{"id":37388,"date":"2013-10-25T15:41:49","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T04:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/?p=37388"},"modified":"2016-03-01T09:31:10","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T23:31:10","slug":"romance-at-booktopias-nine-naughty-questions-travel-edition-with-simone-elkeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/2013\/10\/25\/romance-at-booktopias-nine-naughty-questions-travel-edition-with-simone-elkeles\/","title":{"rendered":"Romance at Booktopia’s Nine Naughty Questions: Travel Edition with… Simone Elkeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While travelling through the U.S.A, Booktopia’s Romance Specialist Haylee Nash has been catching up with some of America’s best romance authors. In Chicago, Haylee got the chance to meet with the bestselling, and hilarious, author of Young Adult and New Adult romantic fiction, Simone Elkeles<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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From a gorgeous apartment in a seedy part of town, I emailed Simone Elkeles<\/a> to see if she’d be willing to come over for a short interview. Sure, she said. We were in the middle of cooking French Toast, so I emailed back and asked if she’d like to join us for breakfast. \u00a0Of course! She’d already eaten, but she couldn’t pass up French Toast.<\/p>\n

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After she arrived, we introduced ourselves and quickly got down to the business of stuffing ourselves with the fried bread, topped with salted caramel and chocolate ice cream from one of the local ice<\/p>\n

creameries, and Simone told us the best parts of town to visit, amongst other things, and generally made us feel completely at ease. By the end of breakfast, it felt like we were old friends.<\/p>\n

We then rolled ourselves to the sitting room, and began filming. If the camera shakes, I apologise – I found it difficult to keep from giggling during the interview.<\/p>\n