Today’s debut Egmont author interview is with Lindsay Eland, author of Scones and Sensibility. Lindsay’s also giving away a vintage lace handkerchief to one lucky winner!
Overly-romantic and overly-dramatic 12-year-old, Polly Madassa, decides to matchmake for the people in her small beach town…whether they want to be or not.
BIO: Lindsay Eland lives in the mountains of Colorado with her husband, their four kids, one dog, three rats, and the various other foxes, bears, and elk that venture into their backyard.
INTERVIEW
1. If you could meet any author in the world, living or dead, who would it be? What would you say to them?
I have to choose just one? I’m terrible at making big decisions like this, Chelsea! But, for you, I will try…I think above everyone else (like Roald Dahl, Polly Horvath, Shannon Hale, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte and Charles Dickens) I’d want to meet Kate Dicamillo because really…she’s just completely and absolutely brilliant. And when I got over the shock of meeting her and she got over her shock at having me standing there shocked in front of her, I’d probably say something interesting and filled with adverbs like, “You are so completely and absolutely brilliant.”
2. What’s your favorite dinosaur? How do you feel about the Brontosaurus being an accidental mix-up of bones and not a real dinosaur?
I have to say that sadly the Brontosauras was my favorite dinosaur and I’m very distraught that it isn’t really one. But then seriously, I think dinosaurs were real, but how can they really know what dinosaurs looked like? I have a feeling that half of the dinosaurs are probably just jumbled up and we’ll eventually find out that they really looked like massive unicorns or something like that.
3. Do you have any “guilty pleasure” shows you watch? If so, what are they and what makes them irresistible?
We don’t have cable at our house, just a DVD player and a TV to watch movies. But when I go to my parents house where there is at least 2000 channels (which are mostly filled with men putting together ridiculously big cars or people redoing their houses or rooms or clothes) I do love myself a little Dog Whisperer…yeah, I know, I’m that pathetic. Still, I think Cesear is amazing and I love, love, love watching it. That show or the one show about people with addictions. It’s either pure innocence or plain old dirt with me, baby.
GIVEAWAY
Lindsay’s giving away a vintage lace handkerchief! How awesome is that? To enter, answer this question in the comments: if you could be any one baked good, what would it be and why? Contest is open to US/CANADA and ends June 2nd.
I would be a cookie. Yummy and gooey.
I loved Scones and Sensibility — such a cute MG novel!
If I could be any baked good, I’d be an apple-raspberry buttermilk muffin; nutritious and tasty. My husband, however, says that I am made of Tastycake.
Scones & Sensibility is such a sweet book. My daughter talks about Polly Madasa as if she is a familiar friend. They are definitely kindred spirits. :) I agree that Kate DiCamillo would be a pleasure to meet. She definitely knows how to evoke a mood of loneliness and longing while shining a light toward hopefulness and possibility.
What type of baked good? I will have to go with a simple apple crisp. It is a bit tart, a bit sweet, gets along well with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, and is a little old-fashioned. :)