Look who I’ve RECRUITED!
Fiona Palmer has proven she’s a most versatile author with her first young adult novel quite a change from her highly-acclaimed rural romances, but from early reviews just as fabulous.
First, Fee, here is a beer coaster! Take a minute to jot down the blurb for your new book – The Recruit.
Jasmine Thomas is your normal seventeen-year-old girl. She dislikes the rich mean kids at her school but loves her two best friends, computer savvy Anna and popular, gorgeous Taylor. Her spare time is spent at The Ring, a boxing gym where she practically grew up learning karate, boxing and street fighting. So, yeah, she can kick some major butt.
Life seems pretty normal until Ryan Fletcher enters her gym. Mysterious, hot and plenty of bad boy charm. But she is not prepared for what she finds out about him and before too long she’s drawn into his adult world of secrets and lies. Just how far is she willing to go? And could this be the life fulfilling path she’d dreamed of?
(This is the first in the MTG Agencies series.)
Okay, well, don’t hold back. Come on in. Grab a pw. What can I get you to go 
with your beer nuts? (Shandy? Wine Spritzer? Pink Lemonade?)
A bourbon and coke would be lovely thanks Jenn. Or a Lemon, Lime and Bitters if its before midday lol.
Hey, did you hear the one about … Tell us a joke (preferably one that comes with a punch line you actually remember!)
What is the difference between snot and broccoli….kids don’t eat broccoli. And oldie, one we always told as kids.
I’m a beer nut nut! What bar snack would you be and why?
I love those BBQ noodles you get in the mix with nuts. Love the crunch.
Ahh, that beer hit the spot. Let me slip a drink coaster under your glass while you tell us—on a scale of 1 to 10—as a writer are you a messy desker or tidy desker? (NB: 1 = “I am a neat nut case” and 10 = “What desk? Where? Is there a desk here somewhere?”)
It’s around a four to five, I reckon. While sometimes when I’m writing it can go right up to an 8.
The publican offers you free drinks all night if you will:
- Dance to Gangnam Style
- Sing John Denver’s ‘Take me Home Country Roads’ on the Karaoke machine
- Spend an hour washing dishes
Which do you choose?
Dishes for sure. Something I know I can do well lol
Time to liven the place up. Got a buck? We can crank up the old jukebox in the corner. You get to pick three songs.
- Born in the USA by Bruce Springsteen
- In a pub, you must have some Jimmy Barnes!
- And if we were going to do some dancing, a boppy Katy Perry song.
An author, an agent and a chicken walk into the bar… how do you know which one crossed the road?
This is like one of those maths questions or a really bad joke, neither which I’m good at.
There’s a stapler on the bar. Tell me what it’s doing there.
Cracking nuts. (Maybe the barman lost his nut cracker??)
The pub is the heart of a small town and most locals would be lost without one. What are three things you’d be lost without?
- My family!
- My fur family.
- My car.
There are a few good prizes up for grabs in the bar jackpot. Do you have a lucky number?
73. It was my granddads racing number; my dad’s and also mine. I like to think its lucky.
Then I hope we can expect 73 great stories from you! Thank you for dropping by Calingarry Crossing pub, Fiona and congratulations on your continuing success.
Connect with Fiona Palmer and check out the trailer on her website and buy her book using these links:
https://itunes.apple.com/au/book/the-recruit/id852047890?mt=11
http://www.booktopia.com.au/ebooks/the-recruit-fiona-palmer/prod9780857991577.html
http://www.amazon.com.au/The-Recruit-Fiona-Palmer-ebook/dp/B00JD7EYTO
Last month Helene Young (Safe Harbour), Wendy James (The Lost Girls) and me – Jenn J McLeod (Simmering Season) had our cake, with icing (and we ate it too) when staff from the lovely new Cardiff Library invited us to chat about our writing journeys. I had not met Wendy before and what I discovered is we grew up in the same neighbourhood and attended the same high school (Manly Girls). 
Wendy could even remember the school song! Her latest novel, The Lost Girls is even set in the Sydney northern beaches suburb where we grew up (Curl Curl). Helene Young kept the panel in line with probing questions and ensured there was no fighting over the microphone – even though Wendy and I had both confessed to wanting to be a Broadway stars when we were young.
May 23, 2014.
