Today I would like to introduce you to Katey Lovell. Although a new kid on the block author-wise - you'll get the reference later -  she's probably been on your radar for a while. 
  Raised in HEREFORD (where I live), she's now a Yorkshire lass. She has an author blog and a book blog (Books with Bunny) which can be found  at www.kateylovell.blogspot.co.uk  and    www.bookswithbunny.blogspot.co.uk respectively.
   So, Katey, pull up a chair. I haven't had a chance to talk men in ages. Who would be your ideal man? 

Oh gosh, this is a hard one!  Anyone who knows me (or follows me on twitter!) knows I’m a complete and utter fangirl for boybands.  I’m a big One Direction fan and my heart beats a little faster for both Liam Payne and Louis Tomlinson.  I also love all of McFly, especially Danny –  his accent is gorgeous and his daft sense of humour makes me smile.  And after 23 years of being a 'Thatter', I’m still harbouring lustful feelings for all of Take That.  I probably always will.
   
Many men! Well I think we'd better see these Adonises, hadn't we?

The thought that these guys are normally in my second question hasn't even begun to percolate in  my mind. (And I've no intention of admitting to having been a Zayn girl myself.)

;-) LOL Ahem... So, dare I ask ... who did you have a crush on when you were a teen?
   
One of my very first crushes was Chesney Hawkes. 

Oh no, you got me! LOL

I thought he was the most beautiful man on the planet!  I begged my Mum to take me to see him at Hereford Leisure Centre in 1991.  She finally caved when she couldn’t take a minute more of my pleading, and I now have to admit to him being my first concert whenever anyone asks. 

I won't ask! So, around that time, what was your ideal job?
   
I can’t remember what I wanted to be when I was eleven, but I know I wanted to be a gymnast for a while after the 1992 Olympics, so that was when I was twelve.  Alas, it was never meant to be.
   
Very few of us seem to have the ability to predict at that age.  And was your mind a reader back then? What kind of books were you into? Can you give me, say, three?
  
I’ve always been a voracious reader but as a child/teen I think my ultimate favourites were Forever by Judy Blume (I reread this recently and it was still as wonderful as ever), Matilda by Roald Dahl and the Sweet Valley High series by Francine Pascal.  

I can't think of Matilda these days without thinking of the headmistress' rant in Outnumbered. Brilliant!
   Thank you, Katey. So about your writing. Tell us what you've been up to.

My new releases are the Meet Cute series – the first short story (seen here) is  The Boy in the Bookshop, released on October 29th, followed by The Boy at the Beach on November 5th and The Boy at the Bakery on November 12th.  Published by Harper Collins' digital first romance imprint Harper Impulse.
 
Exciting! What are they?
  
They're a set of short stories about the moment you meet.
  
What a lovely idea. And you can find these stories at:
Amazon.com
- http://www.amazon.com/Katey-Lovell/e/B00YLIBPRE/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0
Amazon.co.uk
– http://www.amazon.co.uk/Katey-Lovell/e/B00YLIBPRE/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0
 
And the woman herself, you can find at: Twitter - @katey5678
Instagram - katey5678 and Facebook – www.facebook.com/kateylovell
Thanks for dropping by.
 Enjoy!

I'm not one of those whose heart sinks at the sight of the first golden leaf, who bemoans the loss of the evening light. I don't begrudge the equatorial masses their winter warmth; I smile and relax and breathe.
    No more having to remember sun cream - not that we had much need of that this year. I think I might have used it twice, but I'm talking in general. No more headaches from squinting into the sun (see point one). I like dark nights and cosy jumpers, thick socks and fluffy things. This is my season and I love having seasons. I wouldn't want it any other way.
   Living in the country, it's the action time on the land: harvesting, ploughing and seeding for the next year...

I love the colours all around, the reds and the yellows, whilst still retaining our green.

Then there's my birthday, my husband's birthday, my son's birthday - the cake season, certain doom for any young diet. Bonfire Night and Halloween come in this season too, with fireworks and a family tradition of 'worst firework competition' - the winner being the one who chooses the most disappointingly rubbish firework to light.

All sorts of things to look forward to, but lord help those who mention the C word...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a writer in possession of a Manuscript, must be in want of… well anything that will put off the evil hour of actually getting down to it. Procrastination may be the thief of time, but oh how we writers love it. There seems to be nothing nicer than whiling away your day on Facebook or Twitter particularly when there is editing to be done. It becomes a kind of art form, the self-deception to justify the waste. There are a million things we suddenly NEED to do or should be doing or would be quite convenient if they were done or just plain could be done when we’re desperate.
     So I asked around. What are people’s favourite diversions? I assumed there would be a ranked result, but it seems there are as many types of procrastination as minutes in the day to waste.
     Vaguely writing related seems to be the easiest to justify, like making soundtracks to put you in the mood, researching pictures that inspire you on Pinterest, chatting on social media is necessary, of course, as is baking to feed your brain. Shopping, even ‘window shopping’ online can be a way to pass the time and emails, blogs and reading, even cleaning at a push – you wouldn’t want to catch a bug from a dirty laptop! But why do we do it? That’s the more interesting question.
     For me, sometimes it’s because I’m bored. Sometimes I’ve done a big bit of writing and need time to regroup before I move on, like a revision break in exam days, but mostly it’s because I don’t want to write, I mean I do, but… I don’t think I can, or don’t have time or peace enough to commit, or sometimes I don’t even believe there is any point. You see there are all kinds of reasons for not writing, but I guess if writing wasn’t so important to me, I wouldn’t need so many excuses to stop doing it.

Most useful? Cleaning. I get lots of plot lines sorted with that. :-/  But my current favourite waste of time is creating book covers. I can spend hours … days doing that and still justify to myself that it might come in useful one day. Genius!
    What’s yours?

This is a new one to me. Having been a film buff more than a reader for most of my life, I rarely read a book before seeing the film. I would hear  avid readers complaining that a book was far better than the film, but until recently, had no basis for an opinion.
    Times change and I have to say that so far I’d say it was 50-50. Some films are far better than the books. Maybe that's because making a film means distilling down the essence of a story and removing all the flim-flam. (Technical term!)
     I recently read up on writing screenplays and tried to convert one of my manuscripts  to see how it worked. It certainly focusses the mind on what is and isn’t necessary to the story. I’m not a fan of hugely descriptive prose or oodles of backstory - call me impatient  – so it appealed to me, and maybe that is why I enjoy films so much. But there are times when things that I feel are important have been left out, maybe they needed to be for time constraints, or the screenwriter didn’t see them as important as I did, but I felt it made the film less fulfilling with their loss.
   For me – and this is only my opinion: The Notebook, by Nicholas Sparks is just as good as the film, but Nights In Rodanthe, by the same author, I felt was better as a book. As for films that outshine the book, I loved the recent film adaptation of Suite Francaise, but could really not get into the book. What are your thoughts?