Live from the Blogosphere, it's the Kait Show

I'm thrilled to be a part of Rosen Trevithick's promotional tour for her new book, Straight Out of University, and am proud to be the only American stop on the tour.  And since it's always been a secret dream of mine to host a talk show, that's the visualization I had in my head when I conducted this interview.  (My keyboard is too crap to put this all in dialogue form, so you'll just have to imagine the TV-inteviewness of it all.)

Playwright and novelist Rosen Trevithick was born in Cornwall, during the Chinese year of the sheep. She studied at Oxford before moving back to the West Country. She now lives on the south coast of Devon with two cats, Mr. Cubert and Mrs. Wonderlickle.

Rosen Trevithick

Trevithick says that people she met in Oxford inspired her to write, but Straight Out of University is entirely fictional.  (I can confirm that she draws inspiration from others, as I was very excited to see one of my own suggestions in the book!)  This is Trevithick's second novel.

And now, on to the questions...

Kait:  I tend to get more hits on my Twitter than on my blog.  Can you pitch your book to me in 140 characters or less?
Rosen:  Sophie's uni life consists of passionate love affairs, liberal activism & boundary-pushing. She returns to Cornwall and everything changes.

Kait:  139 characters!  Awesome!  Now, moving right along:  please tell me two truths and a lie about Straight Out of University.
Rosen:  
1.) The beginning is set at a fictional Oxford college called St Cuthberts.
2.) I created the trailer using the Facebook graffiti app.

and 3.) There's a junior dean directly based on Kaitlin Walsh, called Kaity Welsh.

Kait:  I can vouch for Rosen's amazing Graffiti app skills, because once she used the Graffiti app to interpret a dream I had.  I was wondering, though:  when I first met you, you seemed to be more focused on writing plays. What sparked your decision to start writing novels?  Is there anything easier/harder about writing something to be read rather than performed?
Rosen:  A play needs a team to bring it to life.  I wanted to write something between just me and the reader, so I decided to try novel writing.  I enjoy writing prose, but I find play writing easier, because my favourite thing to write is dialogue.

Kait:  So what's next for Rosen Trevithick?  Any new writing in the works?
Rosen:  I've written two short sketches, which will be performed by The Coffee House Players in Exeter, this autumn.  I'm at the very early stages of planning a children's book.

Kait: So who do you think will win the World Series - the St. Louis Cardinals or the Texas Rangers?
Rosen:  Huh?

Kait:  Haha, that question wasn't really fair, so I'll give you a bonus question.  Is there any question your blog tour hosts would ask about your writing, or any question you wish people would stop asking?  If so, please answer it here.  You don't even have to tell me the question - I like out-of-context remarks.
Rosen:  The British monarch is a queen.

Thanks for stopping by, Rosen.  Readers, you can find Rosen's plays and novels here, available for the e-Reader of your choice.  (US Readers, be sure to click on the link to download the texts from the US version of Amazon.)

Here are the rest of the stops on Rosen's blog tour:

• Monday, 7th November - Literature & Fiction
• Tuesday, 8th November - yours truly!
• Wednesday, 9th November - Along the Write Lines
• Thursday, 10th November - Mel Comley, Author
• Friday, 11th November - Bisexuality and Beyond
• Saturday, 12th November - Fentonton

That's all for now, folks.  Good night!