Promote Me Please After Dark

Promote Me Please After Dark welcomes Stefan Angelina McElvain to talk about The Man with the Tool Belt. As usual, here come five curly questions… Q.1. Is it a real tool belt or a metaphorical one? A real tool belt Q.2. Where did the kernel of the idea for this one come from? My wife swears by the man. If an item stays on the honey-do list for a few weeks, she gets the man in. Q.3. Please describe a supporting character from The Man with the Tool Belt The man falls in love, but does she love him? He first meets Roxy when the man is working his day-job, cleaning tables at a coffee shop. He thought she’s cute and gives her his card. He does a job for her, and they start dating, but she’s not ready to settle down with just one man. Q.4. Do you write with a grin, a gentle smile, an earnest frown or in a manic panic? All of the above. The best is the manic panic. I love it when the story takes over. I have no idea what’s going to happen, and I have to write

  Promote Me Please After Dark welcomes Stefan Angelina McElvain to talk about - drum roll... THE SLUT FAIRY! Q.1. The Slut Fairy… is this a story for the romantic or the cynic? Or both? Definitely, not the romantic. The goal’s an adult humorous fairy-tale. Q.2. How did you name your main character ? This is a story by itself. We’d written a short story for a much younger audience and had requested a front cover with a picture of a fairy and a treasure chest. We received a draft cover and when my wife saw it, she said, “They’ve sent you the Slut Fairy and we’d asked for…” I had the title, the story followed. Q.3. Do you like the short form for writing or are you naturally a “long” writer? Short form. Long stories, I tend to break up into a series of novellas. Q.4. Can you give us a quote from the story? Plenty of naughty spells. This is one of them Transport us all to Ankou’s room, And then we’ll complete his impending doom. He and Gideon will be my p

Welcome to Promote Me Please After Dark, the sister blog to the family-oriented Promote Me Please. If you're creative endeavour is suitable for the 18+ crowd, then this is the place for your interview. I ask you five questions, and post your answers along with jpegs of your book cover etc, and links of your choice. I promote the interview on FB and Twitter, and send you a custom url so your interview can be visited directly. To get a spot here, send me an email at lark.westerly(AT)gmail.com with Promote Me Please After Dark as the subject line. Tell me the book, album, or event you want to publicise and I'll send you the questions. To get a spot on the family-friendly blog Promote Me Please, send the email to sallybyname(AT)gmail.com with Promote Me Please as the subject line.