It’s time to deck the halls and what better way to do it is to find out what your favorite authors are up to this joyous and oh-so-busy time of year. Today’s guest is me! I’m on a mini-virtual book tour for Romancing the Soul: True Stories of Soul Mates from Around the World and Beyond (Zumaya Publications) and I thought it would be cool to let everyone know how I deck the halls, too!
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Thank you for being my guest at Literarily Speaking! Is Christmas your favorite holiday?
Dorothy: Well you are welcome! Don’t I know you? Oh, never mind. What were we talking about? Oh, yes, is Christmas my favorite holiday? Absolutely! Feasts, family and friends – what more could you want?
How do you prepare for the holidays? Do you decorate?
Dorothy: I do decorate. This year I’m getting a late start because we have 64 authors on tour (not blaming them!) but a girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do. Can you believe it’s December 8 and I still don’t have my tree up? Well honey…let me tell you, today I started bringing up the boxes from the mud room closet downstairs and I’m going through them while I wait for my son to get his toosh over here to help me put it up this weekend. We live in a condo so no decorating outside except for a wreath on the back door but inside it’s Christmas wonderland..once I get it up of course!
What’s your most favorite ornament?
Dorothy: Hm…I love my red hat ladies ornament and the ornaments that were handmade by my kids when they were little but my favorite….that’s a toughie. Now my most sentimental one is an ornament that was either my grandmother’s or my great-grandmother’s. I used to put it on the tree to have my loved ones with me, but I was afraid it would get broken so I tucked it away. This year I’m looking for an ornament where you can put a picture inside. Cassie, my fifteen year old cocker spaniel died in August and she would have so loved to have been here this year to help open presents.
What’s your favorite outside activity during the holidays? Or are you a winter hating humbug like me?
Dorothy: Okay since I asked myself my own question, I guess you know I’m a winter hating humbug. Here’s the thing. We live on the water. That might sound all nice and everything and you can’t beat it in the summer but the winters are torturous. Our carport is like a wind tunnel and sometimes you can’t even catch your breath just getting in the car. However, no matter how much it snows, I still like playing in it.
What kind of holiday activities do you enjoy doing with family and/or friends?
Dorothy: My daughter is a gourmet cook and with all gourmet cooks comes the want to get everyone out of the kitchen – including me. But, we do get together to do the Christmas dinner thing. My son, daughter and I get together to go Christmas shopping, the few days that are available where we can all be together at once. We used to do more, but they’re older now. Sigh.
What is the best present anyone could ever give to you?
Dorothy: Peace of mind that the world is going to stay a safe place.
If you could go anywhere in the world during the holidays, where would that be?
Dorothy: Wow, what a great question, Dorothy! How did you know I love to travel? Well. If I could go anywhere I wanted to during the holidays, it would be to a cabin in a Smokies and have an old-fashioned Christmas.
Solid white lights or multicolored lights?
Dorothy: White inside, colored out (although I have to fight with my daughter on this one as she likes white both inside and out).
Favorite holiday song?
Dorothy: What’s the one by Mariah Carey? Oh wait, the one in Home Alone? No wait wait…my mother used to have a Christmas album of Johnny Mathis songs. When I hear one of his songs playing at Christmas, that really takes me back.
Have you ever had to spend a Christmas away from home?
Dorothy: Nope.
What do you want Santa to bring you this year?
Dorothy: A nice long tropical vacation (preferably not during hurricane season).
One last question, isn’t this fun? What does Christmas mean to you?
Dorothy: I said it above – feasts, family and friends. ;o)
Thanks so much for the interview, Dorothy. Do you have any final words?
Dorothy: May everyone have a Happy Holiday!
