A Few Questions for Tawna Fenske

Working Stiffs welcomes guest blogger, Tawna Fenske. If you don't read her blog, Don't Pet Me, I'm Writing, you're missing out. Disclaimer: Don't read it with food or drink in your mouth, or you WILL have to replace your keyboard. And be forewarned--it's a little naughty. She also blogs on The Debutante Ball. Tawna is the author of the romantic comedy, MAKING WAVES, which will be released on August 2nd.

Working Stiffs had a few questions for Tawna and she was kind enough to answer them.

1. If you were stranded on a desert island, which hero from which book would you want for company?

I’m trying to be practical and think about which guy might have excellent raft-building skills or the ability to cook a gourmet meal from palm fronds. Alas, I’m a romantic comedy author at heart, so I can’t think of anything beyond who’d crack me up and look great strutting around the island with his shirt off. I’m going with Phin Tucker, the hero from “Welcome to Temptation,” one of my favorite romantic comedy novels by Jennifer Crusie.

2. Boxers or briefs? Not for you, of course. What do you prefer your heroes to wear?

I seem to have my male characters outfitted in boxer briefs an awful lot, and I’ll admit a personal preference for those. I like the way they look on a guy, and I especially like the way they look on my bedroom floor.

3. If you could be any character who would you be?

Can I live vicariously through one of my own characters? I’d kind of like to be Juli, the heroine from my debut novel, Making Waves. She’s cute and quirky and more than a little strange, though you learn the reason for the strangeness about a third of the way through the book. She also gets to knock boots with Alex, who I happen to know is funny and smart and fantastic in bed because…um, well, I wrote him that way.

4. Since Working Stiffs is mostly a crime writing blog, who would you most like to kill off in a book? You can change the name to protect the not-so-innocent.

Once upon a time, I wrote women’s action/adventure/romance  novels for a special line at Harlequin called “Bombshell.” None of my books actually hit shelves since the line was canceled one month before my scheduled debut, though I’m not building up to a confession that I want to kill an editor over that debacle.

I want to kill my good friend, Larie Borden.

With each of the three books I wrote for Bombshell line, I named a character after Larie. Then I killed her.

It wasn’t her, exactly…she was a little old Argentine man named “Lorenzo Bordel” in one book, and an Iditarod competitor named “Lori Boardman” in another. I always delighted in finding new ways to murder Larie, and she seemed to enjoy being killed.

Though I adore romantic comedy and I know that’s what I’m meant to write, I really miss killing my friend for sport. I think she misses it, too.

 

Thanks for visiting us today, Tawna. Now everyone--get out there and order MAKING WAVES!