Feb 19, 2018

Author Spotlight: Kristan Higgins!

 

New York Times bestselling author Kristan Higgins will be our special guest at the Lorelei's Lit Lair: Let's Talk Romance via Skype!


 
Learn some fun facts about the charismatic and super friendly, Kristan Higgins!



1. What genres do you write?
Women’s fiction and romantic comedy


 2.Coffee or tea lover?
COFFEE!


3 Name one thing on your bucket list
Hang-gliding.


4. Do you have pets?
Willow, doggy mutt
Luther, doggy mutt
Huckleberry: magnificent cat god


5. When I wake up every morning I... tell everyone in the house about my exciting dreams, even though they try not to listen.


6. Do you have any hobbies or particular skills?
I’m a baby whisperer, a champion bed-maker and a pretty good baker.


7. Weirdest or unique thing you own.
This Christmas, my daughter gave me a little cardboard box containing one of her toenails, that came off when she banged her toe. So yeah, that’s the weirdest. For now, anyway.


8. What do you hope readers will experience or gain when reading your stories? 
Laugh, cry, laugh again, and feel like they’ve made a friend.


About Kristan Higgins



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More books by Kristan!

 Kristan Higgins is the New York Times, USA TODAY, Wall Street Journal and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of 18 novels, which have been translated into more than two dozen languages and have sold millions of copies worldwide. Her books have received dozens of awards and accolades, including starred reviews from Kirkus, The New York Journal of Books, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal and Booklist. She is a five-time nominee for The Kirkus Prize for Best Work of Fiction, and her books regularly appear on the lists for best novels of the year of many prestigious journals and review sites.

The proud descendant of a butcher and a laundress, Kristan lives in Connecticut with her heroic firefighter husband, two long-lashed children, a couple of frisky rescue dogs and an occasionally friendly cat.



Follow Kristan on Facebook and Twitter, or visit her website.

 Now That You Mention It

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One step forward. Two steps back. The Tufts scholarship that put Nora Stuart on the path to becoming a Boston medical specialist was a step forward. Being hit by a car and then overhearing her boyfriend hit on another doctor when he thought she was dying? Two major steps back.




Injured in more ways than one, Nora feels her carefully built life cracking at the edges. There's only one place to land: home. But the tiny Maine community she left fifteen years ago doesn't necessarily want her. At every turn, someone holds the prodigal daughter of Scupper Island responsible for small-town drama and big-time disappointments. 




With a tough islander mother who's always been distant and a wild-child sister in jail, unable to raise her daughter—a withdrawn teen as eager to ditch the island as Nora once was—Nora has her work cut out for her if she's going to take what might be her last chance to mend the family.

But as some relationships crumble around her, others unexpectedly strengthen. Balancing loss and opportunity, a dark event from her past with hope for the future, Nora will discover that tackling old pain makes room for promise…and the chance to begin again.
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Articles by Kristan Higgins:

Publishers Weekly Soapbox "Never Read a Romance? Grow Up"


Huffington Post -"What We Teach Our Sons"


If you're attending Lorelei's Lit Lair: Let's Talk Romance  on February 22nd, 2018 and would like to ask Kristan a question, please post it in the comments. I hope to see you there! 


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2 comments:

  1. Do you ever write scenes based on something from your real life?

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    1. Great question, Sue! I’ll ask her tonight. Thanks for stopping by.

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