AUTHOR INTERVIEW
WITH
MARY SMITH & LINDSAY PAIGE
Mary Smith = purple
Lindsay Paige = green
PLEASE
WELCOME THE AWESOME DUO MARY AND LINDSAY!
THE AUTHORS BEHIND THE AWESOME; ‘PENALTY KILL
TRILOGY’ AND THE BRILLIANT NEW SERIES ‘OH CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN’.
You are both hockey mad! Who
is your favourite teams?
M- My favorite is the Chicago Blackhawk
L- My favorite team is the Pittsburgh Penguins, the BEST team
ever. ;)
Who is your favourite hockey player?
M- My all-time fave is Patrick Sharp.
L-I have two: Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin.
How did you both Co-authoring come together?
M- I had asked LP to read my first book ‘Melting Away’ the
Ice and soon after that, she asked me to co-write with her. I may have passed
out when she asked. We started soon after that and never looked back
L- Yeah, that’s how it happened. Ha-ha
Out of all your leading men in your Co-authored series: ‘who
is your favourite and why?’
M- My favorite is one that we will discuss at a later time
… keep a look out ;)
L- I can’t tell you mine because you haven’t met him yet! ;)
Who is your favourite leading Lady and
why?
M- I will have to say that Ellie is mine from Looking for
You! I love her innocence
L- I love Kinley, from the third book Finding Carson Lee.
Presley from the PK series is in a close second.
What inspired you to write?
L-Wanting to challenge myself and try new things.
M-What LP said! :)
What is next for the amazing duo?
L- We’re focused on our new series! :D So excited.
Whom
would you cast for your characters in your Co-authored books if it were made
into a movie?
M- I’m not sure because we typically use hockey players as
the ‘muse’ so, I would have to cast them to play the parts. Plus, it would get
a chance for us to meet the hockey players ;)
L-No clue. I’m terrible with this question because I never
think past how they look to me when writing it. And yeah, if we can cast hockey
players, I’m so there!
How long does it take you to complete a book together and get
it published?
M-It depends on the book and our schedules. I believe the
‘shortest time’ it took us to write a FULL Length book was 9 days, but it’s NOT
published yet. Sometimes that is the ‘longer’ part because of editing,
re-reading, fixing and waiting on the beta feedback.
L- And it depends on how busy we are and what solo books
we're working on that may need more of out attention. And yeah, takes a few
months to get it ready for publication.
What is the process you ladies go through when writing a
book together. Is there any rituals you do?
L- I don’t think it’s a ‘ritual’ per se, but we usually
talk/take notes and then dive in. The one thing that we do ALL THE TIME is
talk. We make sure that our ideas are the same or we discuss other plots/ideas.
It’s all about communication.
M- Oh yeah. If notes and plotting count as rituals, then
that’s ours. We have a doc with all our ideas and what we want in certain books
jotted down. We’ve started writing even more together. Instead of doing a
chapter each, sometimes we’ll both hop into the doc and write scenes together.
And we do talk. a LOT. It’s almost too much if that’s possible haha.
Where do you see your self in 5 years time and is there
anything you would like to share from up and coming books?
M- In five years I see LP and I still popping out
ideas together and publishing books. She thinks she can rid of me, but she
can’t. As far as upcoming project … keep a look out for more announcement for
Oh Captain My Captain Series. There might be more to come
L- In five years, I’ll be doing more of what I’m doing now.
Hopefully, still writing solos and books with Mary. Writing with her is like
crack and I’m addicted hahaha. And, I think Mary is going to be posting cool
stuff on her blog soon about the next book, A Hockey Player’s Proposal.
How do you come up with the brilliant plots for your
books?
M- This
is a team effort. Sometimes LP has a brilliant and then there are times that I
do. We always talk everything out and the ideas just start flowing.
L-Right, one of us has the initial idea and then we hash out
more of it before we start and as we write.
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