Welcome Special Guest Ilona Fridl

Happy Endings is pleased to introduce today’s special guest, Ilona Fridl

Describe where you write.

My office happens to be on the dining room table and my papers are on one of the chairs. I may not be that organized, but creation happens just about anywhere, right?

What is your biggest challenge as a writer?

Getting over that little voice inside my head that asks me, “What are you thinking?” I keep telling it to shut up and go away.

On the flipside, what is the one thing that gets you most giddy as a writer?

That’s easy! When you hold a completed book in your hand. That is just like giving birth.

If you were told tomorrow that publishers were never going to buy another book in your genre, but you would sell in the one genre you never thought you’d write…would you switch? What would that genre be? (And what do you write now?)

I’d give it a shot. In a way, I did that for the second book in the series, “Golden North.” I wrote suspense, but never a structured mystery. That was tough, but at times, I love a challenge. Because I like adventure and action, I may have trouble writing a sweet or inspirational story.

If you inherited a time machine, where would your first stop be –in the Past or the future and what would you do when you got there?

Probably in the past, but the future would be intriguing, wouldn’t it? I enjoy research, so I’d start taking down notes on what I saw, heard, smelled, and tasted. That would be great to go to a place you were writing about to get the right atmosphere!

If someone forced you onto a reality TV show as a contestant, which one would you go on?

Since I don’t like eating bugs, I’d probably favor a game show. Otherwise, I would love to have a new house. Ty, where are you?

If you could become the heroine in a favorite book you’ve read, which book would it be and how hunky is your hero?

Jo March in “Little Women” has always been my favorite heroine, but I’ve forever taken issue with her throwing over the good-looking Laurie for a hairy German professor.
What is a secret talent the writing world doesn’t know about you?

I was an actress on stage in my youth. Not a famous one, just worked in college and local theater. My improvisational acting helped me with POV.

If you could “party like it’s 1999” with a celebrity or personality (alive or dead) who would it and where would you party?

I have been a Beatlemaniac since I was thirteen. I married my husband, Mark, because Paul McCartney didn’t ask me first. It would be anywhere he could sing “And I Love Her” to me!

Because this IS Happy Endings, I have to ask: What is your favorite fictional romantic happy ending — either from a book, a movie or TV show and why that one?

I think my favorite was from a book called “Silver Lies” set in the late 1800s in Colorado. Inez and her Reverend, Justice started dancing to a waltz in a dark room with snow flakes drifting by the window casting shadows over them. After all they were through in that story, it never fails to bring tears to my eyes.

Be sure to check out Ilona’s recent release, SILVER SCREEN HEROES

Addy Garcia and Zeke Shafer are a stunt double and a director’s assistant that works at Majestic Motion Pictures Studio in 1920 Hollywood. A family of gangsters take over the failing studio to make and sell illegal liquor. Zeke and Addy work together to help the police capture the mob. One problem, Addy’s cousin has married into the crime family. Addy has been given a key to bring the family and the studio down. Will she use it?

Visit Ilona at her website: http://www.ilonafridl.com