Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out today's special guest Chloe Jacobs!
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Hello! I’m so very excited to be here today! Thank you to Shelley for
having me!
Shelley asked me to talk about the things I can’t live without when I’m
writing, so here it goes:
1. Laptop – A lot of
people use laptops, and that’s nothing really special. But for me, I can’t write
on anything BUT a laptop. I don’t like a desktop because I hate sitting at a
desk and writing. Desks always seem to face the wall and I hate facing the wall
when I’m working. I love being able to take my laptop wherever I want to write.
Sometimes I go to the living room couch so I can write and watch tv (which
somehow never results in many words on the page), or I can take the laptop with
me out on the deck and write beneath my favorite tree. I can take the laptop to
the cottage and write by the lake. I can take the laptop anywhere. That’s pretty
much the most awesome thing in the world.
2. Coffee – Again, not
really very unique, I know. Lots of people drink coffee, right? Then again, I do
need to have MY mug. It has to be my mug. Not the red and green Christmas mug
that my son likes to drink hot chocolate out of. Not the massive, blue mug that
my husband uses for tea, or the numerous mugs we have in the cupboard from all
the different radio stations in town. I need mine. It’s a plain white coffee mug
with a travel lid that I take everywhere. I even drink from it when I’m not
going anywhere, but the idea is that I can have the elixir of life with me at
all of the same places I bring my laptop!
(Hey! There seems to be a travel theme to my writing that I JUST
noticed right this minute!)
3. iPod – All right, so
there’s NOTHING original in this list. Sorry about that, but I like my music and
although I don’t need it all the time when I’m writing, I do need it when there
are distractions (like when I try to write in a public place or if kiddo is
playing in the background and making noise). I don’t like putting my playlist on
random while I’m writing either. I need to have the songs play in the order I’ve
listed them. Why? Because the familiarity of knowing all the songs so well, even
to the order they will be played, provides enough white noise so that it drowns
out other things, but doesn’t attract my attention enough to pull me out of my
writing.
4. My Dog – She’s a
cross between a Golden Retriever and a Blue Heeler. She’s got the long fur of
the Retriever, but a black coat with a little bit of grey on her chest. The most
beautiful dog EVER. And a bit stubborn. Now, granted, she doesn’t have to be with me while I’m writing,
but I like it when she is. She plops down at my feet and keeps me company. Every
once in a while I will reach out and bury my fingers in her long black fur.
Then, if I’ve been writing for too long, she’ll put her face between me and the
laptop screen to let me know that it’s break time. I usually end up getting
tricked into taking her for a walk and giving her a biscuit before I can sit
back down again.
5. Snacks – I can’t
write without something to munch on. My favorite treat is chocolate covered
raisins. I’d probably eat anything with chocolate on it, but I pick the raisins
because then I can lie and tell myself it’s sort-of healthy for me. If there
aren’t any more raisins, or I’m really trying to be good then I’ll have a
handful of grapes, or a bowl of cereal that I can eat dry. Cheerios is good for
that.
So, that’s me. I wish I could tell you I needed my Sam and Dean
Supernatural action figures to write, my Red-Fog zombie comics t-shirt, or my
pink grapefruit Lip Smackers…but those aren’t needed for writing, they’re needed
for LIFE. LOL
Chloe
Jacobs is a
native of nowhere and everywhere, having jumped around to practically every
Province of Canada before finally settling in Ontario where she has now been
living for a respectable number of years. Her husband and son are the two best
people in the entire world, but they also make her wish she'd at least gotten a
female cat. No such luck. And although the day job keeps her busy, she carves
out as much time as possible to write. Bringing new characters to life and
finding out what makes them tick and how badly she can make them suffer is one
of her greatest pleasures, almost better than chocolate and fuzzy pink bunny
slippers.
Her debut Young Adult fantasy, GRETA
AND THE GOBLIN KING, will be available
everywhere Winter 2012! In the meantime, check her out
online…
GRETA
AND THE GOBLIN KING
While
trying to save her brother from the witch three years ago, Greta was thrown into
the fire herself, falling through a portal to a dangerous world where humans are
the enemy, and every ogre, goblin, and ghoul has a dark side that comes out with
the full moon.
To
survive, 17-year-old Greta has hidden her humanity and taken the job of bounty
hunter—and she’s good at what she does. So good, she’s caught the attention of
Mylena’s young Goblin King, the darkly enticing Isaac, who invades her dreams
and undermines her determination to escape.
But
Greta’s not the only one looking to get out of Mylena. The full moon is mere
days away, and an ancient evil being knows she’s the key to opening the portal.
If Greta fails, she and the boys she finds stranded in the woods will die. If
she succeeds, no world will be safe from what follows her back . . .
Thanks so much for hosting me on your blog!
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