Love Lost and Found. By Michele de Winton
1. When did you realize you wanted to be a writer?
It wasn’t so much a realization as
the gradual creep of discovering if I didn’t put words down each day I turned
into Ms Crankyville. I hadn’t dreamed of being an author growing up
(unless you count that brief moment when I copied out Where the Wild Things are
and tried to pass it off as my own). I was the
want-to-be-a-ballerina-when-I-grow-up type. I followed that dancing dream, all
the way through law school, until I left and went to teach dance in India. Yep.
India. The classically trained Indian dance teacher at the school I was sent to
wasn’t impressed. So I ended up strumming a guitar and teaching orphans the
words to Beatles songs before I wrote a play and we performed it, with Bengali
subtitles, to one hundred and one people. Approximately. Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction. But
sometime after that Ms Crankyville appeared when words weren’t a part of my
daily diet. So along with a taste for dahl and rice, I can perhaps blame the
fact that I lock myself away so often to type words onto the page on my
misspent youth in India…
2. What is my writing schedule?
I try and head straight to the page
each day but often I’m distracted by the call of emails and social media and
try and clear that out of the way before the blinking curser curses me enough
that I have to just start. I have a two year old and am about to have my second
child so my writing days are restricted to when I have childcare, and very soon
they’ll be restricted even more by when new baby sleeps and my eyes aren’t about
to call out of my head! But I’ve been writing full time now for about two years
and I couldn’t think of a better way to spend my working days.
3. What do you think makes a good book?
Relatable characters. I want to
like the people I read about whether they’re ordinary (and I love ordinary) or
out of this world. Sure they can have a nasty edge, but I want to know that under
their quirks and bad language, their histrionics can pretty much be put down to
similar fears and dreams as mine.
4. What were the last three books you read?
A little left field I’ll admit, but
Russel Brand’s My Booky Wook. And
then more in the romance vein, An Italian
Affair by Annie Seaton and Ride With
Me by Ruthie Knox.
5. What’s one thing you can’t live without?
Chocolate. Hot, cold, poured,
frozen or baked, nothing beats a good slab of chocolatey goodness – except
maybe a chocolate martini…
About Michele
Michele was born in the mid 1970’s amid a burgeoning sprawl of vineyards and new retirement homes. With two teachers as parents, her love of reading and books was cemented at an early age. Being a writer however, was not was she was supposed to do when she ‘grew up’. Despite training in law (or perhaps because of it) she has been a dancer, producer, writer, and all round arty type in various countries for most of her life.
Moving into writing full time in 2010 was like being a part of a contemporary romance – perfect! Creating new worlds for her characters, or rather letting those same characters show her their worlds is now a highlight of Michele’s daily life. And falling in love over and over as each hero and heroine allow their true feelings to surface is something very special. What a treat to do it every day! Now back home in New Zealand after travelling extensively, Michele writes from an office where the sound of the tapping keyboard is only rivalled by the whisper of wind in the trees.
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So what about you? What's one thing you can't live without?
As always, thanks for stopping by!
xoxo ~Marisa
Michele was born in the mid 1970’s amid a burgeoning sprawl of vineyards and new retirement homes. With two teachers as parents, her love of reading and books was cemented at an early age. Being a writer however, was not was she was supposed to do when she ‘grew up’. Despite training in law (or perhaps because of it) she has been a dancer, producer, writer, and all round arty type in various countries for most of her life.
Moving into writing full time in 2010 was like being a part of a contemporary romance – perfect! Creating new worlds for her characters, or rather letting those same characters show her their worlds is now a highlight of Michele’s daily life. And falling in love over and over as each hero and heroine allow their true feelings to surface is something very special. What a treat to do it every day! Now back home in New Zealand after travelling extensively, Michele writes from an office where the sound of the tapping keyboard is only rivalled by the whisper of wind in the trees.
Where you can find her:
Website – www.micheledewinton.com
Twitter - @Micheledewinton
Facebook (author page.) - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Michele-de-Winton-Author-Page/155966894515844?ref=hl
Pintrest - http://pinterest.com/MDWinton/
BLURB
Felicity Williams can't remember the last five
years thanks to an accident that wiped out her memory. She fled her old life in
hopes of starting fresh and found refuge working on a cruise ship. But her past
is coming for her…
Rick McCarthy wakes after a climbing accident to
discover that his business partner and fiancée has quit her job and
disappeared. He’s trying to accept that she’s run out on him, but now he needs
her signature to close a deal that could literally be life or death. He’ll go
to any extreme to get what he needs…even if that means becoming someone else to
win her back. But a little lie becomes a large mess when they’re stranded on a
deserted island together, and old misunderstandings might ruin their chance at
new love…
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Thanks so much for having me! Lovely to be here and have another book out in the world.
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