Interview with Maggie from Faithful

Hello everyone today I have hopped in my handy dandy time machine and have gone back to the year 1904. 1904 was a big year some things that happened are: the US gained control of the Panama Canal, the Benfica soccer team was founded in Portugal, and Kaiser Wilhem II of Germany makes the first political recording using Thomas Edison's cylinder. There is also a huge fire in Toronto that destroys much of the city but had no fatalities. There is a tornado in Moscow and the 3rd modern olympic games opens in St Louis Missouri as part of the World's Fair. In Russia the Trans-Siberian railway is completed and the first underground line of the NYC subway opens. In November, Theodore Roosevelt is reelected President of the US and in December Charles Dillon Perrine discover's Jupiter's largest irregular satellite, Himalia and in NYC the first Times Square New Year's Eve celebration is held. This is the world that Maggie was born into where the modern age is really just beginning and taking off but that the old traditions of seasons and society are still holding on.

Full Name: Margaret Bennet
Nickname: Maggie
Age: 16
Favorite food: Trifle – it’s a dessert with layers of sponge cake, custard and fruit. Not that I can make it, but Cook does it wonderfully. It’s very rich and yummy. I have to let out my corset after I eat it.
Favorite color: Green
Favorite number: Seven
Favorite kind of music: The new thing called “ragtime.” But I wouldn’t tell Papa I listen to it – he’d disapprove. It’s too light-hearted for him.

Please tell us a little about you.

I’m still trying to find out who I am. I think I’m getting an idea – I like photography, now that I’m learning something about it from my friend Mrs. Gale. But what could I do with photography? Women don’t work after all, do they? I’m supposed to get married to the right man, have children, do charity work…but as I think about it, that sounds so boring. But I do like pretty clothes. I like being taken care of. I guess you could say I’m confused. Do I want someone to take care of me, or do I want to be independent?

Tell me about your parents. How well do/did you get along with them?

Video interview with Janet Fox

Hi everyone! Today I have a very special treat for you, my very first author video interview. This video was shot at the fabulous Books of Wonder in NYC (you can see their famous Wizard of Oz books collection in the background!) Janet is so very sweet and amazing that she took time after the Class of 2k10 book signing in order to chat with me about her recent book Faithful. Alea, of Pop Culture Junkie, was kind enough to be my videographer and after filming was done she rushed to the front and picked up Janet's book. I apologize for some of the background noise that is heard and if you have trouble hearing all of the interview just let me know and I'll transcribe it below. Janet was very sweet and I had a lot of fun doing this. As always I'm incredibly awkward and dorky....but I think its becoming part of my charm....so just ignore me and focus on Janet!

This is cross-posted on Ticket to Anywhere.

Faithful Character Interview: Tom

Hello everyone today I have the great honor of presenting to you Tom Rowland who is a character in Janet Fox's debut novel Faithful. Faithful is primarily the story of "sixteen-year-old Maggie Bennet’s life is in tatters. Her mother has disappeared, and is presumed dead. The next thing she knows, her father has dragged Maggie away from their elegant Newport home, off on some mad excursion to Yellowstone in Montana. Torn from the only life she’s ever known, away from her friends, from society, and verging on no prospects, Maggie is furious and devastated by her father’s betrayal. But when she arrives, she finds herself drawn to the frustratingly stubborn, handsome Tom Rowland, the son of a park geologist, and to the wild romantic beauty of Yellowstone itself. And as Tom and the promise of freedom capture Maggie’s heart, Maggie is forced to choose between who she is and who she wants to be." (description taken from Amazon.com)

Full Name: Tom Rowland
Nickname: Tom
Age: 17
Favorite food: Ice cream! But only when I’m sharing with Maggie.
Favorite color: Blue
Favorite number: Five
Favorite kind of music: Mozart. The new phonograph I have – I can play a recording – amazing stuff – and listen to an entire Mozart sonata in my own house.

Please tell us a little about you.

I’m the kind of guy who loves the out-of-doors. My dad is a geologist who works out in the field mapping and collecting samples and I’ve been following him everywhere since I can remember. But I’m not much of a hunter. Not that I haven’t done my share of hunting; I just prefer my animals alive so I can watch them. Now give me a fly fishing rod and I could spend all day fishing. I have to work hard in school, but I have plans to attend the college in Bozeman, and hard work is what it takes, right?

Tell me about your parents. How well do/did you get along with them?

I have a lot of respect for my dad. He’s smart and quiet and he doesn’t mind taking me along with him when he works. My mom is a sweet, kind person who likes to volunteer at the local hospital – I guess that’s where I get my inclination for biology. You could say we’re a close family. We don’t argue much. Except maybe when I’m told to straighten up my room when I’m in the middle of a project. Even then I’ve never heard my mom raise her voice. She just gives me the look, you know?

What do you like to do in your free time?