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I know i'm like a month late but the winner of the Daisy Jordan contest was finally revealed today. I used random.org and each entrant was assigned a number. number FOUR was what the generator spat out and lucky Angie had been assigned number FOUR. so congratulations to Angie. YOu have been emailed. Thanks to everyone who participated and sorry again for getting this out soo late.
Daisy Jordan
Author of Everything Happens for a Reason, the Spin the Bottle Series, and All that Sparkles isn't Real Sapphire
I like to start out my days with a laugh. Soo… What makes you literally LOL?
The TV show Friends. Every time! I love it! Lots of other things too…I love to laugh…but Friends never fails.
It’s the New Year, what were some of your resolutions?
One of my biggest resolutions was just to keep my life going in the direction I want it to go. A big part of that is I’m going to try doing a lot more publicity for my books this year.
and that's when i come in. =)
Has anything AMAZING happened to you as a writer? (Other than getting published?)
My most amazing experiences have been talking to readers and when readers have left me messages and comments letting me know how the books touched them in some way. That’s why I write! Another amazing experience was going to Book Expo America in 2007 in New York City and doing a book signing there. I hope to go back!
How about something EMBARASSING?
I don’t get embarrassed too easily. So nothing I can think of right off the bat. My friends were all afraid they’d be embarrassed by my books because they thought I’d write about them and it would be obvious, but I haven’t done that, so they don’t have to worry!
What/Who inspired you to become a writer?
I have loved writing ever since I was little. My mom’s an English teacher, so I think that was definitely part of it. A book I read in college, The Snow Garden, was what inspired me at the time to start writing a new book, something really crazy and dramatic with a big twist people wouldn’t see coming, and that turned into the first book I published, Everything Happens for a Reason….
If not an author, what would you have been?
I have another job; I’m also a high school counselor and student council advisor. It’s awesome! I love it.
How do you associate with your fans? Are there any who’ve made a strong impression on you that you can’t forget?
I associate with them as much as I can through MySpace, and I recently started a Daisy Jordan Facebook page. I love to get messages from my fans. There are a couple I’ve stayed in touch with through MySpace who have asked me for writing advice or who always let me know when they’re reading my latest book and what they think about it, and those are my favorites! I also have two friends who I met because they read my books, and now we are really close! So that’s been a really cool experience.
Is there a specific reason as to why after writing your first novel, Everything Happens for a Reason, you wrote its prequel, the Spin the Bottle series, before going on to write its sequel, All that Sparkles isn’t Real Sapphire?
When I wrote Everything Happens for a Reason…, I had made a few mentions of the characters when they were in high school, and some of my readers said they loved the characters and wanted me to do more with those characters. So I decided it would be fun to go back to their high school days and write about that. I’m glad I did, because now I feel I know them so much better as characters, and it will be easier to develop their lives from here because I’ve explored their teenage years and have a base for why they are at the places in life they are now. All That Sparkles Isn’t Real Sapphire actually takes another character who was barely in Everything Happens for a Reason… and follows her to college at a different school than the school in Everything Happens for a Reason….
wow. That's pretty cool.
Can you in any way relate your life to your series title, Spin the Bottle?
I love this question! I love symbolism of any kind. In the game spin the bottle, you sit in a circle and spin the bottle, and you never know who it will land on. It’s the same thing repeated over and over, but a different person every time. I think my life tends to go in a circle sometimes, coming back to the same spot even though there are different people involved along the way and I never know for sure who will come into my life or play a role in it. That is how I’d say my life relates to the title.
Nice. I love your spin/take on the question. =) 
If the Spin the Bottle series was to become a motion picture, who would play the main characters?
Check out my website to see! (daisyjordan.com) I have “Meet the Character” pages for each book, and you can click on each character. It will take you to that character’s individual webpage, where there is a link to a picture of a celeb I’d choose to play that character. Keep in mind celebs have a lot of different looks, so the pictures I’ve chosen represent them as I would want them to look in my movie. A little preview: Jill – Hilary Duff, Hilton – Sienna Miller, Lorylyn – Ashley Olsen with dark hair and eyes, Hillary – Ashley Tisdale
What about Mary-Kate Olsen? j/k =)
What's your guilty pleasure?
