Guest Author: Ute Carbone

 

Dancing in the White RoomNew Release from Turquoise Morning Press: Dancing in the White Room by Ute Carbone. 

Just in time for the Winter Olympics!

 

 

Please welcome and get to know Ute Carbone in this Q&A: 

  1. Choose one: Mr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice or Mr. Knightly from Emma? Oh, tough choice. I think I’d have to go with Mr. Darcy, though. He’s so lovely and brooding, LOL.
  2. Choose one: Ranger or Morelli?  I love Morelli—he’s Italian, he can cook, he owns a dog. And he’s hot. What else do you need??
  3. Favorite book you WISH you had written?    There’s a looong list of books here. Most recently, The Light Between Oceans, which was such a wonderful emotional read.
  4. Favorite movie you would star in…if you were a movie star?. Maybe as Sally in “When Harry met Sally.” That might be fun.
  5. Favorite escape: (i.e., wine, travel, book)?   All of the above. I love to read, so Ute4smallcurling up on the couch with a really great book is a favorite thing to do. I love a nice glass of wine, red Italian is a favorite. And I’d love to travel more than I do. I also enjoy hiking in the woods.
  6. What is your favorite kind of cake? (I must ask…I’m a cake aficionado!)    I meet with writing friends at a café/bakery to write once a week. We say we go for the atmosphere (they have a really nice space where we can write) but honestly?? They have a strawberry chocolate cheese cake that is to die for.
  7. What is your creative outlet (aside from writing). I really enjoy music, but I’m not great at it. And cooking, when the mood strikes me. I like to dance, too. But only when I’m by my lonesome, Lol.

 And now about your books:

8. Tell me about your next book release.  Dancing in the White Room, is a contemporary women’s fiction with a strong romantic element.  The idea came, actually, from a non-fiction book by Jon Krakouer called “Into Thin Air” which isn’t about skiing at all, but climbing Mt Everest. In one very short sentence or two, he talked about how hard it was for climbers (mostly men) to maintain relationships with wives and girlfriends. It got me to thinking about the women on the other end of the relationship—and Mallory, my main character, came out of that. Since I don’t know a carabiner from a carburator,  I decided to change mountain climbing to extreme skiing.  I grew up around skiing, and a long time ago, I was on the volunteer ski patrol at a teensy ski area, so I knew I could draw on that experience. 

Dancing in the White RoomDancing in the white room is slang for skiing or boarding in deep powder snow. The dancer is PD Bell, one of the best extreme skiers on the planet. Mallory Prescott, the woman who lives with him and loves him, is used to Bell’s exploits. A patrol woman at Whiteface Mountain near Lake Placid, New York, Mallory is no stranger to risk. But this time Bell is taking on the West Rib of Denali, highest and most dangerous mountain in North America. It’s a descent that has never been done, though it’s been tried. Five years ago, Bell had tried it. The attempt nearly killed him. Five years ago, he promised Mallory he wouldn’t try it again.     
    Over the six weeks in which he’s gone, Mallory begins to question her relationship with Bell. Does he really love her? Is he in it for the duration? What has loving him cost her?  Mallory’s life choices are thrown into stark relief when her daughter Emily takes a terrible fall. Together with her life-long friend Creech Creches, she must work her way through a maze of uncharted territory at a hospital miles from home.       
      Dancing in the White Room is the story of the love we keep, the price we pay for that love, and the forgiveness it takes to hold on to what is precious.

9. Who would play your leading man if your book gets picked up by Hollywood?  It would have to be a tall blonde dude. Maybe Chris Hemsworth from Thor, though he’s not quite blonde, he might do nicely.

10. Best advice you’ve gotten as a writer? Read a lot. Then write, write and write some more. Don’t give up.

How can readers connect with you?

My handles–

Web page:  http://www.utecarbone.com/

Blog: http://ute-carbone.blogspot.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ute-Carbone/234417796596443

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Wildwords2

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5114798.Ute_Carbone

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Ute-Carbone/e/B005G7U8RM/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_pop_1

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