Home and Away with Mia March...plus a book giveaway

Introduction by Melissa Amster

We are thrilled to have Mia March visiting us at CLC again this summer. I loved The Meryl Streep Movie Club (see my review from earlier this year) and am excited to visit Boothbay Harbor, Maine again through Finding Colin Firth. Between pop culture references and descriptions of an idyllic town, Mia March’s novels are definitely hot summer reads! (But any time of year works, as well!) She’s here today to answer our “Home and Away” Q&A. Given how beautifully she described the bed and breakfast and the town surrounding it (in The Meryl Streep Movie Club), this theme is a perfect fit! She could easily write a travel brochure that would lead to tons of new visitors descending upon Boothbay Harbor! And maybe…just maybe, Colin Firth and Meryl Streep will end up there in real life! Join us in wishing Mia a happy pub day!

Thanks to Gallery Books, we have THREE copies of Finding Colin Firth to give away to some lucky readers anywhere in the US and/or Canada. 

Visit Mia March at her website, Facebook and Twitter pages.

Home:

Favorite local restaurant?
A rustic lobster shack called Day’s Lobster Take-Out, on a beautiful marsh with picnic tables. Amazing lobster rolls and hand cut fries and ice cold lemonade. I take my son there too often, but how can I not?

What is your neighborhood like? 
I live in the village part of my small Maine town, full of historic early nineteenth-century houses with plaques near the front door that read: Ebeneezer Fipps House, 1822. Lots of white clapboard, including churches with huge steeples. I love walking my dog around my neighborhood and wondering about the families and stories that have passed through these old homes.

Did any celebrities (aside from yourself) go to the same school as you?
Sadly no. I would have liked for Robert Downey Jr. or Johnny Depp to have been my classmates. I would have had wild crushes on both of them.

Away:

How do you prefer to travel: plane, train or automobile?
I LOVE trains! Have to have a window seat, a good book or two, pistachio nuts, iced coffee, and no one next to me, unless that person is either very quiet or very interesting.

Have you ever been on a cruise or to an all inclusive resort? If so, what was your experience like? If not, which would you rather do?
I’ve never been on a cruise (though I’d love to some day). I have been to a couple of all inclusive resorts—once to a Club Med in the Bahamas with a boyfriend when I was 23 (the most UNromantic vacation ever; there was lots of basketball watching involved on his part). Second time was with girlfriends to the Dominican Republic. Lots of sunning, swimming, talking, and sipping fruity drinks on the beach. Now that was a great vacation.

Where is the farthest location you've ever traveled to?
Italy is the farthest (but I’ve been three times and wish I could go twice a year). Next summer I’m hoping to make it a little farther to Greece. I love traveling and am planning a fun road trip of the south west (U.S.) for August with my ten year old. We want to see cactus and red rocks and wear cowboy hats.

Special thanks to Mia for visiting with us and to Gallery Books for sharing Finding Colin Firth with our readers!

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US/Canada only. Giveaway ends July 14th at midnight EST.