Book Title: Binding Arbitration
Author: Elizabeth Marx
Genre: Romance, Family Saga, Contemporary/Chick Lit
Publisher: Self Published
Paperback/Ebook:
Pages: 477
PURCHASE
BOOK DESCRIPTION OF BINDING ARBITRATION
Through the corridors of the Windy City’s criminal courts, single mother Libby Tucker knows exactly how far she’ll go to save her cancer-stricken son’s life. The undefeated defense attorney is prepared to take her fight all the way to the majors.
Circumstances force Libby to plead her case at the cleats of celebrity baseball player Banford Aidan Palowski, the man who discarded her at their college graduation. Libby has worked her backside bare for everything she’s attained, while Aidan has been indulged since he slid through the birth canal and landed in a pile of Gold Coast money. But helping Libby and living up to his biological duty could jeopardize the only thing the jock worships: his baseball career.
If baseball imitates life, Aidan admits his appears to be silver-plated peanuts, until an unexpected confrontation with the most spectacular prize that’s ever poured from a caramel corn box blindsides him. When he learns about his son’s desperate need, it pricks open the wound he’s carried since he abandoned Libby and the child.
All Libby wants is a little anonymous DNA, but Aidan has a magical umpire in his head who knows Libby’s a fateball right to the heart. When a six-year-old sage and a hippy priestess step onto the field, there’s more to settle between Libby and Aidan than heartache, redemption, and forgiveness.
Also check out Cutters vs. Jocks!
On the idyllic campus of Indiana University, Little-Libby-Nobody runs into Band-Aid, All-American-Athlete, and fireworks explode. Libby and Aidan spiral into a collision course of love at first sight versus lust you can’t fight. As the game plays out and their affection grows, they soon realize that labels like cutters and jocks can’t keep them apart.
But when Libby and Aidan find themselves in trouble they have to confront the reality of where they each fit in the others’ world. Libby believes superstar jocks don’t take cutters to Rose Well House, in the center of campus, at midnight and pledge their undying devotion beneath its sparkling dome. And Band-Aid imagines there’s no place for a pregnant, small-town waitress in his bull-pen or the major leagues. What happens when worthy opponents refuse to play their hearts out?
INTERVIEW WITH ELIZABETH MARX
Elizabeth Marx: Thanks so much for taking the time to interview me Avid Reader.
The Avid Reader: Thank you for taking the time to visit with me today and welcome to The Avid Reader. I am glad you stopped by.
The Avid Reader: What inspired you to write BINDING ARBITRATION?
Elizabeth Marx: I went to Indiana University with my husband for a baseball reunion weekend and while we were sitting at this fountain in the center of campus a young couple sat down across from us and they shared this romantic moment and it made me remember the intensity of a college love affair. And then I looked at the girl who seemed to be a cutter (townie) and the boy who appeared to be an athlete and my writers mind took it from there. That’s where Cutters vs. Jocks, the FREE prequel to BA came from! It’s free for KINDLE & NOOK
The Avid Reader: When or at what age did you know you wanted to be a writer?
Elizabeth Marx: I went to the Chicago Public Library a lot when I was a kid. I’ve always loved books, reading, and just the feeling of being surrounded by bookcases full of information and imagination. I fell in love with words that rubbed together to create other worlds and realities. I won a writing contest in 8th grade, so it must have started around then.
The Avid Reader: What is the earliest age you remember reading your first book?
Elizabeth Marx: I didn’t read myself until sometime in second grade and I remember the book too. Frog and Toad Are Friends, it was a Caldecott Medalist. I must have had good taste in books from the beginning.
The Avid Reader: What genre of books do you enjoy reading?
Elizabeth Marx: I read everything from the Austen to Evanovich. Romance is probably my favorite category, anything from contemporary to historical to paranormal. I also read a lot of historical non-fiction mostly for research. I wish I had more time to read, but it’s difficult to fit it in when you’re writing yourself.
The Avid Reader: What is your favorite book? Who is your favorite author and why?
