PostsLet It Snow Books: Interview with Alyssa Everett + Giveaway
As you'll get the hang of it pretty soon, in our Let It Snow Books 2012 event we wanted to introduce you to our favourite reads and (new) authors of 2012, and today's guest is another historical romance author I discovered recently, but whose loyal fan I've become with only one novel. Please give the warmest welcome to Alyssa Everett, and the book in question is (you can read my review here)!
Stella: Hi Alyssa, it's such a pleasure to welcome you at Ex Libris! :-) Let's talk holidays. Is there anything special you usually do for the holidays? Any special family tradition?
Stella: Hi Alyssa, it's such a pleasure to welcome you at Ex Libris! :-) Let's talk holidays. Is there anything special you usually do for the holidays? Any special family tradition?
Stella: Could you share with us your favourite holiday meal/dessert/candy?
Alyssa: I can't resist those haystacks made with chocolate and chow mein noodles--yum! Though since my husband's grew up eating Tex-Mex cooking, another of our Christmas traditions is making tamales to share with friends.
Stella: What’s your favourite thing about the holidays?
Alyssa: Family time together. I wish I could see my parents and my sisters more often, but we're scattered around the U.S. Right now I'm cherishing time with my children, including a daughter who'll be college bound in 2013.
Alyssa: I like giving people gifts they never would have bought themselves, but really ought to have. I gave my parents a Netflix subscription for Christmas a couple of years ago, and they've been watching entire seasons of shows like Game of Thrones and Boardwalk Empire ever since.
Stella: What makes you feel that Christmas time is finally here?
Alyssa: This is so sappy, but drinking hot chocolate and watching Hallmark Christmas movies on TV while I wrap presents. I'm a sucker for sentimental holiday movies.
Stella: Please complete: Christmas/the holidays wouldn't be the real deal without...
Alyssa: ...family.
Stella: Since this whole event is about the Best Books we read in 2012, could you share with us some of your favorite titles you have read this year?
Stella: We all love Christmas holidays, but I was wondering if there’s anything about them that you find annoying?
Alyssa: Well, as an introvert I find the sheer number of holiday parties pretty exhausting. My husband has four different work-related Christmas parties...and that's on top of all the functions associated with our kids, our church, and the organizations we belong to. I have a party to attend tonight, for example, and this coming weekend we have four parties and a Christmas concert. There are evenings when I'm grateful just to curl up at home with a mocha and the TV remote.
Stella: Let’s say you have the chance to spend the holidays with a fictional character, who would that be and what would you be doing?
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Stella: Oh, I LOVE his Mr. Knightley as well! :-D What would you ask Santa to bring you this year?
Alyssa: The inspiration to finish one of the three stories I've been working on!
Alyssa: I'm a sucker for holiday movies in general, but both "Bridget Jones' Diary" and "Love Actually" are high on my list. I also love "A Christmas Story". My father is a big Jean Shepherd fan, so even before that movie came out in the 80s, "You'll shoot your eye out, kid" was a Christmas catch-phrase in our family. And as for books, I'll put in a plug for my own debut regency, , which ends with an epilogue set at Christmas, 1815.
Stella: What would be your (bookish or not) New Year’s resolutions, if you make any?
Alyssa: Aside from finishing one of those stories? I'd like to be more disciplined and write a few pages every day. Perhaps if Santa brings me that inspiration I'm asking for, I'll be able to stick to my resolution.
My question for readers: I'm looking forward to the release in March of my next regency, Lord of Secrets. What are you looking forward to in 2013?
Thanks for letting me be a part of Let it Snow Books, Stella!
Alyssa Everett writes the kind of romances she hopes readers will find satisfying, yet not mind too much if their teenage daughters read–stories of inexperienced heroines learning to negotiate the pitfalls of love and marriage, and heroes striving to do the right thing.
Alyssa grew up in Florida, where from an early age most of her favorite books had dukes in them. She spent her formative teen years working at a nearby theme park, doing just about every odd job a person can do, from collecting garbage to captaining an African boat cruise.
She married her college sweetheart and dropped out of the work force a few years later to raise a family. Starved for adult interaction, she began inventing grown-ups on the page. Since she could make her heroes look any way she liked, she gave them topboots and expert tailors. The result was her first regency romance.
Alyssa sold her first regency, A Tryst With Trouble, to Dorchester Publishing. However, financial problems at Dorchester led the company to postpone the release, and the publisher suspended operations before the book could be published. Alyssa’s second regency, Ruined by Rumor, became her debut romance when Carina Press published it in May of 2012. Her next regency with Carina should be out in March of 2013. For the present, A Tryst With Trouble remains unreleased.
A fan of Halloween, the perfect shoes, and springer spaniels, Alyssa now lives with her husband and their three children in Pennsylvania, where writing continues to be her favorite excuse for putting off housework and aerobic exercise.
Alyssa loves to hear from readers. Find her on her website, , , , or Goodreads.
Alyssa grew up in Florida, where from an early age most of her favorite books had dukes in them. She spent her formative teen years working at a nearby theme park, doing just about every odd job a person can do, from collecting garbage to captaining an African boat cruise.
She married her college sweetheart and dropped out of the work force a few years later to raise a family. Starved for adult interaction, she began inventing grown-ups on the page. Since she could make her heroes look any way she liked, she gave them topboots and expert tailors. The result was her first regency romance.
Alyssa sold her first regency, A Tryst With Trouble, to Dorchester Publishing. However, financial problems at Dorchester led the company to postpone the release, and the publisher suspended operations before the book could be published. Alyssa’s second regency, Ruined by Rumor, became her debut romance when Carina Press published it in May of 2012. Her next regency with Carina should be out in March of 2013. For the present, A Tryst With Trouble remains unreleased.
A fan of Halloween, the perfect shoes, and springer spaniels, Alyssa now lives with her husband and their three children in Pennsylvania, where writing continues to be her favorite excuse for putting off housework and aerobic exercise.
Alyssa loves to hear from readers. Find her on her website, , , , or Goodreads.
After waiting five years for her fiancé to return from the war and marry her, Roxana Langley has been jilted! She may have longed for excitement, but this was not what she had in mind...
Who could possibly throw over a woman as beautiful and vivacious as Roxana? Certainly not Alex Winslow, the Earl of Ayersley, who has spent years trying in vain to forget his unrequited love. When he learns she's been abandoned by her cad of a fiancé, he finds himself offering a shoulder for her to cry on. Comfort soon turns into a passionate kiss—and scandal when they are caught in an embrace.
Only one thing will save Roxana from certain ruination: marriage to the earl. The match may save her reputation, but responsible, tongue-tied Ayersley is a far cry from her dashing former fiancé. She's convinced Ayersley is merely doing his duty...while he's sure Roxana is still in love with another man. Are they trading one disaster for another?
GIVEAWAY RULES:
Alyssa has very generously offered an ebook copy of to a lucky reader!
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Giveaway is open worldwide and ends on 5 January 2013!
Good luck!
