IN THE SPOTLIGHT: AN INTERVIEW WITH ANGELINA JAMESON

I’m delighted to welcome Regency Romance Author ANGELINA JAMESON to Rakes and Rascals today for an exclusive interview.

I am so honoured you asked me to be on your blog. Thank you!

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R&R:
Could you tell us where you were born and what it was like growing up there?

Angelina:
I was born in Las Vegas, Nevada when the city was a bit smaller than it is now. I grew up camping a lot because my parents were first cub scout and then boy scout leaders. I spent my youth tramping around in the forests surrounding Mount Charleston or swimming at Lake Mead. (Yes, there are forests and lakes in Nevada.) I’m a twin and my sister and I were spoiled by our older brothers and sisters. There were nine kids in our house, so I had a loud, busy childhood well away from the usual Vegas glitz.

Me and my twin. I’m the one on the left

R&R:
How would you describe yourself – temperamental or easy-going?

Angelina:
Easy-going. I wasn’t always that way! The older I get the calmer I get. My mom always told me there were grey areas in life, but I would only see situations in black or white. Now I understand she was telling me I needed to be more sympathetic to others, to walk a mile in their shoes. She was always a lady and I try to be more like her every day.

R&R:
When it comes to food do you like sweet or savoury or both?

Angelina:
I gravitate toward sweets. My whole family does. Perhaps it was all the birthday cakes I ate growing up. Whenever you turned around, mom was making another birthday cake for one of us kids. And I love ice cream. Ice cream is my Achilles’ heel.

R&R:
What is your most treasured possession?

Angelina:
Wow. That’s a hard one. If I must pick one I would say it was the picture my sister Yvonne took of our mom two Christmas’s before she died. The next Christmas my mom had lost her hair due to chemo. Despite my mom having had a stroke and being in a wheelchair unable to talk, that picture captures her sweet disposition and vitality for life.

 
My mom Joan. One of the kindest people I have ever met.

R&R:
If you could afford a second home anywhere in the world where would you choose and why?

Angelina:
That’s an easy one: England! A lovely cottage in Suffolk. My husband and I met when we were both stationed at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk. After we got married we lived in Newmarket. Suffolk county holds a lot of special memories for me. You could spend a lifetime in England and never run out of Interesting or historical places to visit. I currently live in Alaska so the coldest temps in England would feel like summer to me.

 

R&R:
Finally, what has been your most embarrassing moment?

Angelina:
There are so many… The one that comes to mind I can envision as if it were yesterday, it was so mortifying to me. If you ever watched the television show Happy Days, there was a character named Pinky Tuscadero, and other characters would say she was ‘hot-to-trot.’ When I was young I was playing outside with some friends and said I was ‘hot-to-trot.’ I had no idea what that meant. My mom overheard me and explained very loudly what the phrase meant and why a little girl shouldn’t be saying such a thing. I got a good dressing down in front of all the neighbourhood kids. It was awful.

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Thank you for taking time out to be here today and sharing these interesting facts about yourself, Angelina.

Thank you for having me. I enjoyed reliving some lovely and sometimes mortifying memories!

If you would like to find out more about Angelina and her books, here are the links:

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