Blog Tour: Results May Vary with Author Essay!
Title: Results May Vary
Author: Bethany Chase3
36 pages, published August 9, 2016
Genre: Women's Fiction
From Goodreads:

Author Essay: Bethany Chase and the Importance of Art
The art world setting of Results May Vary, like the
architectural backdrop of my first book, The
One That Got Away, came from my own personal background. My love for art
has its earliest origins in my upbringing in a family of artists—my mother,
father, aunt, great uncle and great-great-aunt were not only talented artists,
but were celebrated within our family for being so. Visual creativity, and the
appreciation of it, are in my DNA.
That being said, though, it took a long time for me to
realize how much art really meant to me. I was a writer, and then an English
major, with a soft spot for pretty old houses. And then, my junior year of
college, I went to Europe for the first time. I spent the year studying among the
golden spires of Oxford, and traveled from there to London and Paris and Rome
and Florence, where I prowled some of the finest art museums in the world, and
I fell in love. Standing in the Indian and Islamic galleries in London’s
Victoria & Albert museum, staring dumbstruck at the richness of pattern and
color on display everywhere I looked, I felt something catch fire inside me
that hasn’t gone out since. I came back from my year abroad and, since I’d
managed to finish nearly all the requirements from my English major in my three
first years of school, I took seven art history classes in my senior year.
Indian & Islamic art; East Asian art; Egyptian art; a two-part introductory
survey of Western art; medieval European art; 18th & 19th
century European art. I devoured everything I could get my hands on; and then,
belatedly, considered how I might go about trying to get a job in this field I
loved so much.
It wasn’t until several years later that, while still trying
to channel my obsession with art and color and pattern into a viable career, I
discovered through interior design classes that I did have some artistic talent
of my own, after all. But, very much like Caroline, I know that talent is
modest; and the need to create art for its own sake has never pushed at me. I
am quite happy to study it and marvel over it and interpret it and feel it, the way it was meant to be
felt. And now, as an author, it gives me deep delight to tap into that passion
and meld it to a story I can share with readers. It is something that I hope my
books will always do.
I'm not to far into this one, but loving it so far!
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