Interview with Alexis A. Goring
- Please tell us about yourself.
My name is Alexis. I’m a writer, editor, blogger, photographer, journalist and aspiring screenwriter. I’m a total foodie! My favorite types of cuisine are Mexican food, vegetarian Filipino food, West Indian food such as guava cheese from Barbados (which is the best) and classic American meals.
I love my home state of Maryland and I dream of visiting California. I am a single lady. My Dad is a medical technologist for a hospital. My Mom is an excellent educator and administrator. My brother and his wife are both Doctors of Physical Therapy. My church family is amazing too!
2. How long have you been writing? What was it that gave you the motivation to pursue publication?
I’ve been writing as a passion since age 9. But I started writing as an assignment when my mother instructed my younger brother and I to start keeping a daily journal when each of us turned about four years old.
Writing and “publishing” my first short story at the age of 9 gave me the motivation to pursue publication as a professional writer when I grew up because I enjoyed the storytelling/writing/publishing process.
3. Tell us about your new release.
Love in Pictures is the title of my new release. It was published in June 2018. It’s a fictional Contemporary Romance story about Michelle and Logan. She’s a wedding photographer who’s never been in love and he’s a print journalist with dreams of becoming on-air talent but his personal challenge threatens to prevent his dreams from coming true.
When Logan meets Michelle, he’s on the mend from a devastating heartbreak—his ex-fiancée London chose to chase her career dreams over their plans to marry and settle down. So for the past few years, Logan’s focused on his work and avoided romantic relationships. However, something about Michelle awakens Logan’s desire to love again.
4. What inspired you to write this?
A combination of factors: My passion for wedding photography, my love for international settings like Italy, my experience as a professional journalist, and my appetite for a good love story!
5. Did you face any challenges writing this book?
Yes. I had to do story research about Italy and since it’s been more than a decade since I visited that beautiful country, and I was on a tight budget, I had to figure out a cost-free way to refresh my memory so that the scenes in my story that were set in Italy would be on point. Thank God for YouTube travel videos! It’s a challenge that was easily resolved.
6. What is your hope that readers take away from it?
My hope is that readers will take a way a few main messages: Celebration of diversity in every career field and representation of all races on the world stage are very important, you should judge a person by the content of their character (not the color of their skin) and true love should always win!
7. What are you working on now?
I’m working on my first nonfiction book project! But I cannot share details about it at this moment.
8. How can readers find you?
Readers can connect with me through my official website, https://alexisagoring.jimdo.com and they can find my social media links there on my Bio page.
9. What is something most readers would not know about you?
My last name is famous in England because of The Goring Hotel. It’s where Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, spent her last night as a single lady before her Royal Wedding to Prince William. See the hotel’s official website for more details, https://www.thegoring.com/welcome/.
10. Do you have any questions for the readers?
Yes! What would you, dear readers, like for me to write next?
Julie: I’d love for you to check out Alexis A. Goring’s latest release, Love in Pictures.
Amazon – https://amzn.to/2vDWQZd
Barnes and Noble – https://bit.ly/2PhLEg6
Alexis A. Goring is a passionate writer with a degree in Print Journalism and an MFA in Creative Writing. She loves the art of storytelling and hopes that her stories will connect readers with the enduring, forever love of Jesus Christ.
