Best-Selling Author Fiona Lowe has Wedding Fever!

Tell us about Saved by the Bride and the Wedding Fever trilogy. What was your inspiration for this town about weddings?

The Wedding Fever trilogy idea hit me when a major employer pulled out of my town and the following weekend I went to a really swanky wedding in the city. It got me thinking about the wedding industry and destination weddings. Saved by the Bride was born and as I was having so much fun creating Whitetail, I had to write more than one story about this wedding town.

Your background is nursing and you started with a medical romance - do you have any more of those planned?

I've written 19 medical romances and I have Gold Coast Angels: Bundle of Trouble coming out in November. I love writing these books; they're full of emotion and angst but with a guaranteed happy ending.

What did you enjoy the most about writing Annika's & Finn's story?

I think it was Annika's severe lack of co-ordination! I had so much fun with that. She walks into walls, she falls out of bed, she misses catches to the point of getting a black eye from a wedding bouquet and whenever Finn is around, her lack of co-ordination is ten times worse.

What do you read for pleasure?

I'm an eclectic reader. I belong to a book group which takes care of my literary reading and I read romance for pleasure. I enjoy historicals and humorous contemporary novels and although I enjoy category length, I really love a slightly longer book. I'm a wimp so I can't read suspense or murder mysteries as they give me heart palpitations and heartburn!

Fresh Fiction has our annual "Boas & Tiaras" event coming up. What is your favorite color of boa?

Too easy...HOT PINK!

You’ve traveled extensively. What is your favorite destination & why?

Oh, that is way too hard a question to answer. Some places, like Wisconsin, are special because we lived there and have such great friends there so returning to visit is always so much fun. Asia is close to Australia and I adore Vietnam and Borneo. Last year I had THE most relaxing holiday of my life on a tiny island in Fiji where I got to read 7 books in five days in a hammock on a gorgeous, coconut tree fringed beach. I'd go back in a heartbeat!

80 rose bushes? Really? Much admiration from me; I can only kill them :( Any advice for a rose black-thumb like me??

Actually, roses are related to the blackberry family so they are pretty indestructible and can cope with neglect. Maybe you are killing yours with kindness. They need some compost, a severe pruning each winter, sunshine and some water but not too much. Grow some pyrethrum daisies underneath them to help control aphids and spray them with soapy water if they get infested. My favourite rose is the velvet maroon Mr. Lincoln with the amazing perfume scent.

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To learn more about Fiona Lowe's Wedding Fever series, and get a peek at Whitetail, Wisconsin you can watch the book trailer here. The series starter, Saved by the Bride, is available now at Amazon, Nook, Carina Press and other online book retailers. Fiona Lowe is a RITA® and R*BY award-winning, multi-published author with Harlequin and Carina Press. Whether her books are set in outback Australia or in the mid-west of the USA, they feature small towns with big hearts, and warm, likeable characters that make you fall in love. When she's not writing stories, she's a weekend wife, mother of two 'ginger' teenage boys, guardian of 80 rose bushes and often found collapsed on the couch with wine. You can find her at her website, Facebook, Twitter and Goodreads.