Straight No Chaser...Karen Neches

There's been much debate about how effective blog touring is. For those who track our blog stats, some have said the blog tour entry gets the least amount of comments. But that doesn't equate failure at all. First of all, I get comments rarely. Yet, my blog stats bear out that people are reading my blog quite frequently.

I tend to look at it as people who are browsing rather than shopping. But that doesn't mean they may not decide a day or so later, they really need what I was selling.

And me, personally, I hate shopping with a sales person over my shoulder attempting to assess how interested I am. Go away! I'll buy when I'm ready.

So, starting our new year off right is my first Straight, No Chaser featuring GCC Czarina, Karin Gillespie (writing as Karen Neches) and her book Earthly Pleasures. Browse at your leisure.

Clichés

Which cliché best describes you as an author?

Brooding Hemingway type

Eclectic Toni Morrison

KN: Candace Bushnell Zeitgeist

Make up your own author cliché


Stereotypes

Complete this sentence: I’m a total….from my BLANK to my BLANK, I could write the book on being BLANK

KN: I’m a total pop culture freak. From my People magazine subscription to my trolling the Internet for juicy gossip, I could write the book on being a voyeur.

You and me both, sister.

Pop Culture References

Using either television, film or literary references, give us the one or two sentence pitch you’d give film agents about Earthly Pleasures:


KN: Lovely Bones meets Bridget Jones

If you did an informercial for your book, who would be the perfect celeb to serve as the pitch guy or gal?

KN: Kate Hudson because she has a sunny, angelic look like my main character Skye, who is a greeter in Heaven.


Stalkerazzi

Complete this sentence: It’s a good thing I’m not a stalker or else XX would be in trouble...

KN: It's a good thing I'm not a stalker or else Adam Pascal (of Rent fame) would be in trouble because I can’t get enough of his brooding pretty-boy good looks.

History Lesson

A lot of times, authors start a book with one concept in mind (especially us pantsters) and end up with a totally different story. For your most current book tell us where you story started and ultimately ended.

KN: My book started out about as just a concept (sort of chick lit in heaven) and ended up with more plot twists than you can shake a stick at.


Those crazy desert Island Questions

You’re on a desert island with a cell phone. Miraculously it has two bars and enough battery life to make one three minute call. Who do you call?


KN: My husband

Aww, ain't that sweet?

If someone were deserted on an island and came across your book washed ashore, what’s the one thing they’d take from it and want to share with the world once they got back to civilization?

KN: That all of the secrets of the universe are contained in five Beatle songs