A warm Love Bytes welcome to author Rebecca Cohen joining us today on her “Overly Dramatic” Blog Tour .
Rebecca kindly answered some questions for us , shares an excerpt and there is a giveaway to enter !
Welcome Rebecca 🙂
Author Name: Rebecca Cohen
Book Name: Overly Dramatic
Series: Treading the Boards #1
Release Date: August 19, 2015
Goodreads Link: Book http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25934191-overly-dramatic
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Cover Artist: Paul Richmond
Pages or Words: 120 pages, 40k words
Blurb:
Andy Marshall moves to London looking for a fresh start after breaking up with his long-term boyfriend. To stave off boredom from his day job as an accountant and to meet new people, Andy joins a local amateur dramatics society called the Sarky Players based in Greenwich, South London. Despite his best efforts to avoid it, Andy is cast as one of the leads in a truly dreadful play called Whoops, Vicar, There Goes My Trousers, written by a local playwright.
The play might be bad, but the Sarky Players are a friendly bunch. Andy quickly makes new friends and finds himself attracted to Phil Cormack, a local artist helping with the props. But life doesn’t run to a script, so Andy and Phil will have to work hard to improvise their own happy ending.
Categories: Contemporary, Humor, M/M Romance, Romance
Today I’m happy to be interviewing Rebecca Cohen author of Overly Dramatic.
Hi Rebecca, thank you for agreeing to this interview.
Tell us something no one else knows about your characters.Â
Andy from Overly Dramatic once appeared in the play What the Butler Saw at university. It involved him prancing about the stage in blue y-fronts. Actually, there’s a lot to be revealed about Ryan (a secondary character in Overly Dramatic) but readers will learn about him in Summer Season (due out Oct)
Have you ever written something that made you cry?
I can think of several but the worst was when Kai thinks Ollie wants his freedom in Under Glass and he runs away. Even after they made up Kai is a ball of neuroses but I did fix them in the end.
Have you ever co-written with someone before?
No. Never say never, but at the moment I have too many of my own projects to tackle.
What is the most difficult part of writing for you?Â
Time. Life is busy, so fitting in time to write can be tricky. I have so much I want to write, and it is quite frustrating that I physically don’t have time to get all the words when I want to. I will get there eventually.
Name your four most important food groups.
Swiss handmade chocolate, tea, caramel ice cream and bacon sandwiches
The handout turned out to be a few pages of the play stapled together. Andy had expected the script for Cold Comfort Farm—this definitely wasn’t that.
“Er, Derek, have you given us the right play? This says it’s from Whoops, Vicar, There Goes My Trousers.”
“You old dog, Derek,” said Ryan with a guffaw. “You’ve lured in this poor man on the promise of a proper play.”
“It is a proper play, Ryan. Just because it was written by a local doesn’t make it any less credible.”
Dear God, what had he gotten himself into? He quickly checked the flyer and saw for the first time that the date for Cold Comfort Farm audition was the year before. Derek must’ve used the flyer to scribble down the audition times, but whether he’d deliberately meant to mislead Andy was another matter. Andy skimmed through the partial script. Instead of the gentle comedy based around a young woman who arrived in an airplane and something nasty in the woodshed, he had a 1920s farce involving a runaway goat, a vicar, and a large quantity of stolen French brandy. And that was just the scene in front of him.
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Rebecca Cohen is a Brit abroad. Having swapped the Thames for the Rhine, she has left London behind and now lives with her husband and son in Basel, Switzerland. She can often be found with a pen in one hand and a cup of Darjeeling in the other.
Where to find the author:
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/rebecca.cohen.710
Twitter: http://twitter.com/R_Cohen_writes
Blog: http://rebeccacohenwrites.wordpress.com/
Author: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4515613.Rebecca_Cohen
Tour Dates & Stops: August 19 – September 1
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Rafflecopter Prize: $20 Dreamspinner Press gift certificate plus copy of choice of ebook from author’s back catalogue
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I haven’t seen very many plays but one I really enjoyed was Much Ado About Nothing. Overly Dramatic sounds great! Thanks for the giveaway.
I do like A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM. If we’re talking modern, TAKE ME OUT would be a great one for anybody into m/m (even though it tugs at the heartstrings for sure)…
Other than my senior play, Annie Get Your Gun. where I was an extra, I’ve not had the privilege of seeing a play. There are several I’d love to see. Maybe I’ll get lucky and go to New York at some point. Love the cover, it alone would have attracted me to the book. Thanks for a chance in the giveaway.
i always will love CATS