Interview with Carole P. Roman Author of Grady Whill and the Templeton Codex @caroleproman #interview

Carole P. Roman is the award-winning author of over fifty children’s books. Whether it’s pirates, princesses, spies, or discovering the world around us, her books have enchanted educators, parents, and her diverse audience of children of all ages.

Her best-selling book, The Big Book of Silly Jokes for Kids: 800+ Jokes! has reached number one on Amazon in March of 2020 and has remained in the top 200 books since then.

She published Mindfulness for Kids with J. Robin Albertson-Wren.

Carole has co-authored two self-help books. Navigating Indieworld: A Beginners Guide to Self-Publishing and Marketing with Julie A. Gerber, and Marketing Indieworld with both Julie A. Gerber and Angela Hausman.

Roman is the CEO of a global transportation company, as well as a practicing medium.

She also writes adult fiction under the name Brit Lunden and has created an anthology of the mythical town of Bulwark, Georgia with a group of indie authors.

Writing is her passion and one of her favorite pastimes. Roman reinvents herself frequently, and her family calls her the ‘mother of reinvention.’ She resides on Long Island, near her children and grandchildren.

Her series includes:

Captain No Beard

If You Were Me and Lived in- Cultural

If You Were Me and Lived in- Historical

Nursery series

Oh Susannah- Early Reader and coloring book

Grady Whilland the Templeton Codex

Giggles Galore- Coming in December 2022

Mindfulness for Kids with co-author J. Robin Albertson-Wren

The Big Book of Silly Jokes for Kids; 800 plus Jokes! 1 and 2

Spies, Code Talkers, and Secret Agents A World War 2 Book for Kids

Navigating Indieworld- with co-author Julie A. Gerber

Marketing Indieworld- with co-authors Angela Hausman and Julie A. Gerber

Adult Fiction under the pen name Brit Lunden

Bulwark

The Knowing- Book 1- A Bulwark Anthology

The Devil and Dayna Dalton- Book 9-A Bulwark Anthology

Her latest book is the YA Grady Whill and the Templeton Codex.

Visit Carole’s website at www.CarolePRoman.com or connect with her on Twitter and Facebook.

Welcome, Carole! Your young adult fiction, Grady Whill and the Templeton Codex, sounds like quite an adventure! Can you tell us how you came up with the idea?

I come from a family of authors. We usually get together in the morning and exchange ideas. My son wanted to write a story about superheroes and then lost interest. My other son suggested it should be about superheroes going to a special school. I saw an opportunity to make it about kids with challenges and asked if he minded if I ran with it. Grady Whill was born and developed that day.

Can you tell us a little about your main characters?

Grady Whill feels he is too ordinary to make the grade at Templeton Academy. Not only does he not excel at anything and tries his best to avoid confrontations with his former friend, school bully Elwood Bledsoe. Sadly, Bledsoe thinks it's open season on Grady's autistic friend, Aarush. When they all make Templeton, new alliances must be developed with the interesting students going there.

They say all books of fiction have at least one pivotal point in the book where the reader just can't put the book down. Can you give us one of your pivotal points?

I like to think my opening chapter gets the reader hooked. It's an exciting moment that leaves the reader wondering how in the world did these two kids end up on an exploding volcano with pterodactyls flying around. Early reviewers have indicated that they were unexpectedly hooked from the first chapter.

What did you want to grow up to be when you were a child?

I wanted to be an author. But I became a teacher, business owner, CEO, and medium along the way.

Does your book carry a message?

It carries multiple messages. Here are a few of them,

"Failure can be used as a tool to succeed."

"...each one of us excelled in something, contributing to make us a more solid pack."

"Like everything else, we all have good and bad parts."

"How could she get me when I didn't even get me?"

"If you want to change your reality, change what you say to yourself."

"Do not pass judgment on another's choices. You must understand their options first."

Anything you'd like to say to your readers and fans?

Grady Whill and the Templeton Codex is a great book for both kids and their parents. It's an adventure as well as a coming of age story that people of all ages and genders can identify with.