Today, I'm welcoming Beate Boeker, a fellow Avalon author. Her most recent book is called A Little Bit of Passion. Isn't the cover cute?
Joselyn: What is your favorite line for your most recent book?
Beate: My most recent books is entirely written in the form of e-mails from the heroine, Karen, to her best friend. Karen is a skiing teacher and has just realized that a man who gave her a hard time the year before has booked another course with her. She has nicknamed him "the turtle" because of the way he moves and looks. In her first letter, she describes what the turtle is doing to make her life difficult and concludes with this sentence:
"So if you read about the murder of a turtle in the Teton Mountain Range, make sure you get a good attorney, because it'll be hard to wriggle out of this one."
This sentence is typical for Karen's character and humor and always makes me smile.
Joselyn: Describing him as a turtle in very intriguing. It makes me wonder how she will come to like him. What one thing would make your writing space perfect?
Beate: I already have it! For my last birthday, my husband gave me a screen that is fixed on the wall and can be swiveled by 90 degrees so that my text looks like a real page in a book. I love to work like that.
Beate: Mary Stewart. She's one of my favorite authors, and the way she describes things just blows me away. My favorite books are Airs Above the Ground and Touch Not The Cat.
Joselyn: When the power goes out, what do you do? (Cell phone service is out too.)
Beate: Go to sleep. I love to sleep, besides, it's the warmest place to be when the power goes out (because then, my radiators stop working too!).
Joselyn: What do you do to celebrate a book sale?
Beate: Go out and have a sumptuous dinner at a Chinese restaurant with my family, with black bean sauce, dim sum, and baked bananas with honey. Yummy.
Sounds wonderful. Except the bananas part, not my favorite.
To learn more about Beate, check out her website at website http://www.happybooks.de and she regularly blogs at http://avalonauthors.blogspot.com/. (You can also find out about other great Avalon books there.)
To learn more about Beate, check out her website at website http://www.happybooks.de and she regularly blogs at http://avalonauthors.blogspot.com/. (You can also find out about other great Avalon books there.)
You can buy A Little Bit of Passion at:
Beate has generously decided to share an excerpt from A Little Bit of Passion with us :
