The Questions
1) You’re
marooned on a small island with one person and one item of your choice—who is
that person and what item do you have?
Umm… do I have to
have another person on the island with me? If I was marooned on an island, I’d
rather be alone with my computer so that I could just write and write and write
without any interruptions.
2) Which
musical would you say best exemplifies your life – and which character in that
musical are you?
I’m not really
into musicals, but my favorite is
3) Take
these three words and give me a 100 word or less scenario using them: profile, blasting, congratulation
His profile looked
sinister at the end of the dark alley. She knew she should run, but the
blasting of the car horn made her step further into the alley. She peeked
around the corner and watched as her friends hurried into the waiting taxi. The
taxi pulled away. She breathed a sigh of relief. She wouldn’t have to listen to
their congratulations.
This was written
off the top of my head. Sometimes I like to do this especially when I am
suffering from writers block. It gets my imagination flowing and could lead
into a story.
4) You’ve
just been let loose in the world of fiction, with permission to do anyone you
want. Who do you fuck first and why?
Sorry, I don’t
kiss and tell.
5) What
is your idea of how to spend romantic time with your significant other?
Strolling on the
beach, letting the waves tickle our feet.
6) When
you start a new story, do you begin with a character, or a plot?
I begin a new
story with a character and then the plot. I like to get to know my characters
before I get them into trouble. Or like
question 3, I’ll use a writing exercise to get my imagination flowing and then
a character’s voice will pop into my head. Before I know it, I have a rough
first draft of a story.
7) If
they were to make the story of your life into a movie, who should play you?
Tough questions
because I don’t think they would make my life into a movie. I’d rather see them
make one of my characters’ lives into a movie. Now my characters get into a lot
of trouble. Sarah Kay in Ghostly Clues is faced with the lost of her grandma,
little jealousy of her best friend because she has a father and Sarah Kay
doesn’t, and then figuring out Grandma’s ghostly clues (which gets her in
trouble with her mom.).
8) Who’s
your favorite horror villain and why?
I’m not really
into the slashing horror type stories. My favorite type of villain is the evil
spirit type because the hero or good character has to search inside themselves
for the answers to fight this evil spirit. I think the good character has to
get more creative to fight this spirit than they would with the normal bad guy
villain.
9) Do
you have an historical crush and if so, who is it?
Not really. I was
never into history. So now if I put anything historical in my stories, I do a
lot of research.
10) Is
there a story that you’d like to tell but you think the world isn’t ready to
receive it?
Honestly, I don’t
think there is any story out there that the world isn’t ready to receive. I
think a writer can write just about anything that their wild imagination can
think of, and if it is well written and believable, the world will accept it or
reject it.
Thank you, Julie,
for hosting me on your blog. You have asked such fun questions that made me
think.
Media Kit for Ghostly Clues
Blurb
The sweet scent of lilacs
permeates the air around Grandma’s gravesite. Only Sarah Kay can smell
Grandma’s favorite flower, and they’re not even in bloom.
Sarah Kay and her best friend,
Mary Jane, believe the lilacs are a sign from Grandma’s ghost. The girls follow
one ghostly clue after another, uncovering a secret that Mom never wanted Sarah
Kay to know.
Grandma makes sure Sarah Kay
gets the message even from the grave. As the evidence piles up, Mom still
refuses to accept the possibility Sarah Kay’s father is alive.
Sarah Kay finds Dad’s parents.
A set of grandparents she didn’t realize existed. They make it clear her father
is alive but days and miles separate the father and daughter reunion because Dad
is a truck driver on a long haul.
Sarah Kay waits. The news
reports a fatal car accident involving a semi and Sarah Kay fears the worse.
She runs away which leads to Dad and the truth, Mom wanted Dad to remain dead.
Dad had faked his death so why not just stay dead. The ghostly clues of Grandma wouldn’t allow
Dad to remain dead to Sarah Kay.
Excerpt
The house was
blanketed in a quiet slumber. I snuggled under the sleeping bag with Allison,
trying not to think about ghosts, as I drifted to sleep.
Random pictures
floated in my mind like ghostly images.
I tiptoed among
tombstones and my heart ached as if I had lost something or someone. He had to
be here, somewhere. The gravestones rose like stone walls. No names engraved on
them. No dates. No R.I.P. Nothing. Just smooth, flat stones. Ghosts—grayish,
smoky forms with black eyes—floated over the tombstones. I shivered, suddenly cold, freezing. My breath
visible like a little ghost. I didn’t want to look at the ghost anymore so I
looked down at my feet. A tombstone with Grandma’s name appeared out of
nowhere. The earth moved. The dirt around the headstone broke away and gnarled
fingers clawed their way into the air, searching, grasping. Shriveled fingers
clutched my leg.
Something grabbed
at my leg—the hand, I screamed and frantically
wiggled out of my sleeping bag, bumping MJ as I tried to get away from the hand
I thought I felt grab at my leg.
Bio
I’m Kay LaLone. Ghostly Clues is my
first middle grade novel published by MuseItUp. I live in Michigan with my
husband and teenage son (two older sons and a daughter-in-law live near by) and
two dogs and a cat. I love to get up every morning and write about ghosts, the
paranormal, and anything that goes bump in the night. Or anything that interest
my characters. Making my characters come to life for readers is important to a
good story. I’m an avid reader of just about any type of book. I do reviews on
the books I read and post them on my website and blog.
Links
MuseItUp
My website www.kaylalone.weebly.com
My blog www.kaylalone.blogspot.com
Twitter https://twitter.com/kaylalone
Barnes & Noble
Amazon
Smashwords
Thanks for stopping by, Kay!
Until next time, take care!
♥ Julie
thank you, Julie, for hosting me on your blog today. fun questions.
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