Us Weekly! I read every issue cover to cover! I love it!
What is your favorite piece of clothing in your closet right now?
My gray zip-up hoodie from Wal-Mart, of course. Like the one Hilton and all the girls wear in high school. I’ve had it since I was fourteen, but it’s not in my closet, it always hangs on the back of my computer chair so I can throw it on easily! I am wearing it right now!
since you were fourteen and it still fits? you must have a great figure! and a great taking care of clothes capability.
What could you eat all day long and never grow tired of?
Pizza!!!
what kind? i heart supreme.
What’s your favorite fairytale? Have you ever thought of re-doing it?
My favorite fairytale is The Little Mermaid. I redid it for my children’s lit class in high school.
you're just on top of things aren't you? =)
When you get stuck writing, how do you unglue yourself?
I usually take a break, sometimes even for a day or two, and don’t think about it at all. Then I come back to it and it usually flows. Or sometimes I sit down with a little pad of paper and plan out what’s going to happen next. Those are the only notes I ever take for my books, and there are not a lot of them.
What’s something you can’t live without?
My pets!
Is there any moment in your life you’d like to relive?
I am going to choose one I’d relive because of how fun it was – a spring break cruise I went on in college w/ 5 of my friends!
oooo. I can't wait for my college days.
What’s a random fact about yourself?
I am studying French right now. I took 4 years in school and I know a lot, but I want to become fluent.
Do you have any words of wisdom on life?
There are a lot of things I believe, such as “everything happens for a reason,” of course and “seize every moment, live it, and never look back,” things like that. I also strongly believe in travel because I think it opens your eyes to the world and makes you a different person. I like the quote from the Bon Jovi song “Who Says You Can’t Go Home” that says, “If it’s a million miles away or just a mile up the road / Take it in, take it with you when you go.” I think it’s really important to do this, because every place we go becomes a part of us. But overall, my best words of wisdom on life come from the song “My Wish” by Rascal Flatts – “If you’re faced with a choice and you have to choose / I hope you choose the one that means the most to you.” I believe in following your heart and doing what you know will make you happiest and what is most important to you!
I like those. especially traveling. I love to travel.
Why should I read any of your novels?
I hope you will find them relatable and somewhat funny, and that they will touch you as well. I hope they will somehow help you find meaning in some area of your life.
and as for those of you who are wondering where questiong 21 went, I guess it got lost. =)
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Thanks Daisy for joining us today.
Visit Daisy on her webpage or myspace. I'm sure she'd be glad to hear from you.
Time for a Giveaway
Today, ONe lucky winner will be going home with a copy of Really Good Friends, the first in the Spin The Bottle Series!! Yay!
Deadline: April 8, 2010
Who: EVERYONE! It's International!!!!
Just leave a comment answering one of the interview questions and spread the word.
About Really Good Friends LINK
"For Jill Sherer, high school's shaping up to be better than she could've imagined. From the first week of cheerleading practice, she and her best friends Hillary and Lorylyn are included in a circle of popular girls who open the door to a world of exciting social possibilities. And on the first day of school JIll meets Todd - hot, smart, athletic, funny, and a flirt - the boy of her dreams.
But things with Todd don't go as Jill had hoped, she and Hillary drift apart, and her circle of friends is shaken because of Lorylyn's new boyfriend. Desperate to get things back to the way they were, Jill, along with her new best friend Hilton - a gorgeous, intriguing girl who is the link between Jill's old friends and her new ones - anxiously awaits the one thing that never changes...Landon Kessler's parties.
There, on a lake outside town, everyone comes together time after time for dancing, drinking, skinny-dipping, and spin the bottle. Spin the bottle...the game that leads to new loves, bitter jealousies, betrayals, and breakups. The game that teasingly draws the circle of friends together, only to rip them apart in unforeseeable ways. But they keep coming back, some with hope, some with malevolence, some with amused interest, to be part of the saga that unfolds party after party, month after month..."
