Straight, No Chaser - Jenny O'Connell
A-blogging I will go.
A-blogging I will go.
Hi-Ho the merrio, a-blogging I willlll goooooooo!
And I'm starting off with Jenny O'Connell's newest - make that TWO newest, Local Girls and Rich Boys.
Mmm...rich boys. Sorry, I dazed off for a second. So Jenny, let's chat:
TCL: Which cliché best describes you as an author?
JOC: Brooding Hemingway type
TCL: Complete this sentence: I’m a total….from my BLANK to my BLANK, I could write the book on being BLANK
JOC: I’m a total walking contradiction, from the bruises on my arms from playing field hockey every week to the three inch Calvin Klein stiletto heels and suits I wear to work, I could write the book on having dual personalities.
TCL: Using either television, film or literary references, give us the one or two sentence pitch you’d give film agents:
JOC: I guess I’d have to say LOCAL GIRLS and RICH BOYS are Juno meets Gossip Girl – stories that offer a glimpse into the lives of girls dealing with the confusion life throws at them while living in a place that feels like a ferry ride and a world away from everything until it’s transformed during the summer. Each book is told in first person from the point of view of a single character who was introduced vaguely in the book before, so it’s like a spotlight on one person with the island as the stage.
If you did an informercial for your book, who would be the perfect celeb to serve as the pitch guy or gal? And why?
JOC: I am terrible at questions like this because I am not a movie person, it would have to be a teen girl who’s down to earth, smart and just struggling with the stuff every girl goes through.
TCL: Complete this sentence: It’s a good thing I’m not a stalker or else INSERT NAME OF CELEB MINOR OR MAJOR would be in trouble because
JOC: Or else Matt Damon would be in trouble because I’d kidnap him and take him to a Red Sox game so we could share a couple of beers and laugh our asses off.
TCL: 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.
JOC: My books started out about summertime on an island and ended up about situations and problems that could happen anywhere.
TCL: 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?
JOC: My husband and kids, who happen to also have my best friends over for a party so we all get to talk.
TCL: 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?
JOC: That they could totally relate to the characters and what they were going through.
Which celebrity would you like to see put on a bus and dropped in the desert? And why?
JOC: There are so many, I don’t think I could choose – could we make it a train instead so I could fit more people?
Sure, Jen. All aboard! Next stop, the Mojave Desert.
A-blogging I will go.
Hi-Ho the merrio, a-blogging I willlll goooooooo!
And I'm starting off with Jenny O'Connell's newest - make that TWO newest, Local Girls and Rich Boys.
Mmm...rich boys. Sorry, I dazed off for a second. So Jenny, let's chat:
TCL: Which cliché best describes you as an author?
JOC: Brooding Hemingway type
TCL: Complete this sentence: I’m a total….from my BLANK to my BLANK, I could write the book on being BLANK
JOC: I’m a total walking contradiction, from the bruises on my arms from playing field hockey every week to the three inch Calvin Klein stiletto heels and suits I wear to work, I could write the book on having dual personalities.
TCL: Using either television, film or literary references, give us the one or two sentence pitch you’d give film agents:
JOC: I guess I’d have to say LOCAL GIRLS and RICH BOYS are Juno meets Gossip Girl – stories that offer a glimpse into the lives of girls dealing with the confusion life throws at them while living in a place that feels like a ferry ride and a world away from everything until it’s transformed during the summer. Each book is told in first person from the point of view of a single character who was introduced vaguely in the book before, so it’s like a spotlight on one person with the island as the stage.
If you did an informercial for your book, who would be the perfect celeb to serve as the pitch guy or gal? And why?
JOC: I am terrible at questions like this because I am not a movie person, it would have to be a teen girl who’s down to earth, smart and just struggling with the stuff every girl goes through.
TCL: Complete this sentence: It’s a good thing I’m not a stalker or else INSERT NAME OF CELEB MINOR OR MAJOR would be in trouble because
JOC: Or else Matt Damon would be in trouble because I’d kidnap him and take him to a Red Sox game so we could share a couple of beers and laugh our asses off.
TCL: 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.
JOC: My books started out about summertime on an island and ended up about situations and problems that could happen anywhere.
TCL: 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?
JOC: My husband and kids, who happen to also have my best friends over for a party so we all get to talk.
TCL: 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?
JOC: That they could totally relate to the characters and what they were going through.
Which celebrity would you like to see put on a bus and dropped in the desert? And why?
JOC: There are so many, I don’t think I could choose – could we make it a train instead so I could fit more people?
Sure, Jen. All aboard! Next stop, the Mojave Desert.
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