Cate: Please welcome Scott Pixello to my special Halloween celebration. Scott,
please tell us a little bit about yourself.
Scott: I’m a writer of (mostly) YA novels, 12 published to date. I’m
British but I live in Germany and I write an unusual blend of funny and
serious - designed to make you think and smile. Maybe even both.
Cate: Awesome. What do you love most about Halloween?
Scott: It only happens once a year.
Cate: Have you ever had an unusual experience you couldn’t explain?
Scott: Getting published - that’s a bit inexplicable.
Cate: I'm sure your publisher and readers feel otherwise! What frightens you the most?
Scott: The possibility that Chris de Burgh might make another record.
That’s a perpetual nightmare. All my books have a character who hates Chris de
Burgh, even those set in Roman-occupied Britain, which was a bit of a
challenge.
Cate: lol Ever gone on a ghost tour? Or ghost hunting on your own?
Scott: Nope. I’ve seen Scooby Doo. I was one of those meddling kids.
Cate: Weren't we all, at some point? Any favorite Halloween recipes you’d care to share?
Scott: Take one portion of screaming kids, add copious amounts of
chocolate, stir in nervous elderly neighbours and leave to simmer until the
Police arrive.
Cate: Now that is scary, lol. Tell us about your latest release, and where readers can find it
online.
Author: What Love Can Do is a rom-com about an exchange visit between
England and Germany. It’s set in Berlin and Brighton.
Cate: Cool cover. Care to share a blurb?
Scott: This is midway between a summary and a blurb - a blurbary, if
you will.
17-year-old Graham Stanley doesn’t believe in love at first sight. At
school, he’s had to read Romeo and Juliet and even watch the Di Caprio film.
Then Graham meets Katya, a German foreign exchange student and his life is
turned upside-down.
What does he do? Should he copy Leo? Should he get a fish tank? These
and other, less pressing questions are explored in a rom-com that straddles
Europe like…well, like a Colossus.
Over the course of a year, split between Brighton and Berlin and set
against the backdrop of a referendum on EU membership, Graham too must decide
where his future lies and more importantly, with whom.
Graham and Katya are about to find out…what love can do.
This is a romance like Graham’s rubber duck- it’s clean but not
squeaky.
Cate: What inspired you to write about the theme?
Scott: There are a lot of knee-jerk reactions floating around about
immigration and I wanted to explore that dramatically and encourage people to
think about it a bit more deeply. There’s also a lot of comic potential in
putting characters in culturally-unfamiliar situations.
Cate: Interesting! Anything else you’d like to share?
Scott: I’m currently eating some chips (fries to you
guys) but I don’t share, unless distribution rights have been clearly
negotiated beforehand.
What Love Can Do is available NOW right here:
Further links for all things Pixello:
General: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=scott+pixello
Cate: Thanks for joining the party, Scott! Happy
Halloween
