Hello Jaqueline! Thank you so much for visiting Written
Butterfly with me today! It’s such a
pleasure to chat with you. So tell me…
Q) Is this book part of a series? If so, can you tell us about it?
Yes! Challenge Accepted is a part of
the Cheat Chasers series. Cleat Chasers follows the passionate, exciting and
dramatic lives of Callie, Zade and their friends as they go through college and
navigate what lies beyond. There is baseball…lots of baseball as Callie, Greta
and Zaria follow the men in their lives.
Q) Can you give a fun or interesting fact about your book?
All
of the food or recipes that are mentioned are the ones my dad taught me. In the
story, Callie rebels against her dad for forcing
her to learn how to cool to support herself. Rather than tell him she
enjoys it, she puts up a fight. That may or may not have a little truth to it.
Q)
What gave you the inspiration for your book?
Baseball. Plain and
simple. Its my favorite sport – and its romantic. My husband and I went to Cubs games once we
began dating ten years ago and it became a tradition. Last year, the Cubs made
the playoffs and eventually won the world series. (I sobbed tears of joy and we
sprayed champagne in our place after. We still regret that) That is when the
inspiration hit to write Challenge Accepted.
Q) Do you have any habits that
get you in the writing frame of mind?
Music is key for me. Every time I
sit down to write, each character or book I’m working on has a specific
playlist. Once a song or two is essentially “assigned” to a book, I make a
short ten song playlist that I put on repeat. I know it takes hours writing and
you would think I get sick of the same ten songs, but I don’t. Even now,
whenever I hear a certain song out in public, I’m immediately transferred back
to a chapter or scene. Also, there is always
lots of coffee. Copious amounts of black, strong coffee.
Q) Do you plan all your characters out
before you start a story or do they develop as you write?
Callie and Zade formed in my head and
bothered me until I got their story out. The story developed from there. I sat
down one day and began typing and continued until my fingers and wrists hurt.
Callie and Zade seemed so real to me, so their interactions and personalities
were easy to write.
Q) How much real life do you put into or influences
your books?
I
remember reading once that every book someone writes contains elements of their
real life and I have to agree. Zade comes from a family of strong, independent
women. I do as well. Callie likes to
cook, but refuses to tell her dad he was right. Again, that hits home.
But the biggest element that comes from my real life
is the passion my husband and I have for baseball. The scene where Callie and
Zade meet, she is wearing a hat that is not well known at all, unless you were
a die-hard Tigers fan. My husband has that hat and every time he wears it,
someone out of the blue will comment. In the world of baseball, there are
diehard fans and I set out to write a ‘love story’ to baseball.
Q) What are your upcoming
projects?
The second book in Cleat Chasers has
kept me quite busy. Greta is different from Callie. More forward, confident,
and wild. Her story has changed paths from my original intention – which is
sometimes more fun.
Also, I’m working
on another series centering around sports. The Fair Game series follows three
couples—even if they don’t know it yet—as they tackle the first steps of
finding their dream jobs in the fast-paced
world of sports. They’re just
starting out in life and love…and everything between. The high-drama,
challenge-filled time in their lives where they are expected to have everything
figured out blends the excitement of a new romance with the anxiety of the
unknown. There will be more info to come, it’s still in
the works!
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