Authors 20 Questions

Here's your chance to get to know some great authors better! I've created 20 questions--fast, easy, shallow ones--and each month (or maybe twice a month) I'll feature a different author's responses. This isn't your typical interview, as you'll see...just fun facts. A quick read.

If you're an author and would like to do a 20 questions, just contact me.

Lani Diane Rich

The Fortune Quilt

Carly McKay's life is going just fine until she produces a television piece on psychic quilt maker Brandywine Seaver and receives a quilt with an enigmatic reading telling her that everything is about to change. And it does. She loses her job and her best friend (who proclaims his unrequited love for her). And her mother, who deserted the family seventeen years ago, returns, sending Carly into a serious tilt.

Convinced it's the quilt's fault, Carly races down to the small artists' community of Bilby, Arizona, to confront its maker, and ends up renting a cabin from her. Carly even starts to enjoy her reimagined life, until her old life comes calling. Now Carly has to decide what parts of each world she wants to patchwork in...and how much she's willing to leave to fate.

Lani's 20 Questions

1. Current writing project: A women's fiction tentatively titled NOBODY'S ANGEL, about a misanthropic woman who gets kidnapped in her own Airstream trailer by a woman who thinks she's an angel who is intent on fixing her life. Very fun to write!

2. Favorite food: I have a roasted salmon dish that I make which I love. Hmmm. Haven't had that in a while... darn. Now I'm hungry. :)

3. Cocktail of choice: That changes from time to time, but usually, chardonnay.

4. Favorite men’s underwear: Boxer briefs. That's a fence I'm happy to straddle! Wait... that sounds dirty.

5. Paper or plastic?Paper, but since I always forget to ask, plastic.

6. Currently listening to: Ben Taylor, Lady Magic

7. Favorite type of romance hero: Smart. Funny. Beta.

8. Best writing time:

9. What was the last book you read that was SO good you had to recommend it to others? Ski slope, as long as I could sit by the fire with hot chocolate and read.

10. Ski slope or beach vacation? Ski slope, as long as I could sit by the fire with hot chocolate and read.

11. Favorite part of your job: That blissful time between typing "The End" and collapsing in dead exhaustion. I call it the Magic Minute.

12. M&Ms…plain, peanut, almond, peanut butter or other? Peanut.

13. What’s your favorite day of the week and why? Thursday. The Office. John Krasinski. Yummmmmm.

14. Last movie you saw in the theater: I think it was Cars. I have kids. I don't see grown-up movies in theaters.

15. Laptop, desktop, Alphasmart or other? I use both the laptop and the desktop about the same amount. I can't say which I prefer, because they're good for different things.

16. If you could win an all-expenses-paid trip and leave tomorrow, where would you go? I'd spend a summer in the English countryside and learn how to make scones. And how to pronounce scones.

17. McDonalds, Burger King or no thank you? No thanks. Although, in a pinch, McDonald's.

18. Favorite story you’ve written: It's always the current one!

19. The most interesting place you’ve lived or visited: Anchorage, Alaska. Let me tell you, you haven't met crazy until you've met it coming out of a dive bar, squinting at the sun. At midnight.

20. Deadlines: Done early or chasing the FedEx truck to make it? Oh, totally chasing the FedEx truck down the street.

Thanks, Lani!

Be sure to look for Lani's book, The Fortune Quilt , out this month!

Read past 20 Questions:

Larissa Ione
Kay Stockham
Terry McLaughlin