Five on Friday | Ann Everett Talkin' Twang

Today, I welcome Sorchia DuBois back to my blog for a Five on Friday feature. Be sure to check out her book and follow her on social media.

FIVE ON FRIDAY

Name three of your pet peeves.
1. Bad Grammar! I’m not a grammar Nazi who goes around correcting everyone but I do secretly judge. I appreciate unique wording and offbeat sentence construction—as long as the writer demonstrates an understanding of the rules. I mean, you have to know the rules to break them creatively, and I respect that. Of course, stuff happens. I’ve been guilty of hitting Send before I’ve proofread carefully. And, of course, English is a living language with constantly changing usage—that is wonderful. All that said, it’s pretty easy to tell when someone does not have a grasp of the basics, and, in most cases, I consider such discrepancies after high school cause for justifiable homicide.
2. Popping gum loudly in an enclosed space—also a reason to execute someone in the street.
3. Kind of related to #1, bad cursing. People who can’t curse creatively shouldn’t do it at all.

Ann: I am almost afraid to type a response to this first question for fear my grammar will be terrible!

Do you laugh at your own jokes?
Yep! Somebody has to. My family doesn’t always get me, but that’s no reason my fun has to be spoiled.

Ann: I also laugh at my own jokes!

Do you hide any secrets in your books that only a few people will find/recognize?
Yes, I do. I hide things I’ve written about in other books, from classic literature, from movies and pop culture, from my life (and I’m safe because no one in my family reads my books—well, maybe my sister so I don’t allude to her except in a nice way.) I love to read books with little Easter eggs secreted away inside the plot or the character descriptions, so I try to write that kind of book, too. My last book has poetry—all penned by yours truly—at the beginning of each chapter. I tried every poetic form I could including a sonnet and was rewarded when one reader commented on the sonnet. She is a former English teacher so she recognized the pattern and thought it was hilarious. That is what I live for!

Ann: A few of my “bad” guy characters are based on people I don’t like. I guess that’s a secret!

What is one of your favorite quotes?
“Time Flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.” Words to live by from Groucho Marx.

Ann: I love that quote. I’d never heard it before.

Do you read horoscopes?
I read my own horoscope every day—there’s an app for that—though I don’t hinge my life on it. I also read Tarot cards and I believe in the no-coincidences thing. I think horoscopes and other forms of divination are about 90% self-psychoanalysis—The act helps you make connects your subconscious has been trying to push forward. Whatever Force guides the Universe accounts for the other 10%.
Funny story: when I was the sponsor for a small-town high school newspaper, we used to do a horoscope column even though some of the highly religious community members objected. We told those people we wrote the column for fun and we made up the content—all true. But you would be amazed how many kids came to us and told us how accurate we were. One of our wackier forecasts for a particular day was to beware of a busload of nuns. Lo and Behold, one of our kids came to us with a story of meeting a bus filled with nuns on the highway on that very day. Our reputation soared and newspaper sales doubled.

Ann: Interesting story!

A proud member of the Scottish Ross clan, Sorchia DuBois incorporates all things Celtic (especially Scottish) into her works. She can often be found at Scottish festivals watching kilted men toss large objects for no apparent reason.

Magic may save Zoraida’s skin, but what about her heart?

Zoraida Grey needs help. With the witchy Logan clan holding her best friend hostage in a haunted Scottish castle, she can’t trust anyone—certainly not beguiling but dangerous Shea Logan. And Al, her overprotective boyfriend, doesn’t believe in magic.

Only one creature strikes fear in the blackened hearts of the Logan witches. Trouble is Jock disappeared five centuries ago leaving a trail of destruction across the Gulf of Mexico. Now he’s stepped into a steaming pile of Voodoo.

Can Zoraida drag wayward Jock back to Scotland? And what’s she supposed to do with two men who promise completely different futures?

A Scottish wizard, stripped naked and painted blue—a Voodoo priestess bent on immortality—a yacht-load of Caribbean pirates. What can possibly go wrong?

Social Media
Website: https://www.SorchiaDubois.com
Blog: https://www.sorchiadubois.com/sorchias-universe-the-bloga/

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Amazon author page: http://www.amazon.com/SorchiaDuBois/e/B00B60NOUQ/
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