Hi
Lorrie! So glad to have you at Spilling the Beans, where we can learn a little
bit about you, and your book.
I’m also glad to be here, Cate.
*looks around* Sweet blog!
Thanks! Grab
a cappuccino and let’s chat. Unless you have another favorite drink (alcoholic
or otherwise)?
I’ll have a cup of tea please. Two
sugars.
A woman after my own heart. Fur
or feathers, petwise?
Ahh, neither. But I do take care of my friend’s cockatoo
when she is away. Does that count?
Any
pet peeves? One thing that really burns your biscuits?
Ooooh, I have so many pet peeves,
it’s hard to pick out one. Let me think. Hmm.
It really bugs me when I’m in the
middle of writing a scene, I’m really into it, it’s flowing so nice, my fingers
are flying across the keyboard—then the telephone rings. I have to answer
because it may be family or an important call. Arrrrrgh! That sure has a way of breaking the moment.
Argh, I agree! Favorite
quote?
“Never argue with an idiot.” That’s
a personal one I tell myself every time people argue and don’t know what they
are talking about. Instance: when someone says to me, “Ah, anyone can write a
book, self pub, and make lots of money.” Uh, huh, sure they can, but let them
try it. Lol.
Lol, exactly. :) What’s
your ideal day like?
Oh, to have an ideal day. I wish I
had one.
Get out of bed, have my two cups of hot tea. Straighten the
house, then hit the computer. Stop for breakfast at noon (yes, I can’t eat
breakfast in the mornings) take a little break, then back to the computer. Stop
to make dinner and hope my eyes stop burning. A very long break here. Back to
the computer to finish up little things, like finish writing a blog article,
trying to learn how to manage my blog and maybe answer the new emails. With
eyes burning again after an hour, I’d get off and snuggle in my tilt back chair
and watch TV, snack, and clear my mind for a few hours, try to relax, then bed.
Now that is an ideal day for me. But, do they happen?
Sure! Maybe once every two or three
weeks. Like all author’s, there is real
life to contend with.
Too true. If
you could live out any fantasy, what would you do?
Be younger and travel to distant
lands.
Beethoven,
Beatles, Foo Fighters or Keith Urban (what type of music makes you rock out)?
All of the above, and let’s not
forget the oldies. I have a weird love of music. My mother used to get so angry
with me. From my tapes converted to CD’s now, I’ll listen to one by Tears for
Fears, the very next one on the same CD may be Chopin, then Smoky Robinson,
then an old one by Hank Williams Sr. Then Foreigner, REM, then Mozart, etc.
Hey, you asked. Lol.
Like my writing, I’m all over the
place with genres. From horror to romance and all in between.
We have the same musical tastes too. :) Does
music influence your writing? Do you have a music playlist for your book?
Nope. If I have music on, I would
listen to it instead of write. Yep, weird.
Not at all! I'm the same there too. Which
of your characters would you most/least to hang out with, and why?
Most would be Beggar, the ringtail
monkey from A Heap of Trouble. He’s so funny.
Least would be Morgan’s husband from
my short story Wild Blackberries. I don’t like him at all.
Beggar's a cutie! And I agree about Morgan *shudders*
While
creating your books, what was one of the most surprising things you learned?
That is was harder than I thought.
You authors made it look so easy. Wow, did I have a lot to learn. And learn I
did. I’m still learning as we all do with every story we write. We actually
slave over the stories, so many rewrites until you have almost memorize every
line you wrote. And it takes a long time to produce one story. At least it does
for me.
Where
can readers find out more about you?
My still learning to work blog at http://lorriejuly.blogspot.com/
I’m on Facebook, look for my page,
and try punching my name in on Amazon to see what I have available. I have some
nice reviews there for you to read.
Please share a book blurb and/or
excerpt.
Blurb
Sheriff Cole Walker is fearless, except when it comes to
critters. When a runaway ringtail monkey decides to adopt Cole and won’t leave,
he has more woes than he can handle.
Cole has a powerful yen for the newly arrived Mattie Wells,
the pretty woman who can jingle his spurs with just a smile. Mattie takes a
shine to men who have pets, and she adores the monkey. So do all the town’s
folk – until their smaller valuables start coming up missing. But Cole has no
choice but to put up with the thieving furball if he’s going to win Mattie’s heart.
But Mattie is holding a dark secret and refuses to get
married. Cole tries every which way to make her see that she’s the only
woman he wants, but with cattle rustlers and a miniature thief on the loose,
it’s all Cole can do to find time to take her to a picnic.
Cole and his deputies, Wade and Sully, are given a month to
find the thieves before Mayor Farley calls for outside gunslingers. Cole knows
that’ll spell disaster for the town and likely unemployment for him. Can he
overcome Mattie’s fears, bring the rustlers in, and teach his new unwanted furball
sidekick a lesson about property rights before the town implodes?
With the help of his deputies and his unwanted sidekick
Beggar, Cole must find a way to win Mattie’s heart, bring the rustlers to justice,
and bring peace once again to Cold Creek, Kansas.
Yep. Cole has a heap of trouble on his hands.
Available on MuseItUp at http://museituppublishing.com/bookstore2/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=367&Itemid=1&vmcchk=1&Itemid=1
And on Amazon
Lorrie lives in West Mifflin, PA,
thirty minutes from downtown Pittsburgh. She lives at home with her favorite
toy—a computer.
Once a gold medalist teacher/manager for
a big-name ballroom dance studio she has retired and now enjoys the quiet life
of writing and watching TV. But she loves to have lunches with local writers to
keep abreast of the challenging world of publishing.
Lorrie writes in many genres so you
never know what she will come out with next. She never wants to bore her
readers and enjoys the thrill of entertaining them by writing a good story.
She would love to hear from her
readers at struiff@msn.com.
Please put “reader” in the subject line.
Thank you for choosing this book.
Thanks
for spilling the beans today, Lorrie!
I hope I didn’t spill too many. :)
