Vi Keeland (Vi rhymes with “tie” not “tea”)
★ Vi is a #1 New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestselling author.
★ Vi previously worked full-time as a tax law attorney in addition to writing. No one in her office knew about her alternate life, until 4/2017 when she resigned to have
just one full-time job.
★ She’s a native New Yorker and now resides there with her husband and three children.
★ Her birthday is 5/12
★ Her driver’s license states she’s 5’1”…but that’s stretching the truth.
★ She’s a bookworm and her favorite thing to do is to sit on a quiet beach with a glass of wine, the sun hitting her face, toes buried in the sand, and read.
★ When the beach isn’t available, her other favorite reading spot is an old chair in her bedroom.
★ She loves to travel and her favorite vacation spot is Santorini, Greece.
★ Back in January, she used a microwave for the first time in fifteen years. Theirs broke when their daughter was born, and her husband who does all the cooking at home is anti-microwave.
★ She’s had the same best friend for thirty years who comes over on release days at 11 a.m. and they drink Bloody Marys.
★ She was one of six children, and together the six of them have seventeen children of their own.
★ She met her husband at age six. He had platinum blond hair, light green eyes and pushed her off her bicycle when she was eight. She still has a small scar on her left knee to prove it, but she married him anyway.
★ She wasn’t a good student in high school and her worst subject was Science. She absolutely hated it. Ironically, her husband is … you guessed it, a Science teacher.
My Q & A with Vi:
1. Where is the strangest place you’ve ever gotten a great story idea?
✧Probably in the shower or driving. That’s where almost all of my good ideas come from! I’ve pulled over and written down things that came to me on multiple
occasions.
2. Where is your bucket list vacation spot?
✧ The Maldives
3. Who is your favorite book boyfriend from another author?
✧ Gideon Cross from The Crossfire Series by Sylvia Day
4. What is your all-time favorite song?
✧ Sweet Home Alabama
5. Are you proficient at parallel parking?
✧ Yes! I live in New York
6. Who is your unicorn author?
✧ Augusten Burroughs
7. What is your favorite brand of mascara?
✧ Make Up For Ever Smoky Extravagant Mascara
8. What’s your favorite name out of all your characters?
✧ Hmmmm. That’s a tough one! Can I pick a different first name and last?
For last name: Drew JAGGER from Egomaniac. And for a first name: HUNTER Delucia from Sex Not Love.
I guess if I had to pick the best full name it would be Hunter Delucia overall.