#WriterWednesday Interview with Carol Floriani
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I’d like to welcome the wonderful Carol Floriani to the blog for #WriterWednesday. Keep reading and check out her new mystery! I was able to read an early copy, and it’s wonderful!
Hardest thing about being a writer: Sitting down in front of my laptop and staring at a blank screen.
Easiest thing about being a writer: Typing “The End” after completing a manuscript.
Words that describe you: Super-organized, introverted, impatient.
Words that describe you, but you wish they didn’t: Super-organized, introverted, impatient.
Something you’re really good at: Procrastinating
Something you’re really bad at: I’ll get back to you.
The last thing you ordered online: Disposable champagne flutes for the launch party for Invitation to Murder.
The last thing you regret buying: A “miracle” swimsuit that was less than miraculous.
Things you’d walk a mile for: I would walk more than a mile along a long and winding road to see Paul McCartney in concert.
Things that make you want to run screaming from the room: Standing around in high heels trying to make small talk at cocktail parties.
Favorite books (or genre): Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier.
Books you wouldn’t buy: Fantasy genre.
Most daring thing you’ve ever done: Years ago, I was kissed on the cheek by Shamu the Killer Whale in Sea World, San Diego. The trainer had me stand in a designated place next to the whale’s pool and then she signaled for him to jump up and give me a smooch. Oh, to be 25 and fearless (or crazy?)!
Something you chickened out from doing: Downhill skiing in the Berkshires in Massachusetts.
The funniest thing to happen to you: After heading to the concession stand to get some snacks at Yankee Stadium, I mistakenly returned to the section adjacent to ours and, of course, I searched in vain for my husband and daughter. Suddenly everyone in my correct section started yelling “Carol,” and I finally got to my proper seat.
The most embarrassing thing to happen to you: When I was a publicist at Simon & Schuster many years ago, I was on tour with an Oscar-winning actor who had written a memoir. I had arranged for him to play tennis, which he loved to do, right before lunch. We were on a very tight schedule with several television, radio, and print interviews arranged, and as we were heading to the racket club in Chicago, he decided to save time by changing into his tennis clothes in the back of the limo as I was sitting right beside him. I tried to remain nonchalant. I don’t want to drop any names, but his Oscar-winning role rhymes with Hen-Bur.
The coolest person you’ve ever met: James Taylor.
The celebrity who didn’t look like he/she did in pictures/video: Phil Collins.
The nicest thing a reader said to you: “I could totally relate to your book.”
The craziest thing a reader said to you: From a reader review, “The characters’ names are so aggressively fictional they break any sense of immersion.” (Huh?)
The first 8-track, record, cassette, or CD you ever bought: A Hard Day’s Night, the soundtrack vinyl album. I was 10 years old and had a little record player in my room.
A type of music that’s not your cup of tea: Hip-hop, Rap, Jazz.
My favorite book as a child: The Silver Spoon Mystery from the Scholastic Book Club and the Little Golden Book, Duck and His Friends. I still have both.
A book I’ve read more than once: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
About Carol:
After studying at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and graduating from Rider University, Carol Floriani worked for many years in the editorial and publicity departments of a Big Five publisher before ultimately embarking on her writing career. In addition to Invitation to Murder, her debut cozy mystery from Crooked Lane Books, she has written two previously published young adult novels, A Summer to Remember by Carol Robertson (Pocket Books/First Love from Silhouette) and Dancing in the Dark by Carolyn Ross (Bantam/Sweet Dreams).
Let’s Be Social:
Website: carolflorianiauthor.com
Instagram: @carolflorianiauthor
Facebook: (Carol Floriani Author) https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61566913933568
