Introducing the author of Here, Denise Grover Swank...
Denise is a single mom who lives in Lee’s Summit, Missouri raising five of her six kids. (The oldest has gone off to live on his own.) She loves to embarrass her children whether it be spontaneous dance parties in the kitchen or making her teens’ friends think she’s funny/cool. *gasp* (Even if its in her own mind.) On rare occasions, she is known to post stories about her crazy life on her family blog There’s Always Room for One More.
She keeps her sanity by creating worlds to escape to and characters to hang out with.
Onto the author This or That list...
Chocolate or Peanut butter?
Chocolate
Hot summer days or Cold winter nights?
Cold winter nights—better for snuggling
Hand- or Type-writing?
Type. My handwriting is nearly eligible and my fingers can’t keep up when I’m writing a first draft.
Twitter or Facebook?
Oh, hard one. It depends on my mood but lately I’m on Facebook more
Heating Blanket or Snuggie?
Heating blanket. My kids gave.
Most influential: School education or Life experience?
Life. Some things you just have to learn for yourself.
Blog or Journal?
Blog. I used to regularly post on my family blog, There’s Always Room for One More, until I began writing seriously two years ago. Now I have to drop in and clean out the cobwebs.
Road trip or Air plane?
Airplane. I’d rather get there faster and have someone else in charge of getting me to my destination.
Dogs or cats?
Dogs. I’m total dog person. I have two—a Yorkie named Fifi and a Maltese named Bella.
Ideal home: Big metropolitan house or Small rural cottage?
Rural cottage. As long as there’s a Starbucks close by. LOL
Sixteen year old Julia Phillips buries herself in guilt after killing her best friend Monica in a car accident. Julia awoke in the hospital with a broken leg, a new talent for drawing and false memories of the accident, in which she dies and Monica lives. The doctors attribute this to her head injury, but no one can explain how a bracelet engraved with her name ended up at the scene of the accident. A bracelet no one has ever seen before.
Classmate Evan Whittaker paid Julia no attention before the accident, let alone after. Now suddenly he’s volunteering to tutor her and offering to drive her home. She can’t ignore that his new obsession started after his two-day disappearance last week and that he wears a pendant she’s been drawing for months. When the police show up one night looking for Evan, he begs Julia to run with him, convincing her that Monica is still alive. Julia agrees to go, never guessing where he’s really from.
Thanks to Denise and Teen Book Scene!
LiLi
Thanks for having me today, Lili!
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