Monday, March 15, 2010

This Week's Special Guest Gale Laure

This week's special guest at the Tiki Hut is international selling author, Gale Laure.

Gale is a native Texan. She was born along the coast of Texas in an area referred to as the "Golden Triangle".

Gale Laure spent her young adult years in Tyler in East Texas, and Houston, Texas. She has resided in a small suburban town in the Houston area for more than 20 years with her husband and family.

As mysterious as her mystery-suspense thriller book and novel, Laure writes under a pseudonym. She is very adamant about maintaining her privacy and the privacy of her family as a mystery!

With an attitude that "you can do anything you set your mind to", Laure travels forward in life fulfilling all of her dreams. She credits her huge imagination and true love for research for taking her to this career decision to be an author. She also credits some special people in her life which offered encouragement to become a mystery writer.

She has gained her experience for writing from her careers including owner of a business service, marketing and consulting company, owner of her own travel agency, employment in the medical field including office manager, a short stint as a legal assistant, a paralegal, and employment in an insurance office and CPA's office.

Gale Laure enjoys her career and life as an author. She finds inspiration from her readers, friends and family.

Laure's hobbies include genealogical research, movies, creating stories for the children around her, involvement in her church and people watching. By watching people she obtains ideas for the characters in her books. So watch out! You may see some of your own traits in a character in her mystery, romance, and suspense-thriller books. She loves the "human being" and everything about them, both good and bad.

Gale Laure is known for her informal Southern style of writing. Books written by Gale Laure include her current debut, mystery-suspense thriller, Evolution of a Sad Woman. It is selling internationally as an ebook download, Kindle and a trade paperback.

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An Interview with Keziah Elaine Theriot
By Gale Laure

Keziah Elaine Theriot - or Kizzy, as she is called – is the main character and the murder victim in Evolution of a Sad Woman. Kizzy is described as being a different woman with each of the five men that she loved. These five men join forces as strangers to try and solve her murder in this mystery, suspense, thriller and romance novel.

Kizzy, how many men have you loved in your life?

I have loved only six men in my life. My father, Alan, was the first man I ever loved. My father was strong and gentle all at the same time.

Tom Hastings was my first true love. Tom was the most fascinating man I ever knew. I could feel weak in Tom’s arms. He was so big and so strong.

William Newton was the smartest man I have ever known. He was actually brilliant about everything. He had dignity and poise. His smile could light up a room.

Evan Picard was the gentlest person I ever knew. He tries to be tough with other people, but he always treated me with gentleness. His hands were strong and soft all at the same time.

Jimmy Smithson was the sexiest, bad boy I have loved. Even Jimmy’s badness was good. Jimmy does everything with a passion.

Father C.D. Casmiersky was the best person I have ever known. He is a genuinely good and God-like man. He was pretty good looking, too.

How many men have you had sex with, Kizzy?

(Giggles). I don’t think that number is important. I can tell you, many people have found me sexy and none of them have ever been disappointed.

What did you want for your life?

(Kizzy answers very solemnly)
I always wanted happiness. I wanted to be a movie star with the camera lights flashing around me. I wanted to strut on a deliciously, deep, red carpet with one of the men I loved on my arm. I wanted to go home from the event to my children sleeping sweetly in their beds. I wanted to kiss their foreheads and cover their toes. I wanted simple peace.

If you could live your life over again, would you change everything? Anything?

To change my life would say that I had done everything wrong. I think I would repeat meeting and loving the six men I have loved. Would I change everything? No. Would I change some things? Maybe. I would not do everything differently. You see this time I would know the outcomes of all my actions in advance. So I would do everything the same. It would only be the outcomes that would be different.

Do you feel your loss of innocence was your downfall in life?

My loss of innocence? I never lost my innocence right up to the end.

Do you think you are a good person, Kizzy?

Of course, I am. I am as good as anyone else. I am much better than many people. Believe me, I could name some.

Were you a different woman with each of the five men?

I don’t know why you say that. I am just me – always. Maybe they were different with me.

Kizzy, what do you think about the men you have loved falling in love with other women?

(Slowly moistens her large pink lips) Those five men will never love anyone the way they loved me. Once I love a man, he stays loved. (Smiles) They will never, ever forget me!

Lastly, Kizzy, what would you like to say to the readers?

Don’t judge me. You don’t know me.

(Leans forward and whispers) And, you never will!

(smiles)

WIN - leave Gale a comment or question sometime this week and your name goes in the hat for an autographed copy of her book EVOLUTION OF A SAD WOMAN. Please be sure to include your email address, so we can contact you if you are this week's winner!

