Today author Carolyn Crane is taking over Book Lovers Inc and her mission is to mislead…ahem…tell you some more or less interesting facts about you Book Lovers. She just couldn’t pass on her chance to tell you the TRUTH about this team. Be sure to double-check her facts and you might win a prize pack!

Hi everybody, and happy blogoversary to the Book Lovers!

As part of the Authors’ takeover for the fabulous Book Lovers Inc, I’m here with a quiz about the writers and reviewers behind this blog.

Stella- The Latin Lover
…which two facts are fake?

1. Stella’s fatal weakness is French fries. She cannot stop eating them, and if you put an endless basket of fries in front of her, it is highly likely she would eat herself to death!

2. Stella has 365 different dolls in her doll collection, and every day, she puts a new one out on the kitchen table to watch over her when she eats her breakfast.

3. Stella feels that a meal is NOT complete without dessert. If you invite her to your home and do not feed her dessert after the meal…well, you don’t want to know.

4. In addition to the books she talks about here on Book Lovers Inc, Stella can be found reading entire books of Greek mythology, Operas, and Shakespearean plays.

5. Stella mutters in English.

6. Stella fights with her sister in French.

7. Stella talks dirty in Dutch.

Jojo- The Cornered Lover
…which two facts are fake?

1. The Twilight Saga was Jojo’s total gateway book back into a love of genre reading.

2. Even though Jojo is a country girl, she doesn’t like Western-themed romances.

3. Jojo has a tiny tattoo of the name Zsadist inside a tiny heart somewhere on her body…but she won’t tell where it is!

4. Jojo enjoys bungee jumping so much, that she and her husband were married while bungee jumping. The wedding guests had to stand on the bridge above!

5. Jojo is HEAVY into highlanders!

Bea- The Charmed Lover
…which two facts are fake?

1. Bea has parachuted from an airplane.

2. Bea’s favorite animal is the turtle, but she hates frogs, and won’t even touch frog statuettes.

3. Bea is a pre-school teacher

4. When Bea was two, a neurologist told her father she was mentally retarded, but it turned out he trying to communicate with her in a language she didn’t even know.

5. Bea loves JD Robb’s In Death Series so much, she named her cat Roarke, but she regrets it now, because she would rather name her first male child Roarke, but if she did now, it would be named after her cat!

Larissa- The Crazy Lover
…which two facts are fake?

1. Larissa started teaching English as second language at the age of 17.

2. Larissa is Brazilian and Israeli.

3. Larissa plays the bagpipes, and has since the age of 8. She is always amazed how few people know that bagpipes are a hugely popular instrument in Brazil!

4. Larissa first appeared on Brazilian TV at 6 years old.

5. How amazing and special are Larissa’s hands? SO amazing and special that she makes money working as a hand model, modeling expensive diamond rings on in Brazilian TV commercials.

6. How amazing and special are Larissa’s feet? SO special and amazing that she was stalked by a feet-loving weirdo when she visited the US last year!

Lea- The Danger Lover
…which two facts are fake?

1. Lea has a passion for post-it-notes. She has a huge amount of them in all colors and sizes.

2. Lea is known for the pecan pies that she bakes for the homeless. Her secret ingredient: saffron!

3. Lea has a passion for Johnny Depp.

4. Lea LOVES author swag – especially pens!

5. Lea once knit a scarf out of yarn she made from her dog Tori’s fur, which she collected on brushes for 5 years, and the scarf won a major award from a Canadian Magazine and was featured in a fashion show!

Caroline- The HEA Lover
…which two facts are fake?

1. Caroline can touch her ear with her tongue.

2. When Caroline was 12, a man touched her hands in the street and told her and her parents she would have twins, and to this day, her parents believe that.

3. Caroline once had a wardrobe malfunction where all but one of the buttons on her dress popped open while she was dancing at a club in front of 300 people.

4. Caroline speaks to her dog in English.

5. Caroline was a child prodigy in baton twirling and tap dancing. She was on TV once when she was 11, and she twirled her baton and did tap while wearing a tiny police officer’s outfit, pretending to direct traffic.

