Blog Tour - Sealed with a Kiss by Rachael Lucas

Today I am excited to welcome Rachael Lucas to my blog to celebrate the paperback release of her novel 'Sealed with a Kiss'. 

Rachael Lucas is a mother, gardener, coveter of beautiful things, outgoing introvert, reader, bed lover, early morning riser, night owl and a sleep deprived mass of contradictions.

She wrote her first (astoundingly awful) novel at the age of 11, bashing away every night after school on a portable typewriter. It was rejected (very kindly) by a publisher.

Rachael lives by the seaside in the North West of England with her partner, their blended family of six children, a very hairy dog and two and a half cats. She likes listening to BBC Radio 4 and thinking about writing. When she is writing, she hates everything and everyone and doesn't brush her hair.

For more about Rachael, visit her blog at www.rachaellucas.com/ or say hello to her on Twitter, where she can be found talking nonsense under the username @karamina (and if you ask, she'll explain the origin of the slightly odd name).

I was lucky enough to meet Rachael at the recent Chipping Norton Literary Festival (Chiplitfest) and (I feel I must apologise as I first asked if she was Fiona Walker) she is a lovely lady - funny, bubbly and very enthusiastic about the power of bloggers and social networking to promote literary. I did not see her event where she was giving new writers her thoughts on the art of self-publishing but I am sure it was jam packed full of hints, tips and advice.

Anyway, back to the blog tour, in celebration of Rachael's new release, Sealed with a Kiss, where the main character Kate dumps her then partner at her friend's wedding and then up sticks and becomes a Girl Friday for a Scottish landowner, I asked Rachael about her top Rom-Com films: 

Top 5 - 10 Rom-Com films and why you love them

I absolutely adore romantic comedies. I’d love to say I’m the sort of person who likes to sit down and watch a black and white French film about something meaningful, but give me a good old swoonfest any day. I could list tons, but these are my top five…

1.     When Harry Met Sally – It’s perfect. Will they, won’t they? I wanted Sally’s hair when this film came out (and her outfit, which is frankly a bit dodgy looking when I look at it now). But I love their arguing, their shared jokes, the conversations they have on the phone together. I love it when their friends get together and I love it best of all when that New Year’s Eve party happens and they finally kiss. Sigh.

2.    Ten Things I Hate About You – Oh, Heath Ledger. I love this because it’s an adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew, and I love Shakespeare. I also love it because it’s my favourite kind of love story – they hate each other because they love each other. And I love it because of the song at the end. And now I want to stop writing and watch it…

3.    Bridget Jones. Because I adore Bridget and gorgeous Mark Darcy and it makes me laugh every time, and because I don’t care how unlikely it is that she’d run through the streets in her pants and I know it never snows in London but I DON’T CARE. And if I could I’d add Bridget Jones – The Edge of Reason as my fourth choice, but I think that’s cheating. But I adore it, too.

4.    The Holiday. I’m totally outing myself as a complete girly sop with all these. But I love it. Jack Black is one of my favourite actors and clearly I’m a sucker for a Richard Curtis style snow scene and a totally unrealistic cottage that Kate Winslet can apparently afford on a tiny salary and…oh, I don’t care. Jude Law is sweet in it and there’s a lovely sparkly lights New Year’s Eve ending.

5.    Reality Bites – Showing my age here. I love this one so much because it reminds me of a time when Generation X was the next big thing and we weren’t all grumbling old gits. Ethan Hawke is gorgeous in this and even though I sort of want to throw a bucket of water at Winona Ryder, I still love it. Basically all a film has to do to keep me happy is have a bit of will they/won’t they, a huge snog at the end and a blooming good soundtrack and I’m happy.

I   I thoroughly recommend Sealed with a Kiss and my review will follow later today. It is a fantastic read and I am already loooking forward to Rachael's next release. 

T   Thank you Rachael for visiting my blog today and I hope I get to catch up with you again at a festival soon and I promise I will not mix you up with other authors next time! Thank you also to Pan Macmillan for organising the blog tour.