Cate: Please welcome Lola Karns to my special Halloween celebration. Lola,
please tell us a little bit about yourself.
Lola: I’m Lola Karns and I write contemporary romances, featuring food
and families.
Cate: What do you love most about Halloween?
Lola: Decorating the outside of the house. The kids and I spend months
planning, although I somehow I never seem to keep the pink flamingos alive long
enough to last through October. (exhibit A – Pinkie is nervous)
Cate: Love Pinkie's costume! Do you have a favorite memory of a Halloween past?
Lola: About 7 years ago, I woke up to a back spasm and a wet bed at
around 3 am, October 31st. By 10:30 am, I met my son, who played a trick by
arriving early, but is a treat in my life. I brought a pumpkin sleeper to the
hospital. My boy was the only infant in the nursery wearing a costume.
Cate: Aww, so cute. Have you ever had an unusual experience you couldn’t explain?
Lola: If something strange happens, I blame a cat, even if one isn’t
around.
Cate: Lol, great idea. What frightens you the most?
Lola: Other than something happening to my children? I’d have to say
caves.
Cate:
Sometimes it's no fun having an overactive imagination, I agree. And
nothing good ever lives in a cave! Ever gone on a ghost tour? Or ghost
hunting on your own?
Lola: I went on a walking ghost tour of Edinburgh, Scotland, which was
so much fun. The cobblestone alleys are creepy at night. I’ve never branched
out on my own, per se, but in high school some friends and visited a few of the
haunted cemeteries around Chicago.
Cate: Any favorite Halloween recipes you’d care to share?
Lola: Because I usually have extra frosting from birthday cakes, I make
graham cracker-frosting sandwiches. Yum.
Cate: Sounds good to me :) Tell us about your latest release, and where readers can find it
online.
Lola: Bad Traveler is hot contemporary with Decadent Publishing. It’s
available at
All Romance ebooks https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-badtraveler-1602838-177.html
Cate: Care to share a blurb or excerpt?
Lola: Sure - Recipes are a way of
life for Gwen Jones. Take one single mother, her infant daughter and a business
plan for a small town bakery. Combine with an eventful cross-country flight,
chance encounter with her college crush and a dash of motion sickness. Stir in
a few nuts, or family members, and large quantities of chocolate. Will this
recipe be an oven oops, or as delicious as her alma matter’s newest coach?
Having survived an attack in
Afghanistan that cost him a leg and a wife, Kyle Collins developed a strategy
to find meaning in life. He may be an assistant basketball coach but he refuses
to sit on the sidelines. When the runs into the woman whose lips are as
unforgettable as her brownies, Kyle decides to spice up Gwen’s recipes.
When a secret ingredient is
thrown into the mix, can their recipe for a happily-ever-after rise to the
occasion, or will it end up a hot mess?
Cate: What inspired you to write about the theme?
Lola: Three factors came together for
Bad Traveler.
1.
There is nothing fun about flying cross country with an infant. I have been the
screaming baby section and run through airports with car seats precariously
dangling from the stroller. I have pretended turbulence is “super-fun bouncy
ride in the sky” even though I’m more scared than the kids.
2.
Living near the home of Seal Team 6, I grew more aware of issues facing
veterans as they returned home from war. A series of reports in the
Virginian-Pilot piqued my curiosity.
3.
The bakery near me closed. I decided to invent one, which is much easier than
opening a real one.
Cate: Anything else you’d like to share?
Lola: Thanks for inviting me to your blog. These were fun questions and
I can’t wait to read the other responses.
Cate: Thanks so much for partying with us! And for the giveaway! (Be sure to leave your email address with your comment, peeps)
Lola: One lucky commenter will receive an ebook copy of Bad Traveler.