25 comments:

  1. Welcome to the Tiki Hut Gale!

    Love the interview with Kizzy. What a complex and interesting character. When you were writing EVOLUTION OF A SAD WOMAN, did you find yourself becoming depressed when you were in her POV? I know it's hard for authors to get their characters out of their head sometimes.

    What are you currently working on?

    Rest yourself, dig your toes in the sand and enjoy your week at the Tiki Hut!

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  2. No, I was never depressed writing about Kizzy. When you read the sequels you will understand why. Kizzy "lived" her life fully! Kizzy has so many adjectives to describe her. I know readers will love learning about Kizzy and her fascinating, complicated life.

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  3. Interesting interview with the main character - now I'll need to read the book to see how much of that background info pops up there!

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  4. I hope you do, Karen. Kizzy is all over "Evolution of a Sad Woman". Each of the five men are unable to forget her. Almost every day, I receive questions about Kizzy. People are fascinated with her. Good reading, Karen, and thanks for dropping by. GL

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  5. Great interview- Thanks. Good to hear from Kizzy- she is one of those "unforgetables"

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  6. Thanks for stopping by, Jeannie. I'm glad you enjoyed the interview and most of all - Kizzy! GL

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  7. I love character interviews!

    kissinoak at verizon dot net

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  8. Thanks, Estella. And thank you for dropping by the blog today. GL

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  9. I know more about Gale Laure which is great & I loved the insight into the character.

    marypres@gmail.com

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  10. This sounds like an interesting book; I look forward in reading it.

    Thanks,
    Tracey D

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  11. Thanks, Marybelle and booklover0226, for stopping by the blog today. I hope you will enjoy "Evolution of a Sad Woman". GL

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  12. Wow What a woman Kizzy is!

    jesslibrarian@yahoo.com.au

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  13. I've read a couple of character interviews and I must say I really like them. As an author do you do an interview with your character before or during your writing their book or only after for promotional reasons?

    Seems it really gets to the soul of the character and you can see how they act and talk too. Very cool.

    Thanks for sharing this with us!

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  14. When I am writing, Jerry, I only think of the storyline and so does my character. However, I finish writing, my characters still live within me. So they are there for me to question. I am glad you enjoyed Kizzy's interview. Thanks for stopping by the blog. GL

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  15. Jessica, You are right. Kizzy is quite a woman, indeed. This will be further explored in the sequels. GL

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  16. Is your book a murder mystery or more like a suspense? Is Kizzy's life told by flashbacks and memories of the different men in her life?

    And one last question, when will the sequel be coming out?

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  17. CJ,
    My book is classified under many genres. Some have said straight suspense, others mystery, some romance and even some a thriller. I guess it has all of these genres. It does have murder, mystery, edge of your seat suspense and thrills.
    Yes, some of the story is told in flashbacks, but not all of it. Some of it is in the present. It is as if the past and presnet meld together for the men. And the ending affects their future!

    I hope to have the sequel to this novel written this year. Then the process of my edits, the editors edits and re-writes begins. Hopefully the first sequel should be out in 2011.
    At least that is the plan. . .

    I have another novel, "The Bunkhouse" which should be out this year. The characters in "Evolution of a Sad Woman" will be making a short ameo appearance in "The Bunkhouse" and a clue is given which will be useful in the sequel.

    So hold on to your hat!

    Thanks for the great questions and for dropping by, CJ.
    GL

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  18. I love mysteries and it's really interesting how you are tying your stories together. Will you need to read the first book before the sequel? And is The Bunkhouse a mystery as well?

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  19. This looks really interesting. Thanks for the fun interview. I'm off to check out excerpts now.

    Good luck to you.

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  20. Lauri,
    It will help to read the first book. I think you will understand Kizzy's murder a little better if you do.

    And yes, "The Bunkhouse" is a historical, mystery, suspense, thriller, romance with a sci-fi twist. I put the sci-fi in for my husband who is a fan of sci-fi. The characters from "Evolution of a Sad Woman" do make a brief cameo appearance in "The Bunkhouse". A mystery happens for them which will be explained further in the next novel, the sequel to "Evolution of a Sad Woman". Thanks, Lauri, for blogging in! GL

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  21. Thanks for dropping by, Katie. You can read a chapter of "Evolution of a Sad Woman" on amazon or on my website http://www.galelaure.com and click on the side button called "Book Chapter One".

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  22. Great interview - I'll have to read the book>

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  23. Anonymous,
    Thank you. I hope you do.
    GL

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  25. I am so sorry, Jose, that I took so long to comment to your post. I had to have someone translate it for me. I am not fluid in Spanish.

    This is so sweet of you! You wrote a poem like my story. I am very flattered that you enjoyed my book so much that you did this. Thank you, Jose.
    GL

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