{"id":141,"date":"2013-02-18T16:43:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T16:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/?p=141"},"modified":"2013-02-18T16:43:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T16:43:34","slug":"the-next-best-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/2013\/02\/the-next-best-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Next Best Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is an interview I did about Singles’ Holiday for writers’ website The Next Best Thing, having been tagged by Joanne C Hillhouse – see her interview at http:\/\/jhohadli.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/08\/the-next-best-thing<\/a>-.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Please enjoy!<\/p>\n

\"Singles'<\/p>\n

TNBT:\u00a0 Where did the idea come from?<\/p>\n

ES:\u00a0 From my experiences as a tour leader with a UK singles’ tour operator.\u00a0 While the characters are all from my imagination and the resort and company are also fictitious, I have been able to write convincingly about a singles’ holiday because I know how they operate, how people behave and the dynamics between them.\u00a0 Too often singles’ holidays are portrayed as being for “Billy No-Mates”, but I know that singles’ holidays work and I wanted to show\u00a0the one in my book\u00a0in a positive light, which is what I hope I’ve done.\u00a0 It’s very true to life.<\/strong><\/p>\n

TNBT:\u00a0 What genre does it fall under?<\/p>\n

ES: Fiction – chic-lit (although I hate that term!) – humour and semi-erotic!<\/strong><\/p>\n

TNBT:\u00a0 What actors would you choose to play the part of your characters in a movie rendition?<\/p>\n

ES:\u00a0 Hmm!\u00a0 Well, the characters are English so I’m going to go with UK actors –\u00a0Murray would be played by Peter Capaldi; Stewart by Peter Kay; Suzanne by Lisa Riley; Deano by Hugh Grant; Michael by Myron McKay; Natalie by Sheridan Smith; Frances by\u00a0Brenda Blethyn\u00a0and Eve by Emma Thompson.\u00a0 The others I\u00a0can’t make my mind up about.<\/strong><\/p>\n

TNBT:\u00a0 What is the one-sentence synopsis of your book?<\/p>\n

ES:\u00a0 A group of complete strangers choose to go on holiday to the Caribbean\u00a0and find out a lot about themselves as well as each other.<\/strong><\/p>\n

TNBT:\u00a0 How long did it take you to write the first draft of your manuscript?<\/p>\n

ES:\u00a0 I don’t produce a complete manuscript, rather I write in sections – chapters – days of action – and\u00a0edit each one\u00a0separately and I don’t move on to the next one until I’m totally happy with the previous one.\u00a0 All in all the book took fifteen months from start to finish.<\/strong><\/p>\n

TNBT:\u00a0 Will the book be self-published or represented by an agency?<\/p>\n

ES: Self published.\u00a0 That’s the way forward.\u00a0 It’s hard to promote yourself when you self-publish because you don’t have the backing of a publisher and all that that involves, but you don’t\u00a0surrender control\u00a0of your work either.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is an interview I did about Singles’ Holiday for writers’ website The Next Best Thing, having been tagged by Joanne C Hillhouse – see her interview at http:\/\/jhohadli.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/08\/the-next-best-thing-.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Please enjoy! TNBT:\u00a0 Where did the idea come from? ES:\u00a0 From … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[83,116,8,117],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-joanne-c-hillhouse","tag-semi-erotic","tag-singles-holiday","tag-the-next-best-thing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}