Five Questions with Caroline Bell Foster (well maybe six)
On
February 2nd, Valentines Pets and Kisses, a boxed set of sweet romances, will
be released. As part of our campaign, we, the authors, thought it would be a
nice idea to give readers a chance to get to know a little bit about us. So
here we go.
Purchase links for Valentines Pets and Kisses:
Amazon US
Amazon UK
Barnes & Noble Nook
Apple iBooks
Google Play
Kobo Books
Five questions with Caroline Bell Foster (make it six)
(1) Tell us a bit about your novel
The
Feline Fix, is my cute novella featuring nerdy
scientist Wendy Wilde and ultra lovable Police Constable Callum Forde. I wrote
it in Nottingham, England which is where I live. I smiled to myself just the
other day as I was actually walking on the road, I’d set the first chapter in!!
Here’s the
blurb: After Wendy Wilde made the biggest mistake of her life, her boss sent
her home from the lab in disgrace. She was ordered to balance her work life by
Valentine’s Day or find herself another job. Forced to let loose and have fun,
Wendy meets Officer Callum Forde and tells him about her To-Do list. But first
she had to find out who else was feeding her cat and why was Officer Forde
intent on helping her find out!
(2) How
did you come up with the idea for this particular novella?
I’m a huge cat
lover, so a loud YES flew across the Atlantic when I was asked to join
Valentine Pet’s and Kisses.
Early 2015 I’d
written The Cat Café, so writing The Feline Fix was a natural
progression. It was so easy and fun to write, mixing two of my favourite
things, romance and cats. I’ve been in writing heaven.
(3) How
long does it take you to write a book?
Three years ago
I would say at least seven to eight months. In 2014 I did the National Novel
Writing Month challenge (50k words in 30 days) and was so scared of failing,
that I just put my head down and wrote, finishing the 50K in 19 days with a
very good manuscript to boot.
During that
process I veered from my normal writing techniques, I hadn’t plotted or
planned, just trusted my instincts and wrote. Now I will plan loosely, but
write a lot faster. However, it did take me five novels and many years to get
to this point.
(4) Tell us something about yourself and how
you became a writer.
Someone
once said that whatever you were doing before the age of ten, is what you were
destined to be before the noise of the world intrudes.
I
have two distinct memories. The first was seeing my name in print. It was under
a photograph of myself in the local paper celebrating Victorian Week when I was
around 8 or 9 years old. I remember looking at my name, seeing the black fuzzy
script and liking the feeling.
The
second memory, was when I was around 11 years old. I had this crush on a boy
and wrote him a love letter. In that cruel way of kids, he’d posted it on the
blackboard for everyone to see! But to me, I was really proud my words were
actually being read!
Unofficially
that love letter was my first ‘public’ works.
I
consider myself to be one of those interesting people who never really knew
what I wanted to do in life, aside from seeing as much of the world as I
possibly can. I have travelled extensively, and captured every memory, every
lyrical word and emotion and the brightness of other cultures in diaries. At
one point I had several diaries going at one time.
But
I knew I really had something, when, within the space of a few months I lost
two cousins and an uncle. In my grief I wrote. I worked as a travel consultant
during the day, but at night I scribbled away. Four months later I had a
massive 140,00 word manuscript and a healed heart.
It
was several months after that, that I re-read what I wrote and sent it off to a
publisher. I’m surprised it actually got read as I’d printed it off in single
lines and spent a fortune on bounding.
They
called me in, told me I had a gift, sent me off to take a creative writing
course and the rest is history.
(5) If you got
the chance to spend a day with any character from your books, who would it be
and why?
It would have to be Felicity ‘Fliss’ Pecora in Call Me Lucky. She’s a feisty girl, angry with life, raised by a
bi-polar mother in a rough and tumble neighbourhood.
A day with Felicity would probably start with her being incredibly tired
as she works the night shift in a call centre. She’s not a girly girl, so we
wouldn’t go shopping, but maybe go to a cosy café’ away from the crowds. We’d
probably go to a pub quiz in the evening and win because Fliss is one of those
annoying people who knows a lot of random facts. She’s fiercely loyal and I know she’d be my
friend for life.
She’s one character I’ve yet to let go, as I’ve
given her a cameo in The Cat Café and
thinking of putting her in my third and final ‘cat’ book. Oh, and her storyline
won me 2015 Medical Author of the Year award!
(6) Give us five random facts about you.
• I
once sold my pink sunglasses for a bus ticket into The Rift Valley.
• I
love Law & Order SVU and go into mourning when the season ends.
• I am
an AFSer (American Field Service) and travelled to Kenya as an Exchange Student
for a year.
• I
have a weakness for wine gums.
• I’m
a Taurean. A very, very typical Taurean.
Where can readers find
you?
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3370362.Caroline_Bell_Foster
Amazon Author Page: http://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B00GFRKRB4/
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Thanks for having me Jeanne.
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