Dorothy Thompson is the compiler/editor/co-author of Romancing the Soul: True Stories of Soul Mates From Around the World and Beyond, as well as other relationship ebooks such as How to Find and Keep Your Soul Mate and 101 Facts You Never Knew About Soul Mates. Her relationship columns have appeared in eNotAlone, SistersDiva Magazine, MindBodySpirit Magazine, Singles Cafe, SinglesStop, Innerself, Single Again, Free Spirit Centre, Holistic Harmony, SpiritualMinds, Self-Growth, Into the Mystic, Romance Stuck and many other relationship ezines as well as The Eastern Shore News and The Daily Times, both Gannet Publications. She has been featured in the supermarket tabloid, OK! Magazine as well as appearing as a special guest on many radio programs including Lifetime Radio, Single Talk, Cuzzin Eddie Show and A Book and a Chat.
Her many upcoming projects include a self-help book titled The Soul Mate Triangle: Unlocking the Mysteries of the Soul Mate Relationship (due to be released by Zumaya Publications in 2013) and several other books in various stages of production.
Dorothy is also CEO/Founder of Pump Up Your Book, an innovative public relations agency specializing in online book publicity and social media. You can visit her website at www.PumpUpYourBook.com or follow her on Twitter at www.twitter.com/pumpupyourbook and Facebook at www.facebook.com/pumpupyourbook.
Dorothy lives on the beautiful island of Chincoteague, Virginia.
About Romancing the Soul
Snow White and Prince Charming. Romeo and Juliet. Beauty and the Beast. Harry and Sally. These are all names that come to mind when one thinks of the term “soul mates,” but what does it actually mean? More importantly, how do we find our soul mates and would we know what to look for? Romancing the Soul – True Stories of Soul Mates from Around the World and Beyond brings together sixty beautiful and compelling stories from people all over the world who have found their soul mates through real-life miracles and chance encounters. From karmic soul mates to twin souls, these powerful and heartwarming stories will not only mystify you, they’ll make a believer out of you. Relationship expert Dorothy Thompson has compiled sixty stories into three sections – karmic, companion and twin souls – so that you can know without a doubt who your own soul mates are with no guessing. More than sixty authors have banded together to tell their true soul mate experiences – some of which will surprise you – in the hope this will be a reference for all those who are searching, whether it be for relationships, friendships or personal gratification. A stepping stone toward understanding the soul mate experience, this is the book for the soul mates of the New Age and will have a profound effect on your search for your own soul mate.
Romance Junkies calls Romancing the Soul “Amazing…beautiful and emotional. Romancing the Soul has made a believer out of me. Even though I have finished the book, the book has not finished with me.”
Susie Housley of MyShelf says, “I feel that it accurately captures the true essence of what the world “love” truly means. I found myself caught in a roller coaster of emotions that quickly went spinning out of control. Very highly recommended.”
“If you’ve been searching for unconditional love and spiritual kinship all your life,” says Amara Rose, ordained minister of The Universal Life Church and author of What You Need to Know Now – A Road Map for Personal Transformation, “you must read Romancing the Soul. Dorothy Thompson knows the pathway, and has gathered profound soul mate stories to make you laugh, cry, and shout with joy, ‘Yes, I’m ready to meet mine!’”
Donna Britt of Lifetime Radio says, ““Dorothy is on to something here. She has a real insight into ’soul’ mates…her story comes from the heart.””
Mayra Calvani of Midwest Book Reviews says, “This is a book to be cherished, to give to a special friend or keep at your bedside table to be read and re-read at night whenever you’re feeling down. A feast for the soul. Highly recommended.”
“This book will touch your heart, bring tears to your eyes and a smile to your face,” says Larry James of CelebrateLove.com and author of How to Really Love the One You’re With. “Explore all the soulmate possibilities as you experience what others have when they discovered the spiritual connection that changed their life and their relationship. An excellent read!”
Giveaways, Contests & Prizes!
Dorothy Thompson, co-author/editor of the anthology, Romancing the Soul: True Soul Mate Stories From Around the World and Beyond, is offering one free paperback copy of her book at Pump Up Your Book’s 1st Annual Holiday Extravaganza Facebook Party on December 16. More than 50 books, gifts and cash awards will be given away! Click here for details!
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