Melissa Walker, author of Violet on the Runway, Violet by Design, and coming soon, Violet in Private met up for coffee (actually, she had mint lemonade and I had sparkling water) recently, and we decided to mix things up a bit when it came to the interview. So we played my version of Twenty Questions, in which each person gets to ask the other a random question, taking it in turns, until we reached twenty. All answers had to be one sentence long so I could scribble them down quickly in my terrible handwriting.
Ahem. Presenting … Ms. Melissa Walker in Twenty Questions:
Question one:
Sabrina: What made you decide to write the Violet books?
Melissa: I spent twenty-four hours in a male model apartment and I decided that I had to set a book in that world.
Question two:
Melissa: Why sparkling water?
Sabrina: I have had three cups of coffee today, and if I have any more I will go insane.
Question three:
Sabrina: Under what circumstances did you spend twenty-four hours in a MALE model apartment?
Melissa: I was writing a story for Elle Girl, which I pitched myself.
Question four:
Melissa: What is the last thing that you wrote?
Sabrina: That would be a chapter from my (hopefully) upcoming book, Letters to Bert.
Question five:
Sabrina: Why would you pitch a story that required you to spend twenty-four hours with male models?
Melissa: I felt it was important for teen girls to know that really hot guys can be really boring.
Question six:
Melissa: Who is Bert?
Sabrina: Bert is a fictional rock star.