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best-selling author, mom of three, Realtor, beer blogger, brewery marketing
expert, and soccer fan, Liz Crowe is a Kentucky native and graduate of the
University of Louisville currently living in Ann Arbor. She has decades of
experience in sales and fund raising, plus an eight-year stint as a
three-continent, ex-pat trailing spouse.
Her
early forays into the publishing world led to a groundbreaking fiction hybrid,
“Unconventional Romance. Worth the Risk,” which has gained thousands of fans
and followers interested less in the “HEA” and more in the “WHA” (“What Happens
After?”).
With
stories set in the not-so-common worlds of breweries, on the soccer pitch, in
successful real estate offices and at times in exotic locales like Istanbul,
Turkey, her books are unique and told with a fresh voice. The Liz Crowe
backlist has something for any reader seeking complex storylines with humor and
complete casts of characters that will delight, frustrate and linger in the
imagination long after the book is finished.
Don’t
ever ask her for anything “like a Budweiser” or risk bodily injury.
Can
you share a little of your current work with us?
I’m
about to release FAMILY LOVE the final novel of my best selling Love Brothers
series. It’s a family saga style series chronicling the lives of a tight-knit
family in Kentucky, 4 brothers, 1 sister. Each book so far has told the story
of one of the brothers. Family Love is about the Love family women: Lindsay
Halloran Love the matriarch whose back story is told in part one, and Angelique
Love, the one sister in all the chaos, whose relationship with her mother is
rocky at best.
Who
designs your covers?
These covers were a result of a custom photo shoot. Tara
Reid did the photography of one of my favorite models, Scott Nova. Fiona Jayde
put it all together along with an AMAZING trailer for the series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CefA1aGVkpg
The
voice over is that of Daniel Dorse, who has narrated books 1 and 2 so far for
me for audible.
Do
you have any advice for other writers?
Hmm……take up drinking? No? Ok, well, the
best advice I have is to find the very best editor you can—one who makes you
cry sometimes but ultimately makes your books better—and pay them what they are
worth.
Do
you have any writing rituals or certain things you do to aid your writing
process?
I’ve been known to write in airports, on airplanes, in fast food
restaurants, while waiting for my daughter’s soccer practice to end, at the
kitchen table, the dining room table, in bed, on the couch in front of the TV
and at real estate (empty) open houses. So, no. IF there is writing to do, I do
it, no rituals necessary.
Favorite
snack and thing to drink while you write?
Booze.
With maybe a box or two of wheat thins to wash it down.
ebook
or print?
Both….literally, along with “audio.” I have 3 books going now, one in
each media.
junk
food or sweets?
Salty and junky.
dogs
or cats?
Dogs (I have 2 stand poodles)
tea
or coffee?
Uh…..both. Coffee in the a.m. iced tea in the p.m.
dark
or light colors?
Dark. They’re more slimming (see: “salty and junky”)
angels
or demons?
Both. Without a doubt. Gotta have the balance.
paranormal
romance or historical romance?
Honestly? Neither. I’m not a huge formula
romance fan and don’t read either of these. I prefer sweeping sagas, sexy thrillers,
suspense, and realistic novels of people in relationships—which is not always
“romance.”
Boxers
or Briefs?
Neither.
Control
Freak or Careless Jerk
Control
Freak—it makes for nice clahes with my own control freak-ess.
Top
Five Reasons to Love Michigan (my adopted state)
1. Lakes---lots
and lots and lots of lakes and all the fun one can have on all of them from
Lake Michigan (as big as an ocean sans salt and, you know. “sharks.”) to some
of the smaller, inland ones on a soft summer night.
2. Beer—we
are #4 in the nation in the number of great craft breweries
3. Climate…well,
now anyways. Winters suck but they are character building.
4. People—a
charming mix of “southern friendly” and “west coast casual”
5. Detroit. I love that
city
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