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1. Please tell me the three most important
things people should know about you.
1.
I dig playing old-timers’
hockey, gardening, reading/writing/listening/watching mysteries and eating chocolate
fudge.
2.
My family is
large and Catholic, so I’ve got the T-shirt on sharing, squabbling, screaming
and lack of seclusion.
3.
Do not get
between me and anything chocolate.
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Love them both.
My life is currently immeasurably enhanced by a sweet giant of a Yorkshire
Terrier, a spunky mixed Maltie/Shihtzu and an amazing rescued Himalayan cat.
3. Tea or coffee?
·
True to my
British/Irish heritage, make mine a cuppa black tea and have you got any
chocolate biscuits?
4. Boxers, briefs, boxer-briefs, or commando?
(Either what you prefer or what you prefer on others.)
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Love boxers every
which way.
5. What was the first thing you ever wrote?
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Uncertain but
most likely a plea for more chocolate. Older siblings would have cleaned me
out.
6. When did you finally decide to call yourself
a writer?
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With my first
byline in the local newspaper on a personal essay about putting my first car
out to pasture. I knew then I could play with words as skillfully as with
balls, pucks and bats.
7. Which of your works are you most proud to
have written?
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My multimedia
online version of my supernatural thriller, Unnatural States, because it
involved working with my creative partner and a dozen actors and combining words
with videos, music, sound effects and photographs to create a new, thrilling
reading experience.
8. What is the scariest thing that has ever
happened to you?
·
Running home from
a construction site—hemorrhaging blood—when I was a kid, after I split open the
top of my head. Got a gnarly skull from the resulting twenty-five fat stitches.
Will make it dead easy to ID my body.
9. How did you end up getting published?
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I started with
personal essays in local papers and then had my first murder mystery, Teed Off!
published in 1996.
10. Would you be food or fighter if the zombie
apocalypse were to happen?
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Oh, I love
competition and scary, supernatural stuff so I’d be out there battling. It’s
only a flesh wound, after all.
11. What is the most daring thing you have ever
done?
·
Dedicating a year
and thousands of dollars into developing the multimedia version of Unnatural
States…in 2009 when mixing videos and sound with reading was bold and daunting.
Fortunately, the work was an absolute gas and the reading experience
exhilarating.
12. Would you rather be rich or famous--and you
could only have one-- and why? The fame
would be based on something good, not something like being the best serial
killer or anything like that.
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Rather have the
dough than the glam, thanks. The cash might last whereas the fame will be fleet
footed.
Book Blurb:
TEED OFF!
Crackling with wit and
suspense, TEED OFF! delivers three holes in one: a complex and engrossing
murder mystery, a fascinating glimpse into professional golf and a complicated
and poignant family dynamic. When coroner Riley Quinn tees off an investigation
into the suspicious death of her boss and brother-in-law, she finds herself
sand-wedged by a villainous environmental group, a mysterious Japanese
consortium and her estranged sister. In order to catch a cunning and ruthless
murderer, Riley must face a nasty past she thought dead and buried. The
chocoholic club pro quickly discovers that not all bad lies are on the golf
course; unfortunately, sometimes they’re much closer to home.
BIO:
Nicola pens mystery and
inspirational novels, creates interactive iPad books, podcasts about genre
writing, publishes ebooks and produces promotional book trailers, when she's
not playing Old-Timer’s hockey, growing blue poppies or eating chocolate fudge.
She is also the co-creator of Quillr®, a new multimedia storytelling platform.
Nicola lives in small town on southern Vancouver Island, BC Canada.
Please contact Nicola at:
Website: http://www.nicolafurlong.com
Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/novelnicola/
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6 comments:
Nicola, you are one funny lady. My strategy to reduce my chocolate consumption: I'm developing a taste for the expensive stuff, so I can't afford to over-indulge :)
Funny questions and even funnier answers! Thanks for the chuckle, Nicola. :-)
Very interesting! Loved learning more about you, Nicola. Love chocolate.
You do an amazing job of presenting yourself. Thanks for sharing.
Nicola, thanks for joining me today. One of my more interesting interviews, not that all of the answers aren't entertaining.
Thank you to Holli for the fun queries and to all who posted such 'sweet' comments. In your honour, several hunks of fudge have just offered me their ultimate sacrifice...and yes, the chocolate was topnotch!
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