Quick Six with Veronica Wolff!
A huge and happy welcome to Veronica Wolff to the blog!!! I’m so excited to welcome her to the blog. Veronica is not only an award winning, multi-National Best Selling author, she’s a super sweet gal and a fellow member of the SFARWA writing chapter. You have to check out her AWESOMELY sexy highlander stories!!! But first, check out her quick six interview below, then be sure to answer her question to you in the comments to win a copy of her latest release. 
Thanks for having me, Tawny! I’d love to give away a copy of my latest, Lord of the Highlands, to one commenter.
Light or Dark? Darrrrk! I like my men brooding, my nights long, my skies bleak, and my seas roiling. (In fiction, that is. In real life, my mood is several shades lighter—though I’ll always love me a good gray and angry sea.)
Introvert or Extrovert? Total Introvert. I confess, I’m the type of person who stares in horror whenever the phone rings. Hell, I usually don’t even recognize the sound of my own cell phone on those rare occasions someone does call. I’ve got my dream job, which requires me to sit alone at my desk all day, reading, writing, and puttering.
Champagne or beer? Uhhhh…both?! Though, to be honest, when I’m sipping something of the adult-beverage variety, nine times out of ten it’s a Guinness or Corona Light with lime I’ve got in hand. But a girl does love her champagne flutes!
City or country? I’m a city girl all the way, living in San Francisco for over fifteen years now. But we live near the beach, and I like to imagine myself quite rustic (until the topic of spiders or bees comes up…shudder).Vanilla or chocolate? Depends. My ice cream is vanilla. But a staple of my life (and I do mean staple, as in food/sustenance/necessity—definitely not mere “dessert”) is Cost Plus World Market brand Sea Salt Dark Chocolate.
Candlelight dinner or dance club? Can I answer “C: None of the above”? I’m all about pizza and a movie on the couch. (My pizza is pepperoni and black olive—two slices if I’m being good, four if I’m not. And the DVD preferably features aliens, explosions, or some sort of imminent apocalypse.) But, okay, okay, if I must answer, I’d have to say I’m a candlelight date (but my husband knows to take me to a big-budget action movie afterward).Here’s my question…though, with many of you facing sidewalks in need of shoveling, perhaps it’s not the best time of year to ask! But… Tropical or Alpine? Give me a hot island, cold drink, and jauntily knotted sarong any day.
Veronica Wolff was an aspiring art historian when she realized that academic writing was not the place to explore her romantic flights of fancy. She’s lived everywhere from Texas, to Hawaii, to India, finally settling in Northern California where she lives with her husband, two children, a dog, cat, and countless houseplants. Her unmarketable skills include snowboarding, speaking Hindi, gardening, and knowing an alarming amount of pop-culture trivia. Her adventurous time-travel romances are set in seventeenth-century Scotland, and are based on the lives of real heroes.
Definitely Tropical. Love your interview, Veronica! Your wonderful personality shines through!
Great answers. My choice is tropical. Not a cold weather girl.
I didn’t realize you had such perfect taste in movies! When is our Christmas Die-Hard marathon??
Snowed indoors, in the middle of the woods, infront of a roaring fireplace. I love the simplicity and purity of being snowbound. Woulnd’t even mind if my adult children were there. I find it comforting.
I’m looking forward to this blizzard they are promising! I’m in NJ. So, I am Alpine…
Keep those Highlander books coming!
awww, thanks, Virna!! Martha, ohmygosh, that sounds like heaven! And, Patty, you make that sound so lovely! Our family goes to Tahoe every winter (I love to snowboard!), and I totally know what you mean. Watching that snow drift down, hearing the crackling of the fire, and the best part, a pair of exhausted kids at the end of the day. *g*
Hey Veronica and T!
I love the water and not when it’s frozen!
Ok, must get back to rewrites…
With it so cold here, I would have to say tropical, but if you asked me at another time of year, I would probably say the opposite
I’d really enjoy being someplace tropical!
Hi Ladies,
I have to confess to never being in the snow before. I lived in Canberra over winter and that was plenty cold enough so I’ll take tropical. In Adelaide today we are expecting 26C and slightly overcast. Perfect kind of day to relax with a good book =)
Bronwyn.
I really love the cover of your book.
Please give me Tropical, it was 9 out this morning and I think it’s in the teens right now. If it weren’t Christmas soon I would complain to high heavens. So after the holiday season I’ll start complaining about the cold.
Thanks, Nicole! I was pretty happy with the cover too.
*9* degrees…I can’t imagine. Though you’re so right–it’d be nice to have cold weather for the holidays. I was in the garden earlier, weeding. And though that sounds nice, I sure do miss white Christmases! Speaking of which…Happy Holidays to everyone, and thanks for stopping by to say hi!
Definitely tropical. We live in southern California, and once my family to Canada for vacation…in the middle of one of the coldest winters on record.
Never. Again.
That being said, happy holidays, and thanks for the chance to win! I’m enjoying your books so far, and can’t wait for the next one.
It would be tropical for me because I don’t like the cold and the snow. We are going to get snow tomorrow, yuck. It has been cold and raining all day today. Your books sounds fabulous and I love a man in a Kilt!
Tropical, because I love the idea of enjoying the sun from under a large shady umbrella with a cold, fruity drink in hand and a book from my TBR
I could likely enjoy the cold, too, in front of a fire with a mug of hot chocolate and ah, a book from my TBR… 
Thanks, Julie! So happy you’re enjoying the books!! And yeah, Quilt Lady, who *doesn’t* love a man in a kilt! Though when I went to Scotland, I was shocked and dismayed by how few there were. Fedora, you sound like me–as long as it involves sitting with a book and a specialty drink, I’m all over it!
Definitely tropical! I’m sick of below freezing temps.
Right now I am freezing my tushie off in WV but I think I would still have to go Alpine. Gotta say that I love Highlanders, I know they can’t all be gorgeous hunks of manhood but in my mind’s eye they are.
Your books sound so wonderful. I love Highlanders. I am one quarter Scot!
I am with you on the academic writing. I was in a Master’s program in an English Dept….but then I fell into journalism, and never went back. No regrets. I love English for the company ‘she’ keeps, but even as the brat of Academicians, I have forged a different way.
I’m with you, Dianna–I shudder to think how they must’ve smelled wayyy back when. And their teeth! LOL! But in my mind, they are all gorgeous Gerard Butler clones. And Kathryn, I hope you enjoy the books–there’s nothing like the call of the old sod. I’m part Irish myself, but have myself convinced there’s Scot in there too. As for the English Dept, too funny…I was in the Art History Dept way back when, and in my experience, looking at art became soooo much more pleasurable the moment it stopped being a “job.”