Spotlight & Giveaway: Off the Map by Trish Doller

Posted March 7th, 2023 by in Blog, Spotlight / 30 comments

Today it is my pleasure to Welcome author Trish Doller to HJ!
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Hi Trish  and welcome to HJ! We’re so excited to chat with you about your new release, Off the Map!

 

Please summarize the book for the readers here:

Off the map is about two people thrown together by fate, Guinness, and a destination wedding, who take the long way across Ireland in a vintage Land Rover. Along the way, they encounter an Irish traffic jam (IYKYK), a sangria-loving bull, and a surf festival. And they also realize they might be more to each other than just a fling.
 

Please share your favorite line(s) or quote from this book:

Carla and her stepmom, Stella, are talking after something big and important and spoiler-y has happened. Stella is a little larger than life. Kind of like…well, imagine Dolly Parton meets Linda Evans’ hair during her Dynasty days. Anyway, this big, important, spoiler-y thing happens, and Stella gives Carla some really good advice.

“You’re very wise,” I say. “Like if Yoda and Dolly Parton had a baby.”
“That would be one weird baby.”
“Exactly.”

 

Please share a few Fun facts about this book…

  • Off the Map was inspired by my son, who outfitted his 2001 Jeep Wrangler TJ for overland camping and drove it from Florida, across the United States, through Mexico, and ended up in Guatemala City, before returning home. He had some amazing adventures, caused a little ruckus, and brought me home a grandpuppy, and I thought, “What if….?”
  • I make a playlist for every book I write and listen on repeat throughout the writing process. You can listen to the Off the Map playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5z7m6I4mggcEufTkxDnLMZ?si=63152f517e5b473e!

 

What first attracts your Hero to the Heroine and vice versa?

It’s kind of hard not to be attracted to a beautiful woman who grabs the front of your shirt, pulls you in, and kisses you. But once Carla shows Eamon her National Parks Passport—a window into her life, personality, and wanderlust—he realizes she’s the person he’s always wanted to be. And then it’s even more difficult.

 

Did any scene have you blushing, crying or laughing while writing it? And Why?

This is a 100% accurate depiction of how I wrote Carla and Eamon’s first sex scene: Write a sentence, blush furiously, take a sip of wine, and look at something on the internet until the embarrassment burned off. Rinse. Repeat. By the time the sex scene was finished, I was pretty much drunk and no longer embarrassed, so I could edit it to be even hotter. Yay, drunk me!

Also, the entire end of the book makes me cry every time. I don’t want to give anything away, but yeah…even now I have trouble reading it (or listening on audio) because it’s so tender.

 

Readers should read this book….

Sheep! And because it’s a funny, thoughtful exploration of home, family, and finding happiness and purpose in life.

 

What are you currently working on? What other releases do you have in the works?

I am currently working on a novel called Rebound, Inc., about a therapist who owns a relationship surrogacy service for people to heal from past relationship pain, who discovers her ex-boyfriend has signed up—to help get over her. I’m also plotting another novel tentatively titled Take It Up with the Stars, in which an ennui-riddled amateur astronomer crosses paths with a fly-by-night astrologer.
 

Thanks for blogging at HJ!

 

Giveaway: One finished copy of OFF THE MAP to a US only winner.

 

To enter Giveaway: Please complete the Rafflecopter form and Post a comment to this Q: Eamon is harboring a secret travel plan. Carla has spent most of her life traveling the Americas in her old Jeep Wrangler. Both have bucket list destinations they’d like to visit one day…do you? What places are on your bucket list?

 
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Book Info:

Carla Black’s life motto is “here for a good time, not for a long time.” She’s been traveling the world on her own in her vintage Jeep Wrangler for nearly a decade, stopping only long enough to replenish her adventure fund. She doesn’t do love and she doesn’t ever go home.

Eamon Sullivan is a modern-day cartographer who creates digital maps. His work helps people find their way, but he’s the one who’s lost his sense of direction. He’s unhappy at work, recently dumped, and his one big dream is stalled out—literally.

Fate throws them together when Carla arrives in Dublin for her best friend’s wedding and Eamon is tasked with picking her up from the airport. But what should be a simple drive across Ireland quickly becomes complicated with chemistry-filled detours, unexpected feelings, and a chance at love – if only they choose it.
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Meet the Author:

TRISH DOLLER is a writer, traveler, and dog rescuer, but not necessarily in that order. She is the international bestselling author of Float Plan, The Suite Spot, and Off the Map. She has also written several YA novels, including the critically acclaimed Something Like Normal. When she’s not writing, Trish loves sailing, camping, and avoiding housework. She lives in southwest Florida with an opinionated herding dog and an ex-pirate.
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30 Responses to “Spotlight & Giveaway: Off the Map by Trish Doller”

  7. Glenda M

    Scotland, Italy, Ireland, Germany Australia, New Zealand, Alaska, all the national parks, . . . . Yeah it’s a big one.

  19. Patricia B.

    I have had my travel list for over 50 years. I have managed to do some of it, but there is still much to go. Asia never got completed and the Middle East was safe to travel at the time (unlike S. E. Asia) but isn’t so much right now. North Africa and Europe are still on the list. I hope we get to do Ireland, England, and Scotland this year. Our daughter has a conference in Germany in October and we may try to go along (she needs a babysitter for our granddaughter while in business meetings). There are plans to explore more of Germany, and France also. My husband and I would really like to visit Australia and New Zealand. We have visited all but one state (Michigan) and much of Canada. Going south, Costa Rica is high on our list. We have done most of the Carribean. If we can ever manage to I would love to go on an African safari.
    We have a classic Land Rover, a 1972 we bought new. The first year we had it, we built a platform for the roof we could put a tent on. We camped in the Maine woods and the Adirondacks. Too bad we didn’t develop the idea more and patent it. There are many such options out there now.

  21. Latesha B.

    Greece, Scotland, Itay, Spain, Portugal, Egypt, India and Morrocco