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Showing posts with label roger a price. Show all posts

11/05/2017

Question & Answer with Project Castaway

MeMe and my friend Meg from Project Castaway wanted to do a bit of a collaboration (of sorts anyway), so we came up with the idea to do question and answers with each other. I previously did a Q and A with Vengeance writer Roger A. Price and I thought continuing the theme would be a cool idea and Meg wanted to start doing more Q and A's on her blog as well so it was a good way for her to introduce it! We both hope you'll learn a little bit more about us through these mini question and answer's!

Q: So Meg, what is your blog about? 

A: I blog mainly about reviews on TV shows, films and musicals/plays. I blog my adventures that I have been on and now and again I blog about something I'm feeling at the time whether that'll be advice, food or a topic of interest. 

Q: Why do you enjoy blogging?


A: I enjoy it because I find that it is a great way for me to express myself and to say my opinions. It also helps me to relax at the end of the day.


Q: Why did you decided to call your blog Project Castaway?


A: It's not a very interesting story but at first I saw some blog names that had project in it and as my blog is a project for me I wanted to use that in the name. Then I was looking around in my bed room and found my game called Sim Castaway and came up with Project Castaway. Not very inventive I know, but I like it. 


Q: What type of blog post do you enjoy writing the most? 


A: I mainly like writing reviews on things and my adventures the most. I think that's why I do them more than other posts. I find it really interesting to look back on what I have put. 


Q: What have you got lined up for the future of your blog?

A: I'm wanting to start collaborating with people more. So I think that'll be the next step for my blog really.


Q: Is there any genre of blog posts you'd like to try out? 


A: I would love to try out more food posts as I haven't done much and I want to see what I can do with it. 


Q: When did your start your blog?


A: I start on the 3rd January 2015. So this is my 3rd year of blogging. 


Q: What do you find the most challenging about blogging? 


A: How to word things, sometimes it's tricky because you want to come across a certain way but you're not quite sure how to do that.


Q: What's one thing you wished you'd known before you started blogging? 


A: How to advertise my blog properly. I'm still learning how to do that really. I think it's a great way of connecting with other bloggers and it's such a tricky thing that I don't think has been explained properly. 


Q: Have you been to any blogging events? If not would you like to go to one?


A: I haven't, but I would love to go to one. I just can't seem to find any local ones.


I hope you've enjoyed this blog post as much as me and Meg enjoyed creating them. If you want to read my answers to Meg's questions then click here! 

If you'd like to check out mine and Meg's joint YouTube channel click here.

"Blogging is not rocket science, it's about being yourself and putting what you have into it"

Until next time,

Alice x 
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02/04/2017

Author Q&A: Vengeance by Roger A Price

Today I'm doing a Question and Answer with author Roger A. Price, a crime fighter turned crime writer. Price spent over thirty years in the police; retiring as a detective inspector in charge of a covert undercover drugs unit which achieved national acclaim. He served on various units and squads and saw service across the UK, Europe and beyond. Although Price cannot write about the events he encountered, he does base his crime fiction on his many experiences; some of which were good, some not so good.
‘VENGEANCE’ is the second novel in Price's 'Badge and the Pen' series which follows the fortunes of detective inspector Vinnie and his unlikely ally TV reporter Christine, where they both face the most unlikely of threats, as they race to save lives. This blog post is slightly different to my usual blog posts as this is part of the blog tour for Price's new book Vengeance. 

So Roger, what is the first book you remember reading or having read to you?
Not sure which one exactly, but my love of reading fiction came from reading Enid Blyton’s ‘Famous Five’ series as a child. I just loved the way her stories fuelled my young imagination and took me to different place.
Who is your favourite literary character?
There have been so many, but I love Lee Child’s Jack Reacher, and I’m not sure why? Child doesn’t develop the character over his books, as such, but I just love him. Perhaps the lack of authorial intervention simply allows the reader to fill in the blanks. It certainly works for me. I also love Stephen Leather’s Dan ‘Spider’ Shepard.
Which book have you always meant to get around to reading, but still not read?
Any of Earnest Hemingway’s. No excuses, I must go and buy one today. I love some of his quotes; like ‘Always write drunk, but edit sober’.
If you could only take one book with you on a desert island, which would it be?
It would have to be a long one, perhaps it would be time to give War and Peace a try?
What are you currently reading?
Just about to start Takedown by Stephen Leather. (Or should that be one of Hemingway’s? – I’ll do one next).
Who would be at your dream dinner party (alive, dead or fictional)?
Marty Felman, Doctor Who, Spike Milligan and Vinnie Palmer and Christine Jones, of course! Oh and Laurel and Hardy too.
What's the best advice you have ever received?
Don’t eat yellow snow!!
What's the worst advice you have ever received?
Do eat yellow snow!!
Who is your hero or heroine (real or fictional)?
Anyone who encourages others, who is positive and constructive. I can’t stand people who take pleasure in bringing others down.
Where are you happiest?
I quite enjoy it when I can get out on my motorbike on a sunny day.
Who would you like to star in the film of your life?
Clint Eastwood – but a younger version, of course.
Describe your best ever holiday.
My last one; it’s always the last one.
If you could be invisible for a day, what would you do?
Be very, very childish and have lots of fun.
If I joined you on your perfect day, what would we be doing?
Being very, very childish and having lots of fun.
What do you think is the best thing about social media?
It’s great to be able to connect direct with people who have read your work. When someone takes the trouble to tell you how much they have enjoyed something which you have created, it really, really inspires.
And the worst...?!

Photos of peoples’ lunches, or pints of beer???

Roger A. Price is also doing a Vengeance giveaway. If you'd like to enter please click here.

Vengenance is now avaliable to buy in the UK, US, Canada and Australia. To purchase Vengenance from follow the links below: 

Until Next Time,

Alice x
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