6. Caroline is afraid something will grab her feet when she goes up the stairs to her room at night.

HAS The Smutty Lover
…which two facts are fake?

1. Has is a bookaholic!

2. ‘The Smutty lover’ is actually an ironic nickname – HAS does not enjoy smut. She turns up her nose at sex scenes, and if there are dirty words in a book, she throws it across the room.

3. HAS loves Patricia Briggs!

4. On a dare, HAS once swallowed ten pennies.

5. HAS loves cult TV shows and movies.

Amanda- The Winged Lover
…which two facts are fake?

1. Amanda HATES chocolate. She gets sick of people talking about chocolate all the time, and really hates it when people give her gifts of chocolate.

2. Amanda HATES people touching her feet, and she hates talking about feet, and everything to do with feet, especially TOES!!

3. Amanda can’t burp by choice….the only time she can burp is if she’s about to be sick.

4. Amanda can wiggle her ears.

5. Amanda LOVES tofu…even though she is not a vegetarian.

6. Amanda works in accounting.

Susi- The Geeky Lover
…which two facts are fake?

1. Susi has a total aversion to bellybuttons and everything bellybutton related! And she HATES when people touch her bellybutton!

2. Susi LOVES Star Wars, and often wears her hair in coiled braids at the sides of her head, just like Princess Leia.

3. Susi HATES to touch a sandy surface – sandy surfaces make her SHUDDER.

4. Susi LOVES horses. She loves to ride them and wishes she could live on a horse farm.

5. Susi reads her labels, and she can’t eat anything that expires in less than 48 hours.

Melissa- The Spellbound Lover
…which two facts are fake?

1. Melissa has a Johnny Depp tattoo, but she won’t tell anybody where on her body it is.

2. Melissa LOVES pickled pigs’ feet – seriously! It was a special dinner in her family when she was growing up, served only when her grandparents visited, and eating them brings back good memories.

3. Melissa once had a premonition that something bad would happen but she ignored it…and then somebody ran a red light and zoomed in front of her and she hit them. Now she pays attention to her premonitions.

4. Melissa enjoys going to psychics. Sometimes she helps them out by contributing helpful information, and also, enjoys going to different ones and comparing their readings.

5. When Melissa was a child, she would deliberately stomp on bees, then cry when then stung her, wash her feet with cold water, and then stomp some more bees!

Jennifer the YA Lover
…which two facts are fake?

1. Jennifer owns her own photography studio.

2. Jennifer owns a singing telegram business.

3. Jennifer hates elves and leprechauns, and is SUPER creeped out when St. Patrick’s day rolls around.

4. Jennifer’s gateway back into reading was Twilight – she devoured the whole series in a week.

Veronica – the Sexy Lover
…which two facts are fake?

1. Veronica works with authors on publicity.

2. Veronica is a bookaholic!

3. Way before Veronica lived in the house she lives in, an old woman lived there and fell down the stairs and died, and Veronica believes that her cat can see the woman’s ghost.

4. Veronica loves the work of Ilona Andrews!

5. Veronica likes to relax by doing needlepoint portraits…of nude men!

Jackie- The Quirky Lover
…which two facts are fake?

1. While working in the lingerie department of a department store, Jackie was asked to do a bra fitting on a man.

2. Jackie had a tiny tiny tattoo on her ankle of the name Zsadist…with a tiny heart around it.

3. To this day, Jackie cannot sleep with a closet door open…but feels perfectly safe if the closet door is closed.

4. Jackie has a fear of things grabbing her feet from under the bed!

5. Jackie was a very serious jazz dancer at one time, and once won an award in a talent show for a dance she choreographed with 3 other people, to the Michael Jackson song “Billy Jean.”

Leave in the comments which facts are fake for each lover. One winner (worldwide) will be drawn from the correct entries (or, if none are correct, the one with the most correct answers), and that winner will win their choice of Prize A or Prize B:


Prize A: a book of their choice from Book Depository (sorry, not a hardcover!!)

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