A Forgiven Friend by Sue Featherstone & Susan Pape - Book Tour
A Forgiven
Friend: Lies, Loss, and Love, But Always Friendship
Friendship will
always come first.
There’s only one way out from rock bottom and
that’s up, and Teri Meyer is finally crawling out from the worst time of her
life – no thanks to her best friend Lee. But no matter, she’s finally found
love – real love with a real man, a successful man, a man who accepts all her
flaws. Teri’s never felt like this before, and yet it’s changing her in ways
she doesn’t understand.
And there’s only one person who can help, one
person who truly understands Teri.
It seems that no matter how hard Lee Harper
tries, there’s a battle awaiting her at every turn these days, and she’s tired.
And as if she needs the extra stress, Teri continues to create constant and unnecessary
drama. But Lee’s the only one who really knows what’s going on under Teri’s
hard, convoluted exterior, and that’s why she’s always been there for her.
But the question is: will Teri be there when Lee
needs her most?
The brilliant and entertaining final book in the
unique FRIENDS trilogy dishes out another dose of rib-tickling mayhem for our
favourite thirty-something professional women.
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A Falling Friend (book 1) will be
FREE from November 18 - 22 (UK, AUS and US)
A Forsaken Friend (book 2): 99c/p
from November 18 - 25 (UK and US)
1.
What is the
first book that made you cry?
Sue: Good Wives
by Louisa May Alcott. I cried buckets when Beth died.
2. How long, on average, does it take you to write
a book?
Susan: We wrote our academic text books fairly
quickly (about a year for each) but it took us about eight years to write the first
in the Friends trilogy, A Falling Friend. That’s because we were both working
full time and had family and other commitments. Without distractions, I’m sure
Sue and I could write something within a few months. Sadly, real life doesn’t
allow that to happen.
3.
How do you
select the names of your characters?
Sue: It’s a
little like naming a baby – you have a list of names you like and, sometimes, you
have a front runner but, as you begin to flesh out the character, and get to
know them better, one name just fits in
a way that others don’t. For instance, in one of our two current works in
progress we have a character who was originally named Jerome and had twin
brothers, Joshua and Joseph. But the alliteration of names was just too twee,
so we decided to change Jerome to Mikey. But the character had become Jerome…Eventually
we gave him his name back and re-named his brothers. And that felt right.
4. What are your top 5 favorite movies?
Susan: The Shawshank Redemption; Truly Madly
Deeply; Lord of the Rings; Pulp Fiction; It’s a Wonderful Life.
Sue: Fargo, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,
Calamity Jane, Rio Bravo and Singing in the Rain.
5. If you were the last person on Earth, what would
you do?
Susan: Finish off all the chocolate and then cry.
Sue: Build a spaceship and go where no woman has
gone before.
6. Do you have any advice for aspiring writers?
Susan: Write, write, and write. So many people tell
me they’d like to write a book one day. I tell them not to wait, but to get on
with it.
Sue: Read, read, read. I’ve taught journalism for
more than 20 years and even the weakest of the male students can write a great
match report or sports feature. Why? Because they’ve been reading about sport
in newspapers and magazines since they were knee high to a grasshopper. They’re
instinctively familiar with the structure and content and the specialist
language. So aspiring writers should read the sort of books they want to write
as well as the ones they don’t.
7. What book do you wish you had written?
Susan: I don’t. I can admire a book, love reading
it, and appreciate how well it’s been written, but I never think, ‘Oh, I wish
I’d written that.’ I’m simply pleased that Sue and I have been able to write
the books we’ve completed so far. To me, that’s so much more satisfying than
wishing I’d written Rebecca or The Hobbit.
Sue: Me too. I’ve very proud of the books I’ve written. Why would I want
to disown them in favour of someone else’s creations?
8. Tell us 10 fun facts about yourself! :)
Susan:
1.
I play the
ukulele – and you can’t have more fun than strumming Rock Around the Clock on a
uke!
2.
I can count to
ten in Chinese.
3.
I’ve paraglided
off the Brecon Beacons
4.
Reciting and
acting out The Jabberwocky is my Christmas party piece.
5.
The TV quiz show Pointless will
probably never have Sue and me on again after we apparently ‘flummoxed’
Alexander Armstrong!
Sue:
1.
I’m a Nordic walker.
2.
I was an embedded reporter on one of
Europe’s largest NATO defence exercises and, for a week, lived with my local Territorial
Army unit in a farmer’s field in Germany. Because I was a girl, the farmer
allowed me to use their downstairs toilet – in the barn where they housed their
sows.
3.
I danced the part of Sleeping Beauty
in an amateur (very amateur!) ballet performance.
4.
I won a high school knobbly knees
competition.
5.
I knit and natter every Saturday
morning with a group of friends. We talk and knit and put the world to rights.
Biographies:
Sue Featherstone and Susan Pape
Sue
Featherstone and Susan Pape are both former newspaper journalists with
extensive experience of working for national and regional papers and magazines,
and in public relations.
More
recently they have worked in higher education, teaching journalism – Sue at
Sheffield Hallam and Susan at Leeds Trinity University.
The pair,
who have been friends for almost 30 years, wrote two successful journalism text
books together – Newspaper Journalism: A
Practical Introduction and Feature
Writing: A Practical Introduction (both published by Sage), before deciding
to turn their hands to fiction.
The first
novel in their Friends series, A Falling Friend, was released in 2016. A
Forsaken Friend followed two years later, and the final book in the
trilogy, A Forgiven Friend, published on November 19.
Sue, who
is married with two grown-up daughters, and the most ‘gorgeous granddaughter in
the whole world’, loves reading, writing and Nordic walking in the beautiful
countryside near her Yorkshire home.
Susan is
married and lives in a village near Leeds, and, when not writing, loves walking
and cycling in the Yorkshire Dales. She is also a member of a local ukulele
orchestra.
They blog
about books at https://bookloversbooklist.com/
Follow them on Twitter: @SueF_Writer and @wordfocus
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