I was super excited to be asked by Emily of Lalone Marketing to take part in an ‘Author Speed Dating’ event right before the signing. Basically, each blogger that participated would get 5 minutes to talk to all 10 authors – hello! Yes, please! I was so excited because I’ve done interviews before but never in person – this was both amazing and scary at the same time, but it was an absolutely wonderful experience.

So, each day for the next two weeks, I’ll be spotlighting one of the authors that I got to sit down and chat with last Saturday – in case you missed it, Day 1 was S.C. Stephens, yesterday was J. Sterling and today we have…the lovely Amanda Bennett.  So…there is a story behind Amanda’s interview.  She was my half way point – I had interviewed 4 other authors, so I had gotten into a little bit of a groove, but I interviewed her right after S.C. and I don’t know if I was just overly excited or what but instead of saving the audio – I deleted it!  I hated myself – and we were on a time schedule so I couldn’t just be like oh hey – let’s re-do that!  :-\  Awkward!  Well…luckily I went out to dinner with her (and Tara Sivec) that night and with a few beverages and sitting on Tara’s lap, we recreated the interview.  It was so much better the second time around – especially the instances where alcohol and Tara influenced the answers.  I severely edited this interview – once again…so glad people cannot hear this audio!

We asked last week on our Facebook page for some questions for the authors – so I tried to incorporate as many of them as I could into the interview…I added the name of whoever ‘asked’ the question! Now…let’s get to the interview… 🙂

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