Recently I exchanged blog interviews with fellow
Indie Author, Kevin R. Hill. Interviews
offer a different platform in which writers can connect with readers. In turn, readers learn about the author’s character
and individual style of writing. One of
the surprising upsides of our interview exchange turned out to be the
camaraderie between two authors who have never met.
The interviewee obviously knows the Question &
Answer portion of the interview in advance.
Anything else the interviewer writes about you is usually unknown until
the blog post is made public. So when I
saw the headline Mr. Hill posted on his blog for his interview with me, I
couldn’t hold back my laughter. From
experience I knew what to expect when you mention a certain three-letter-word publicly. Uhhh oh, I thought, he doesn’t know. I wondered if I should alert him, but then
decided to let it go.
A few days later Kevin emailed me wondering about
Russia’s sudden interest in his blog.
“It’s the word ‘spy’,” I
informed him. “It causes the blogosphere
to go crazy.” He lightheartedly emailed
me back, “…that was just a wee little bit of info that may have been useful
prior to publication!”
Excerpt from
the Blog of Kevin R. Hill:
“Young, Free, and in love with a Spy--A
real life Romance!”
In
1972, author Kolleen Kidd found herself involved with a Soviet defector, Sergei
Nikolayevich Kourdakov, a former KGB agent and naval officer. I met Kolleen on Goodreads.com, and wanted to
bring her on the blog for my readers to experience the intrigue she lived.
A Rose for Sergei - Available from Amazon
1. Kolleen, please take us to that world of
excitement. You were young and flirting
with a defector, a former enemy. Was it
exciting?
Yes, it was very exciting. I can’t remember a time when I didn’t love
mystery and intrigue. I was sixteen when
I found summer clerical employment with the Defense Intelligence Agency in
Washington DC. I couldn’t tell anyone
what I did or even the location of the building where I worked. It was one of many secrets I would have to
keep.
The Soviet Union was our enemy. I still remember the practice air raid
drills—hiding under my desk in elementary school in preparation for the
unimaginable. When Sergei and I met, at
my Federal Government office, we were both twenty-one. He shook my hand and would not release it. The heated attraction between us was
immediate, in spite of the fact that our countries were adversaries. We were young, single, and on our own in a
beautiful and powerful city. It was both
exciting and frightening…we were watched and followed. Each thought the other was a spy.
2. Why did you write A Rose for Sergei?
Read the complete
July 14, 2016 interview on Kevin R. Hill’s Blog
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