Interview with Madelyn Scott, Author of Poison and Party Hats

What’s the story behind the story? What impressed you to write down Poison and Party Hats?

These books have been impressed by my canine, and I’ve at all times wished to write down a sequence with numerous holidays. Because individuals have a love/hate relationship with holidays. They are one thing we sit up for, however they may also be a ache. It took me years to do it as a result of there are such a lot of holidays, however I’m glad I lastly did it.

If you needed to choose theme songs for the principle characters of Poison and Party Hats, what would they be?

I really feel like Ollie the canine’s theme track can be “Born to be Wild.” Lucy’s would in all probability be “Roar” by Katy Perry.

What’s your favourite style to learn? Is it the identical as your favourite style to write down?

I really like mysteries – every kind! I like cozies, and darker ones too. As lengthy because it has a puzzle to resolve, I’m there for it.

What books are in your TBR pile proper now?

I’m at present studying Jennifer Ashley’s Kat Holloway sequence – Scandal Above Stairs is the audiobook I’m listening to, and I’m wanting ahead to studying the following Amity Allen Magical Kittens thriller – Kittens, Cupcakes & Conspiracy.

What scene in your e book was your favourite to write down?

Everything with Ollie the canine in it. He’s impressed by my treasured canine Delta. She’s as unhealthy as she is cute!

Do you’ve got any quirky writing habits? (fortunate mugs, cats on laps, and so on.)

I really like to write down to a TV display screen with a crackling hearth on it. It’s scorching the place I dwell so we by no means want an actual hearth, however I really like how cozy it feels. I crank up the AC, get a blanket and “turn on” the hearth. It provides me the proper setting to write down.

Do you’ve got a motto, quote, or philosophy you reside by?

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” —Maya Angelou

If you would select one factor for readers to recollect after studying your e book, what would it not be?

I’d love for readers to recollect the discovered household that Lucy develops all through the sequence. The small city of Shongoloo brings Lucy a way of neighborhood that she by no means anticipated to seek out.