Get Lost with Kate Noble's Let It Be Me

GET LOST IN THIS STORY…

London weather is chilly—and the social scene even more so. Luckily, Bridget Forrester is just getting warmed up…

Bridget longs to meet a gentleman who doesn't mention her beautiful sister upon shaking her hand. But since being branded a shrew after a disastrous social season, Bridget knows she's lucky to even have a man come near her. It's enough to make a lady flee the country…

So Bridget heads to Venice for music lessons with the renowned Italian composer Vincenzo Carpenini, with whom she's been corresponding. But not only is Carpenini not expecting her, he doesn't even remember her! His friend, theater owner Oliver Merrick, does, though. And one look into her tantalizing green eyes has him cursing his impulsive letter-writing, which brought her across the continent. Yet before Merrick can apologize, Carpenini has ordered her away.

Little does either man know that they will soon be embroiled in a wager that will require the beautiful Miss Forrester's help—or that there'll be far more at stake in this gamble than money…

I am so excited to have the lovely Kate Noble with us today. Kate’s writing is…sublime. There’s no other word for it. Now let’s get to know her a little better…

Kate Noble love books. Romances especially. But, being born into a family of doctors, scientists, and mathematicians, she didn't discover she was adept at writing until, oh, about junior year of high school. Which came as something of a relief, as she was hopeless at memorizing the Latin names for all the bones in the human body. The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle eludes her to this day.

Kate is the national bestselling author of the acclaimed Blue Raven Series, earning starred reviews from Library Journal and Publisher’s Weekly (Follow My Lead), as well as a spot on the Best Romance list from Kirkus Reviews (The Summer of You) and a RITA nomination for best Regency Historical Romance (Revealed).

And now, the GET LOST interview…

HEATHER: What’s your favorite movie of all time?

KATE: Jaws.

HEATHER: What’s the first book you remember reading?

KATE: I don’t remember the name of it, but I remember it was about two dogs.  One old, and one young, and the young one showed the old dog how to open a door, and the old one died at the end.

HEATHER: What’s your favorite cartoon character?

KATE: Sebastian the Crab

HEATHER: What turns you off like nothing else?

KATE: Being bored.

HEATHER: Where do you read and how often?

KATE: I read in bed mostly.  Its how I wind down.  But then again, if it’s a really good book, it will keep me awake far too long!

HEATHER: What sound or noise do you love?

KATE: Water.

HEATHER: Do you write while listening to music? If so what kind?

KATE: I do.  Mostly soundtracks.  Soundtracks are inherently emotional, and they have the benefit of in general not having words.

HEATHER: What was the first story you remember writing?

KATE: It was 8^th grade and I wrote a complete rip-off of Gone With the Wind, which I had just finished reading.  Also, my version was a lot shorter.

HEATHER: Who’s your favorite villain?

KATE: Salieri.

HEATHER: Is writing or story-telling easier for you?

KATE: Writing.  Be it in email, or a novel or a note, I always feel like I explain myself so much better on the page.

HEATHER: What’s something you’d like to tell your fans?

KATE: I would like to tell my ceiling fans to not collect so much dust.  I would tell my oscillating fans that they do good work.  Keep, you know, oscillating.

HEATHER: If you couldn’t be a writer anymore, what profession would you take up?

KATE: I have no other marketable skills.

HEATHER: What’s the first thing you do when you finish writing a book?

KATE: I have a bottle of champagne waiting for me in my fridge when I’m getting down to the end of my book, so it’s there to be popped open the minute I type “The End.”

HEATHER: If you could interview one person (and it doesn’t have to be a writer) who would it be?

KATE: I’d like Omar Sharif to teach me Contract Bridge.

HEATHER: If you were given a chance to travel to the past where would you go and specifically why?

KATE: I’d like to meet the grandparents that died before I could know them.

HEATHER: What question are you never asked in interviews, but wish you were?

KATE: “What was winning an Oscar like?”  which I have not done, and therefore the question has never been asked.

HEATHER: What is your favorite tradition from your childhood that you would love to pass on or did pass on to your children?

KATE: Encyclopedias at the dinner table.  Whenever we had a question, my parents would say, “let’s find out!” and we would reach over to the encyclopedias and look up the answer.

HEATHER: Which of your characters would you most/least to invite to dinner, and why?

KATE: I’d invite Bridget Forrester over to play piano.  I’d love to hear her play.

HEATHER: What soundtrack or playlist do you recommend for your current release?

KATE: Well, Let It Be Me practically comes with a built-in soundtrack!  Listen to Beethoven’s piano sonata no. 23, Op. 57, the Appassionata.  And then listen to Beethoven’s 9^th Symphony, the Ode to Joy.

HEATHER: Tea or Coffee? And how do you take it?

KATE: Tea.  1 sugar.  No milk.

HEATHER: What color would you make the sky if it wasn’t going to be blue anymore and why?

KATE: On a clear day, the sky is blue because it is reflective of the atmosphere, scattering blue wavelengths from the sun’s light spectrum more than red.  The sky gets reddish at sunset because of the different angle the light hits the atmosphere.  So if it is going to be a different color than blue, that means that the sun and the atmosphere have somehow fallen out of their normal angles with each other.  Meaning the earth is falling out of its orbit.  Meaning we are all going to die.

I think it would be nice to have a green/purple sky, if that were to occur.

HEATHER: Which era would you least like to have lived in, fashion-wise and why? Most?

KATE: Fashion-wise, I don’t know the worst – anything with a full body corset seems horrific.  The best would easily be the Regency era.  I look good in an empire waist dress.

HEATHER: What’s in your refrigerator right now?

KATE: Half a left over turkey meatloaf and a lot of yogurt.

HEATHER: Is Elvis really dead?

KATE: Yup.  Sorry. 

HEATHER: Tell me how many hats you have in your home?

KATE: 23.  18 of which belong to my husband and are Boston-themed.

HEATHER: What would you do if you had a time machine?

KATE: Well, I’d be with the Doctor, so anything he likes.

GOT A QUESTION YOU’D LIKE TO ASK YOUR FANS?

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