Andrea Colt grew up reading and squabbling with her identical twin. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia with her fiancé, a fridge full of cheese, and two feline muses. Visit andreacolt.com to get to know her better.
Cheerleader
Rose Whitfield's senior year goes up in smoke when she's framed for arson. Sure
the culprit is her neighbor and nemesis Paxton, she sets out to clear her
name and take Paxton down hard--not necessarily in that order.
Do you write under your actual name or a pen name, and is there any special
meaning behind your name?
My real last name is the same as a certain political writer, and my
first name is pretty similar to hers too, so Andrea Colt is a pen name. I just
shortened the last name.
Actually originally I went by the pen name Lynn Colt, using my middle
name, but I found it too difficult to answer to a different first name under my
writer persona, so I switched back to Andrea when publishing Torched. Note to
writers thinking about a pen name: it's waaay easier when you just change your
last name!
What are the names of your main characters and what can you tell us about them?
Rose Whitfield has it all at the beginning of Torched: she's a popular
cheerleader dating the hottest guy in school. But then she loses everything,
and has to find out who framed her and also why. That journey forces her to
re-examine how she treats people, and what kind of person she wants to be, and
by the end of the book she's a pretty different girl!
Paxton Callaway is Rose's next-door neighbor, and since he and Rose
have been locked in a war of practical jokes for years, she assumes he's the
one behind her downfall. He's hot, a football player, and more than a match for
Rose's wit and drive :)
Do their names have special significance
to your story or were they just names that you liked?
Naming things is the hardest part of writing, for me! I just liked the
names, and felt they fit the characters. Same with settings - I like to have
fictional settings, so that I have more creative freedom with places and
layouts, so I have to name everything!
I modeled Rose's town, Petalina, after Petaluma, California. My next
book, Wavecrossed, is about selkies in Maine (and stars another smart,
determined protagonist I had a lot of fun writing), and I modeled that town on
the area south of Portland, Maine. It's not exact, as I took a lot of creative
license, but I tried to evoke the feel of the area :)
Thanks for stopping by!
Thanks so much for having me! For more on Torched or Wavecrossed,
see the My Books section
of my website. Have a great day, everyone!
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