As a teaser to get readers interested in Destiny Binds, Tammy answered a bunch of questions that I posed to Scout (the main character) and her brother Jase. Hope you enjoy meeting Scout and Jase and get a taste of Tammy's humor.
What's the worst thing about sharing a bathroom?
Scout: Wet towels that never seem to make it to the rack. A toilet seat that is never down. Basketball uniforms that get wadded up and thrown in the corner until they’re able to walk downstairs to the washing machine all by themselves.
Jase: Squeezable Lip Smackers.
Scout: Seriously? That was like five years ago.
Jase: And I spent four months never knowing when or where I would discover glittery, cherry flavored blobs on my person.
What are 5 things you would expect to find in your sibling’s backpack?
Jase: The Big Boring Book of Math; The Big Boring Book of English; The Big Boring Book of History; The Backwards Book of Weird Japanese Comics; and a pack of gum
Scout: Sports Illustrated; homework he should have turned in three weeks ago; a collection of McDonald’s receipts; an entire bag’s worth of potato chip crumbs; and the iPod Angel can’t find anywhere
Jase: I do not have Angel’s iPod
Scout: *raises eyebrows*
Jase: You’re not going to tell her, are you?
What is on your iPod/MP3 players?
Scout: I’ve been listening to a lot of Sea Wolf and Josh Ritter lately
Jase: What she means is, “I’ve been listening to whiny, folky crap that makes you want to slit your wrists.”
Scout: So says the boy who thinks Jay-Z qualifies as music.
Jase: Jay-Z does qualify as music. Just ask the Grammy’s.
Scout: You know who else wins Grammy’s? Taylor Swift.
Jase: Point taken.
What is your idea of the perfect date?
Jase: Front row tickets to a Lakers game and some In-and-Out burgers.
Scout: How on earth do you manage to talk girls into dating you? Does the word “romance” mean anything to you?
Jase: My date involves a trip to LA. That’s classy. But I suppose it doesn’t live up to the romance of all those nights you sat at Dairy Queen listening to Dalton Riley ramble on about he was going to go to Harvard because he was the smartest man to ever live.
Scout: I hate you.
Who is your favorite fictional character and if you could spend an afternoon with them what would you do?
Scout: That’s hard. Atticus Finch would be cool, but I don’t know what we would really do together. I mean, I don’t really have any desire to be involved in a racially charged trial and my dad is pretty awesome, so I don’t really need any of that fatherly stuff. Would it be too horribly trite to say that I would want to hang out with Harry Potter at Hogwarts? Because, seriously, that would be awesome.
Jase: I want a one-on-one match with Michael Jordan.
Scout: Michael Jordan is a real person.
Jase: Yeah. So?
Scout: So he’s not a fictional character. Pick a fictional character.
Jase: Fine. I want to hang out with Harry Potter, too. But not at the school. I want to go to that store Fred and George opened. That looked really cool in the movie.
Who was your favorite TV cartoon character as a kid?
Jase: Scooby Doo. He was the coolest dog ever.
Scout: A tie between Buttercup and Mojo Jojo from The Powerpuff Girls.
Jase: Mojo Jojo? Why do you always like the bad guys?
Scout: They’re not bad. They’re just misunderstood.
If you can have any kind of supernatural power/ability what would it be?
Scout: I want to be Batman. I know that’s not really a supernatural power, but those always seem so silly. I mean, immortals who are allergic to garlic or sparkle in the sun? Seriously?
Jase: Vampires are stupid, but people who can turn into animals? That’s cool. I would be one of those.
Last question, if you found your sibling’s diary, would you read it?
Scout: Jase doesn’t keep a diary.
Jase: But if I did...?
Scout: Honestly? I would probably read a few pages before the guilt made me stop. Unless it’s an account of your dating escapades. Then I would only make it a couple of sentences before the nausea hit. Would you read my diary?
Jase: Been there, done that.
Scout: You have not.
Jase: “Today I almost tripped Ashley Johnson in the hallway. I didn’t, of course, but I seriously thought about it. I imagined it all in my head. Her toppling over and bursting those stupid, fake boobs...”
Scout: Give me one good reason not to kill you.
Jase: Because I’m your brother and you love me.
Thanks to Miss Tammy for the character interview. Tammy Blackwell is the Young Adult Services Coordinator for a public library system in Kentucky. When she's not reading, writing, or cataloging books, she's sleeping. She is the author of the YA Novel Destiny Binds
