Monday, April 20, 2009

Ask An Author Week #2 Prizes!


Ask an Author Week #1 Prize Winner: Babyblue22!  Congratulations.  To recieve your books, please email me at: author@ingelahyatt.com (copy  & past into your email program) ASAP to confirm who you are. (I will be asking a question to identitfy you.)  You have 72 hours to respond, if you do not email me by that time, another winner will be chosen.

This week (April 20 to 26) we're giving away:





Twins for the Teacher
by Michele Dunaway
(print)
A Knight of Passion
by Ingela F. Hyatt
(ebook)

Down Home Ever Lovin’ Mule Blues by Jacquie Rogers
(print or ARC in pdf - author's choice)

To enter, all you need to do is leave a comment on anyone of the Ask An Author posts. The more comments you leave, the more chances to win!

This week we ask our authors: If you could travel back in time for a month long vacation, which Era would you visit and why?

Is there a question you'd like to ask the authors? Leave it in your comment, and you just might see the answer in future Ask An Author segments.


(Don't forget to leave a comment...or two...or three...)


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posted by Ingela F. Hyatt @ 9:45 AM  

21 Comments:

  • At 10:31 AM, Blogger Tee said…

    Back in time! Sounds stupid but when life was much more simpler and less stress. Oh I am srue there was stress back in the L. Ingalls day but I would like time to just sit, relax and enjoy my family, a good meal, a night without interuption from the TV or phone.
    Can you arrange this please!

     

  • At 11:31 AM, Blogger She said…

    Interesting answers by the authors. If I answered it would be 1920's Berlin (I want to know if it was truly as decadent as it is written about), or WWII (love the clothes, the movies, the books about it), or the Renaissance in Venice (fascinating period).

     

  • At 11:21 PM, Blogger Sandy M said…

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  • At 11:21 PM, Blogger Sandy M said…

    Medieval Scotland would be for me. I mean, after reading about all those medieval Highlanders, I'd love to see them and Scotland up close and personal!

     

  • At 10:10 AM, Blogger Babyblue22 said…

    Hey Ingela,
    I sent you an E-mail Yesterday.
    ~Afshan

     

  • At 11:35 AM, Blogger Caroline said…

    I'm always amazed when people say "the good old days" - but were they really? I had a great history teacher who told us how it "really" was in times gone by. Sewage flowing openly down the streets. Dead dogs in the gutter - the so called "Houndsditch" area of east London. Salt so highly prized it was a luxury - if only to preseve rancid meat! People who never ever washed. Can you imagine the smell. That's why perfume was so highly sought after. I was told that Elizabeth I only ever had one bath- and only then because her doctor said it would help her smallpox. Don't even get me started on all things medical! Like teeth pullers and no antiseptic for the bacteria. Phew! But saying that I would still love to go back in time to experience Ancient Rome at the time of Ceasar. Fab - but not for too long - I would miss my creature comforts - what no blogging?!! Caroline xx

     

  • At 8:59 PM, Blogger Shelley Mosley said…

    Caroline, I'm with you. Living without creature comforts (hot showers, flush toilets)...ugh!
    Shelley

     

  • At 9:01 PM, Blogger Shelley Mosley said…

    Caroline, I'm with you. Living without creature comforts (hot showers, flush toilets)...ugh!
    Shelley

     

  • At 9:01 PM, Blogger Shelley Mosley said…

    Caroline, I'm with you. Living without creature comforts (hot showers, flush toilets)...ugh!
    Shelley

     

  • At 9:21 PM, Blogger HOTCHA1 said…

    WOOOOOO HOOO BABY!

    I'D LIKE TO AS ALL AUTHORS THAT IF YOU WERE GUARANTEED INSTANT FAME LIKE NORA ROBERTS WOULD YOU CHANGE YOUR WRITING STYLE?

    ANOTHER QUESTION IS I SEE MANY AUTHORS WHOSE BOOKS I LOVED CROSSING OVER TO WRITE GAY BOOKS WOULD YOU TRY IT?

     

  • At 10:06 PM, Blogger Eva S said…

    Hi Ingela,
    thanks for this week, I've already found many new interesting author! More great books on my TBBlist!

     

  • At 5:57 AM, Blogger Liyana said…

    What about this: If you could have a conversation with anyone that's dead now, who would it be?

    loony_balooga_91AThotmail.com

     

  • At 8:57 AM, Blogger Me :) said…

    I don't think I would mind living without most of the modern comforts. I know adapting would take some getting used to but I am not sure I would like the idea of not having any disposable razers to keept the forest trimmed! Fuzzyness is not for me

     

  • At 1:19 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    does the world you create has a taste or texture to you?

     

  • At 3:13 PM, Blogger Shelley Mosley said…

    Wow! Seeing three copies of my response in a row is a reminder not to get impatient and hit the send button more than once. I'm sorry for the triplication!

    The questions you're asking are really interesting!

    If I were guaranteed instant fame like Nora Roberts, would I change my writing style? As far as romance writers are concerned, there's Nora Roberts, and then there are the rest of us! 8-) I adore Nora's writing style, and I think she's a true genius. Would I like to write like Nora? You bet. But I would add a little more humor to put my own stamp on it.

    Would I cross over to write gay books? Only if I could talk one of my gay friends into co-authoring with me. The gay community has gone through so much. Their experiences would add substance to the story. I'm a firm believer in "write what you know."

    If I could have a conversation with anyone who's dead, who would it be? It would probably be Elizabeth Cady Stanton. How did she raise a bunch of kids and find the time to work for women's suffrage? How did she find the courage to go toe-to-toe with the rest of the world? Where did she find the strength and conviction to fight for this cause for more than fifty years...and never get to cast a ballot?

    Do the worlds I create have taste and texture to me? Absolutely. And sounds and smells and colorful sights. Most novelists I know, me included, talk to their characters. How much more real can it get?

    I think that's all the questions for now. Sorry for the long post!

     

  • At 1:10 PM, Blogger Minna said…

    Finland, 1800s. I'd like to see the time when we were ruled by the Russian tzars and the idea of independence started to take hold.

     

  • At 10:29 AM, Blogger Becky said…

    To many places I would like to visit in the past. It was interesting to read what places the authors would like to travel to. If I had to choose, I think it would be the 1800's in the West. Something about living in open places and growing up on a large ranch.

     

  • At 1:10 PM, Blogger BecK said…

    Late 1800's for me. Why? I don't really have a great answer but being kidnapped by awful men who hold you for ransom because your father is rich and then being rescued by a man who doesn't even know you sounds great.

     

  • At 5:10 PM, Blogger Loretta said…

    With era do you enjoy writing about the most. Regency, Medieval Scotland, Medieval England, American West in the 1800's and 1900's or the Viking Era's.

     

  • At 5:12 PM, Blogger Loretta said…

    Would you rather write paranormal, histoical, or contemporary books.

     

  • At 5:09 AM, Blogger Joan said…

    I would like Medival Scotland. I love reading about all those kilted men.

    I am sure this has not happened to any of you but if you had a book that you felt really good about when writing it and it did not do well in sales how do you get over that?

     

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