I’m having a blast being interviewed by other bloggers on my book tour. Some are people I know and love (or even gave birth to). Others are people I’ve simply met on Cyberspace. So, today it is your turn, Dear Reader. Let’s do an interview on my blog.
Warning: This will only work if you play!
Ask me any question you want about writing, publishing, book marketing, eternal optimism, my favorite color (or child), the meaning of life. Anything you want. I promise to give you an answer. It might not be the right one, but I’ll do my best to make it fun.
You can leave your question in the comment section or email it to me at kathy@kathynick.com.
I know some of my most faithful readers are shy about commenting, so here is your chance! Leap in and ask me something!
I would like to know if you feel like the characters you create are part of you? Do you feel like some of them carry your personality traits? Do some of them allow you to experience traits that really aren’t your own, but in the book you live them through someone else? Do you ever create characters that you would never be able to relate to in real life? Or is that even possible? (I guess that’s a lot of questions!)
I ordered the book, by the way! Can’t wait to read it!
Hi Tracy! I do feel like my characters have some of my traits, or, in the case of Catherine, some traits I hope to develop someday. Several of those characters also have traits of people I have known. I’ve never been in Elmer, situation, but I can relate to sadness, depression, fear of rejection. I’m not sure I could ever write a character totally removed from my realm of experience or understanding. If I wrote about Martians, they would probably be from a small town on mars 🙂
Thanks for ordering the book, too. I hope you enjoy it!
I forgot to ask this during our interview. I know you have gone through some especially hard times. How have you gone through your heartbreaking trials and hung on to your eternal optimism?
Oh, good one, Lori. The first tragedy I remember in my life was when a high school friend died in a car wreck. When my mother broke the news to me, she started by saying, “Now, we are going to have to hang onto our faith with this.”
I didn’t even have any real faith at the time. But I saw that my mother did. And that it was a faith so real it could keep her from despair even when circumstances were desperate. I made it my goal to discover that faith and to hang onto it as she instructed.
The secret, I suppose, is in getting to know God well enough that I truly trust Him for the best outcome. I know some of those “happy endings” will never come this side of Heaven. But I do believe they will come. I think the Bible tells me so.
Are you going to write a sequel? I would love to hear more about the antics of the Glory Circle Sisters.
Oh, Debra! The classic question. Probably not a sequel in the traditional sense. But several of the Glory Circle sisters are nagging me about getting their own story in a spin off. So, I’m working on that.
What writing project are you working on now?
I wake up at night thinking about that one, Judy! I have two novels in almost-finished form and a third in the early stages. Plus a couple of non-fiction books in the brainstorming phase. I think my next project will be a novel with a Glory Circle sister as one of the characters, but I’m not sure. I plan to pray and plan that in December so I can start fresh in January.
Do you have a favorite character from “Thirty Days”? (figured I’d avoid the whole favorite child topic!!)
You are a wise woman, Carol. 🙂 I don’t think I have a favorite. I love all of them for different reasons. But I admit I do have a bit of a soft spot for Madge.
It must be the red hair.