terridulong.com as well as my blog, "Island Writer", at www.islandwriter.net
2. Where did we get a inspiration or thought for this book?This is book 2 in a Cedar Key Series. Readers of SPINNING FORWARD will recall which Monica is Sydneys daughter as well as this is her story. The thought for a book essentially was innate when my own son was going through a difficult control situation. we also wanted to concentration upon motherhood again as well as we knew we had to discuss it Monicas story of becoming a step-mom, which would engage a self-doubt upon her part.
3. How did a pretension of your book come about?Id adore to contend it was my creation, however, it wasnt. we had a couple of alternative titles in mind, nothing of which were meaningful. Trying to stay with a needlework thesis in a pretension isnt easy! It was essentially my ! editor w hich came up with a pretension as well as we loved it since it refers to Monica as well as how shes casting about in her life.
4. Do we see yourself in your characters? Which characters have been easiest or some-more difficult to write?I dont routinely see myself in my characters situations. However, we do infrequently see myself in how they action or react to certain events or people. Id have to contend which nothing of my characters have been difficult to write. Once we confirm upon a thesis or issue we want to concentration on, a characters pretty most take over as well as we go with a flow.
5. What books would we contend have done a greatest impression upon you, especially starting out? What have been we right away reading?The womens novella novels of a 60s as well as 70s always done a outrageous impression upon me as a reader. Barbara Taylor Bradford, Fern Michaels, Rona Jaffe, etc. Stories involving womanlike characters which would grow in a story, enabling them to realize their destinies. Im right away celebration of a mass a new reprint of Fern Michaels novel, Sins of Omission, as well as we cant put it down. Great characters as well as a plot which keeps me turning those pages!
6. What is a subsequent or stream book/project we have been operative on?Well, Im thrilled to contend which we not long ago perceived an additional dual book stipulate from Kensington for my Cedar Key Series as well as will be engaged with them through 2012. Right right away Im operative upon book 3, which will be released Nov 2011. This is Graces story, who readers will encounter in CASTING ABOUT, as she is Monicas most appropriate friend.
7. What is something about we which we would want people to know about we which we probably dont know?That we was not long ago contacted around email by a complete stranger in Englandand come to find out, she is my British cousin. Due to a WWII intrigue in England which my fathers brother had as well as unbeknownst to a family, he had a daughter. So over sixty ye! ars late r, she has found me as well as we right away have a womanlike cousin upon my Dads side which we had always longed for. And yes.truth is definitely stranger than fiction!
8. What is your most appropriate advice to anyone, together with immature people, who want to be writers?First as well as foremost, read! A lot! Especially in a genre which we goal to become published in. Secondwrite! A lot! Get your work critiqued by teachers, alternative writers, etc. Make certain we learn a craft of writing, such as character, plot, point of view, etc. as well as thenkeep writing. GIVEAWAY

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