February
1st
The NEXT BIG THING Blog Hop!
By
Darlene Panzera
Indie author DV
Berkom (www.dvberkom.com) tagged me in the Next Best Thing Blog Hop, where you get to
answer a set of questions about your current release or a work in progress
(WIP). (Check out her new release, Bad
Traffick, a Leine Basso Novel. The first book in the series, Serial Date, was awarded the Awsome
Indies Seal of Approval.) And now, on with the show!
THE NEXT BIG THING…Blog Hop questions:
What is the title of your book? BET YOU'LL MARRY ME
Where did the idea come from for the book? I was inspired by my
love of horses to write a story set on a ranch. I have two horses of my own and
based the fictional town of Pine on the real life town of Winthrop on the eastern
slopes of the Cascade Mountains of Washington State. The main characters were
developed to spar back and forth with the sweet, fun-loving banter I enjoy.
What genre does your book fall under? Sweet Contemporary Romance.
Which actors would you choose to play your characters in a movie
rendition? Ashton Kucher and a beautiful long-haired unknown actress with a
great smile.
What is the one-sentence synopsis of your book? A wealthy CEO
bets a stubborn female rancher $10,000. he can get her to marry him within 5
weeks.
Will your book be self-published or represented by an agency? BET
YOU'LL MARRY ME is published with Avon Impulse, a division of HarperCollins
Publishers.
How long did it take you to write the first draft of your
manuscript? This book has been a work in progress for many years. There were
multiple revisions and drafts before it was published.
What other books would you compare this story to within your
genre? NY Times best-selling author Debbie Macomber hand-picked a shorter
version of this story to be published behind her story in FAMILY AFFAIR. She
picked my story because she said my writing style is very similar to hers and
many other people have agreed. We both write sweet, family oriented, small town
stories with a bit of humor.
Who or What inspired you to write this book? I love to write and
wanted to write a romance with more fun, more intense banter between the hero
and heroine and so I decided to write this story. Because I love horses and the
country I set my story on a ranch. I hope my readers have as much fun reading
it as I had writing it!
What else about your book might pique the reader’s interest? As
the main characters, Jenny and Nick, battle it out with each other, there's a
cute romantic subplot between Nick's tough tomboy sister and one of the ranch
hands. There's also a pack trip into the forest to a fire look-out tower, a
back-country horse race, and the 'Legend of Harp Lake' which notoriously plays
match-maker to unsuspecting couples.
I’ve tagged the following awesome authors to continue THE NEXT
BIG THING…Blog Hop. Please visit their sites and give them some luv.
