An Interview with the Author
K.L. Shandwick
Enough Isn't Everything
(The Everything Trilogy)
Hi K.L. Firstly, I want to thank you for taking the time out to do this interview. I bet
you are extremely busy at the moment with Book #2' ‘ Everything She Needs’ recent
release and the up and coming blog tour for book #3's release, ‘Everything I Want.’
So thank you very much on behalf of myself and everyone at 'We Luv Books'. Ok
let's get down to the fun part, (settles down with a nice glass of wine and a bar of
1) Can you tell your readers a little something about yourself? The ‘down and
durty’ stuff’ if you have any!Okay, firstly thank you for having me. Pages such
as ‘We Luv Books,’ are very important. Especially for independent authors.
My full bio is on my website at www.klshandwick.com, but for those that don’t
know me yet, I’m married with grown up children and work in and independent
capacity supporting families as my day job. I have come to reading and writing
books later in life, mainly due to how difficult I found it as a child to do both.
As an adult, I learned coping strategies and I think having my children helped,
because I had to teach them to do the basics, which gave me a greater
understanding of how MY mind worked. I went to university as an adult when
my children were little and studied full time.Subsequently, I worked for many
years as a midwife in the UK and had delivered my fair share of babies.
(in the UK mw deliver about 80 of all babies born.) From there I have done
further studies which lead to the role I currently do. My friends tell me I have
a wicked sense of humor and my passions are music and skiing. If I could
ski down a mountain reading a good book, listening to The Killers or One
Republic it would be heaven!
2) What inspired you to put pen to paper, or finger to key board. Who do we have to
thank for your writing?Hmm, that honor has to go to my friend Russ. We discussed
a book which I didn’t feel gave me enough information to keep my attention.
He challenged me to write a chapter of a book as an exercise to teach me how
difficult it was, and the result was ‘The Everything Trilogy.’ It was never intended
as a published work, or for anyone but me, but he encouraged me to share it with
3) What is your method in writing? Do you plan or just let your fingers tell the story
and write?I never picked the subject matter, he said, English girl, travelling to the
USA, to study music. I just wrote, and the story went where Lily took me. I just asked
myself a series of questions about observations, feelings, reactions and a few other
things and the story seemed to flow. (I hope)
4) What do you do for 'me' time?, well there isn’t a lot of that right now, we are in the
middle of moving home, but whenever possible it is spending time with my family,
skiing when we can, and going to see live bands. (Maroon 5 being the last one,
thank you Adam I love you ;)
5) Alfie is my new Book boyfriend, nodding oh yessa. Who are your favorite
characters from your books and from other books by different authors?I liked most
of the characters in my books, but Alfie and Jack were great to write for. Lily drove
me nuts, but I was trying to convey a twenty one year old girl with very little support
in the first book, who has a passion which is her main driver. I liked writing Jack and
Lily’s humorous dialogues. My favorites from other authors well I can’t get passed
Kellan Kyle from Thoughtless, SC Stephens and Jonah Noble, from Interview with A
Master. Jason Luke. Two strong, male characters in different ways.
6) How did you find writing the intimate scenes between the characters? And
which scene is your favorite? {Laughing} I blushed when I wrote the first book
and my husband’s mouth gaped…A LOT actually, when I kept asking, “how does
this sound?”(I was getting funny looks too).The more I wrote, the more I became
comfortable with it. It’s like anything really, the more you do it, the more you feel the
emotions, reactions and passion of the characters. I came to love trying to convey
the thoughts and feelings of each of the characters and trying to keep them true
to their individual characteristics. Favorite scene? I have two of this kind, book #2
#Chapter 9, Book #3 Chapter 21. I can’t choose {laughs}.
7)Can you give us a little hint about where Lily is going to go in books 2 and 3,
without any spoilers of course!! (Tell me later in secret ;-) No! {Laughs} What the
series is intended for, is to convey the story of a girl that could be any girl making
mistakes, but I like to think she develops as a young woman. It would be great
if even one person recognized a situation that happened in the book that had
happened to them, which they can relate to. She has a few twists and turns to come
and there are some exciting times too, both for her, Alfie and their friends in the
book. I tried to keep developing the characters. I hope you enjoy it and I am excited
8) Finally, what should a reader know about you? What is the one thing the reader
should take away from reading your books?The Everything Trilogy is a story. That is
what it was intended to be. I am not some great literary expert, far from it. I wanted
people to be given a flavour of characters that they could get involved with. That’s
what I was aiming for, when I wrote it. It was for me and my friends really, so sharing
with you the readers makes me feel both nervous and very humble. It’s something I
never even dreamed I would ever do until it happened.
Thank you so much for taking the time out and doing this interview. I for one am a
BIG Fangirl of your work and will be following you and supporting you. Now I'm off
to finish this bottle of wine and bar of chocolate with Lily and Book 2 Everything she needs....
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