{Tour} My Kind of Crazy by Robin Reul (Character Interview + a Giveaway)

***Character Interview***

Today we’re sitting down with Hank from My Kind of Crazy. Hi! Welcome to Swoony Boys Podcast! We’re excited to have you with us, and can’t wait for our readers to get to know you a little better. Ready to get started? Here we go…

I spent a good three hours on the Internet trying to come up with something. Most of the things were pretty standard fare, and I knew it had to be something special. The sparklers seemed like a no-brainer because – get this – I thought there was too much room for error with my first choice. It involved covering her entire car in yellow post it’s with PROM spelled out in pink ones. It looked really cool, but it would take too long to put them on and I figured I might get caught. And then I thought about how much she’d probably hate having to take 2,000 post-it’s off her car the next morning. That’s a lot of potential paper cuts.

That she could absolutely be a serial killer! That hair – it was SO crazy, like she hadn’t used a brush, like, ever – and those eyes – they just cut right through me. Some people just have an energy about them that makes you stand up and pay attention. Peyton was like that. Instantly, I knew she was like no one I’d ever met. She scared me because I didn’t know anything about her and she seemed to know everything about me.

I think one of the things Peyton taught me is that the things that happen to you are a part of your story, but they’re not your whole story. That’s still up to you to write. Believe me, I know all about grief and loss, and it defined me for a long time too, but I realized that the only way to feel hopeful was to keep moving forward. It’s really cool if you can try to connect with someone who is willing to just listen, not try to fix you or minimize what you’re feeling. I think most people tend to focus on all the bad things that can happen, but there’s all this good stuff too. That’s how life is, and sometimes you have to seek it out and sometimes it finds you. But Peyton’s right – everything beautiful can be ugly and everything ugly can be beautiful. Everything is in a constant state of change filled with possibility. Keep an open mind that anything can happen.

She’d probably say something like obliviously adorkable and witty. And for Peyton – vibrant, honest and inappropriate. We’re a perfect team.

Try not to focus on the big picture all at once, because that can be overwhelming. Just take things one day at a time and see where they lead. What you think you want may not be what you expected once you get there, and the best laid plans can go out the window in a frickin’ heartbeat. And it may also lead to something different, even cooler, that you didn’t count on. I believe everything happens for a reason, and that at any given moment, everything is exactly as it should be. If you try and keep that perspective, it keeps you hopeful knowing you are on the right path. Like I always say: Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.

That wasn’t so bad, right? Before we let you go we are going to ask you the five questions that we ask every guy who stops by our site. Ready?

***The Swoony 5***

Boxers, hands down. No tighty whities here.

Not that I’m an expert in this department, but word on the street is I’m pretty good. And by word on the street, I mean Peyton, it being she’s the only girl I’ve ever kissed. That kiss we had the moment I found her after searching for her – there was no turning back after that. I was all in.

I am really into graphic novels and aside from the superhero based ones, I am a fan of all things Scott Pilgrim. He’s a what-could-possibly-go-wrong kind of guy just like me.

I once saw steak and eggs on a menu at a coffee shop when I was a kid. That always seemed like the craziest choice to have steak with eggs, and first thing in the morning no less. It seemed like something rich people would eat. I’ve always wanted to try it. That would be totally cool.

Vulnerability. When someone trusts me enough to show me who she really is, and they see all my quirks and crappy stuff along with all the good and still want to stick around – that’s the real deal. That kind of mutual honesty is totally hot.