Elizabeth Marx: I put these two questions together because for me they’re related. My favorite book is Persuasion by Jane Austen. I re-read it a least once a year. Jane Austen is my favorite author because she writes romance, but her romances are complicated and complex. Her hero’s are dark and brooding, her heroines, though trapped by the conventions of their time, are spirited and strong. There’s something about the depth of the love between Captain Wentworth and Anne Elliot that is so palatable that you almost feel yourself a voyeur of their love affair. Austen has an innate ability to make us love and hate characters, even her secondary characters have stood the test of time for two hundred years. I guess she’s my favorite because she’s my idol.
The Avid Reader: If you could travel back in time here on earth or any place or time. Where would you go and why?
Elizabeth Marx: I’m a big history buff so my answer to the time travel question will always be dependent on what I’m researching or thinking about in reference to my writing. I’m almost finished with a short novel set in the middle ages in Wales and England. So I guess you should plop me down on Hexam Levels, near Westmoreland. Be forewarned there’s a battle brewing between the red and white roses and I have no idea which King’s side I’m on. There is also a vampire looking for a box that’s hidden somewhere on my estate and once he comes for it, he decides he wants something else from me, something his dark desires require more than blood…
The Avid Reader: When writing a book do you find that writing comes easy for you or is it a difficult task?
Elizabeth Marx: Writing easy, editing hard! I don’t get writers block because I usually have two or three ideas going at a time, so if I feel stuck or stifled I work on something different and whatever is clouding my progress seems to clear up when I work on something else. I write the first draft clear through to the end and then I go back and rewrite and edit, it’s the third pass through of the edit that always gets me!
The Avid Reader: Do you have little fuzzy friends?
Elizabeth Marx: Yes, I have two cats. Lord Luxor and Sir Sherbert are full blooded Maine Coons. I’ll attach Luxy’s picture here, Sherbs is a little photo sensitive right now, he got shaved a few weeks ago because his hair was in a knot. When Sherbs came home Lux took one sniff and hissed and he continued hissing for the next three days. I don’t know if it was the dog smell from the groomer or Lux’s way of letting us know there was no way in Hades we were doing that to him!
The Avid Reader: What are your “to die for” favorite foods to eat?
Elizabeth Marx: Chicago is a great restaurant town so there is no short supply of choices. Mexican is my favorite so I’d go with Hot Tamales and their famous BBQ Chicken Enchiladas.
The Avid Reader: Do you have any advice for anyone that would like to be an author?
Elizabeth Marx: Write. Read. Write more. Read more. Re-write the manuscript. Re-read your favorites. Write a third draft. Edit. Put manuscript under your bed. Write something new. Edit. Read. Pull 1st manuscript out & re-write/edit. Find professional editor. Edit. Read. Rinse. Repeat.
Thanks for visiting with me and happy reading, reviewing and writing! Elizabeth Marx
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Windy city writer, Elizabeth Marx, brings cosmopolitan life alive in her fiction—a blend of romance, fast-paced Chicago living, and a sprinkle of magical realism. In her past incarnation she was an interior designer, not a decorator, a designer, which basically means she has a piece of paper to prove that she knows how to match things, measure things and miraculously make mundane pieces of furniture appear to be masterpieces. Elizabeth says being an interior designer is one part shrink, one part marriage counselor and one part artist, skills eerily similar to those employed in writing.
Elizabeth grew up in Illinois, but has also lived in Texas and Florida. If she’s not pounding her head against the wall trying to get the words just right, you can find her at a softball field out in the boonies somewhere or sitting in the bleachers by a basketball court. Elizabeth resides with her husband, girls, and two cats who’ve spelled everyone into believing they’re really dogs.
Elizabeth has traveled extensively, but still says there’s no town like Chi Town.
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4 comments:
Thanks for your interest in BINDING ARBITRATION and taking the time to interview me. BTW, I have BA bookmarks available, if anyone would like some please check out my FB author page and look for the bookmark post, leave a comment, a like, and PM me your address (US) and I'll send them to you! Also, the prequel, CUTTERS VS JOCKS is still FREE! Happy reading and reviewing.
Elizabeth Marx
This was an awesome interview!! I need to read this book in paperback!!
Thanks Eliazbeth Marx for visiting The Avid Reader and thanks for chatting with me.
Thanks Kellee Fabre. Yes it does sound very interesting. Thanks for stopping by.
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