Giveaway & Interview with "THE SILVER BOAT" New York Times Bestselling Author, Luanne Rice

Title: THE SILVER BOAT
A Novel 
by Luanne Rice

Genre: Historical Romance

Publisher: Penguin Group
Imprint: Pamela Dorman Books

Format: Hard Cover & eBook
Pages: 300

Pub. Date: April 5, 2011

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Bestseller Luanne Rice returns with a novel as timeless as the sea on which it's set.

From the beloved New York Times bestselling Luanne Rice comes a heartwarming yet heart-wrenching portrait of three far-flung sisters who come home to Martha's Vineyard one last time. Their mother's beach house is the only place any of them ever found true happiness and they need to begin the difficult process of letting go. Memories of their grandmother, mother, and their Irish father, who sailed away the year Dar turned twelve, rise up and expose the fine cracks in their family myth-especially when a cache of old letters reveals enough truth to send them back to their ancestral homeland.

Transplanted into the unfamiliar, each sister sees life, her heart, and her relationship to home in a new way. But how do they let go of a place that contains the complicated love of their imperfect family? Without the house, where will they be together?

The novel is a season on Martha's Vineyard; a mission to Ireland; a cast of friends, including one wildly off-the-grid Zen genius; passionate love in the surf; and three very different sisters with lives filled with beauty, sorrow, and deep love they'd never been quite sure they could trust. The Silver Boat is Luanne Rice at her very best, complete with her singular talent for capturing a family in all its flawed complexity.

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Questions with

New York Times

Bestselling

Author

Luanne Rice

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                                                                                                     Adrian Kinloch

1. What is the best part of being a writer? What is the worst?

The best part is that work and my interior life intersect. I don’t think there is a worst…

2. Why do you write?

To make sense of my life and this world, and because I love to tell stories.

3. Name one eye-opening thing you learned from your book research.

  

Freud was blind to the sibling relationship. He worked with a vertical model, recognizing the impact of parents on children. But he failed to note and honor the deep connections and influence siblings have on each other.

4. Do you have a favorite motto?

Love makes the world go round.

5. Do you have a favorite fictional hero? Favorite fictional heroine?

Travis McGee in John D. MacDonald’s novels and Seymour Glass in J.D. Salinger’s Franny and Zooey, Raise High the Roof Beams, Carpenters and Seymour: an Introduction, and Nine Stories; Mary MacDhui in Thomasina, The Cat Who Thought She Was God, by Paul Gallico, and Caro Bell in The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard.

6. Which fictional character would you hang out with?

Travis McGee, on his houseboat the Busted Flush, at slip F-17, Bahia Mar Marina in Fort Lauderdale, Florieda. Trav is a deeply committed environmentalist as well as a protector of the underdog. Plus he’s hot.

7. What is one of your favorite book covers, your own or someone else’s?

Well, I can’t help loving the luminous white shells and blue ocean on the cover of The Silver Boat. I also love the evocative cover for Joseph Monninger’s Eternal on the Water.

8. What would readers be surprised to learn about you?

That “Luanne” is not my real name.

9. What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever learned by Googling your name?

Yikes, I don’t do that. I avoid it at all costs!

10. If you could go backward or forward in time which would you chose? Why?

I believe in the present moment… I don’t so much think of going back, but I do wish my parents could return so I could talk to them, get to know them as people instead of just parents. They died way too soon.

11. Luanne, congrats on the release of “THE SILVER BOAT” which was released by Penguin on April 5, 2011. Please tell us more about it.

Thank you! The Silver Boat is very dear to me. It’s about three sisters returning to their beloved family home on Martha’s Vineyard for the first time after their mother’s death. They have to face what will become of that house—it’s like a member of the family, and the situation brings out a deeply hidden family secret as well as sisterly conflicts and bottomless love.

12. Which do you find is most important to you as a writer, voice or story? Why?

Is voice character? Because I would say character…through her, a great story can unfold.

13. Luanne, please share with desperate readers where they can connect with you in cyber world. =)

I would love to meet your readers. Please find me at www.luannerice.net, and from there link to Twitter and Facebook.


14. I know this is a difficult question with there being so many amazing authors out there to choose from but who are some of the GOT-TO-HAVE authors in your TBR pile?

Joseph Monninger, Teresa Medeiros, Alice Hoffman, Ann Hood…

15. What’s next in the works for you? When can readers expect to see it out on shelves in their local bookstores?

I have a monologue as part of a play, Motherhood Out Loud, being produced at Primary Stages in New York this fall. I’m also involved in producing the film DREAM COUNTRY, from a script I wrote with Jayce Bartok, an adaption of my novel of the same title. Mostly I’m working on a new novel that starts with a crime, continues with an unexpected visitor, and contains threads of estrangement, lost love, and the kind of deep love a person can have for someone she’s never even met

Luanne, thanks so much for stopping by and chatting with Over the Edge readers and myself; it has really been a blast getting to know more about you and your books,

Thank you, Christine! It’s been an honor and pleasure to visit with you and your readers.

~GIVEAWAY~

Celebrating the April 5, 2011 contemporary fiction released by Pamela Dorman Books, "THE SILVER BOAT"  from New York Times bestselling author, Luanne Rice;  Over the Edge along with Pamela Dorman Books will be giving two lucky readers their very own copy.  To enter here are a few simple rules.

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