Blog Tour: L.K. Madigan!!

Okay, my next blog tour guest is L.K. Madigan, whose book Flash Burnout debuted on October 19. I'm very excited to read this story!

Here’s a blurb about Flash Burnout:

Fifteen-year-old Blake has a girlfriend and a friend who's a girl. One of them loves him, the other one needs him.

When he snapped a picture of a street person for his photography homework, Blake never dreamed that the woman in the photo was his friend Marissa's long-lost meth addicted mom.

In a tangle of life, death, and love, Blake will emerge with a more sharply defined snapshot of loyalty.

Aaaaaand, a little about author L.K. Madigan:

L.K. Madigan is a writer living in Portland, Oregon, who finds it odd to speak in the third person. Therefore: Hi. I am married with one son, two big black dogs, hundreds of books, and a couple of beaters, I mean vintage cars.

Visit her online at http://www.lkmadigan.com/.

You can visit your local bookstore, or go to Amazon HERE to buy a copy of her book online!

And now, onto the vastly important 3 interview questions:

1--What was the spark of inspiration for this story? Tell us what event, or idea, or dream got this book started.

I have a photo of a little girl we used to know – she’s about five in the photo – and she is beaming. But she has circles under her eyes. Of course, it’s probably a hereditary trait, but every time I looked at her photo, a sentence came into my head: “She had the most heartbroken eyes in the world.”

Right around the same time, I was talking to a friend about a different young adult novel I had written. I had received a few rejections, and was wondering if I should stop submitting it. My friend, a medical examiner, said, “You know, I see a lot of meth cases. Did you ever think of writing a book about the meth problem?”

Suddenly, the sentence that kept pinging around in my head – the one about the heartbroken eyes – blossomed into a story. A teenage boy’s voice began talking about a girl he knew, but it wasn’t his girlfriend. It was a friend. The better he got to know her, the more he learned about her troubled life, including her meth-addicted mother. How much was he willing to risk to help this friend?

I started writing, and FLASH BURNOUT was born.

2--What food did you looooove getting from the cafeteria at lunch in high school, and why? (or if you didn't eat cafeteria food, what was your favorite brown-bag lunch?)

I loved going off-campus with my best friend during senior year to Chuck E. Cheese! Maybe it was the flavor of freedom that tasted so good, but I remember that pizza as being DELICIOUS.

3--What is your absolute favorite part of being a writer?

The thrill of epiphanies when you least expect them.

Thanks for coming to my blog, L.K.--and I'm so happy about the release of your novel!