#ThisorThatThursday Author Interview with Lynn Slaughter
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I’d like to welcome Lynn Slaughter to the blog for #ThisorThatThursday!
Things you need for your writing sessions: strong coffee, water, music, a scented candle, and my computer.
Things that hamper your writing: scam phone calls!
Things you love about writing: I love getting into the zone and immersing myself into my characters’ world.
Things you hate about writing: I’m lousy at marketing and social media, and that’s part of the job.
Words that describe you: warm, empathetic, humor lover
Words that describe you, but you wish they didn’t: overly sensitive
Favorite foods: pasta, chocolate, peanut butter
Things that make you want to gag: Seafood
Favorite beverage: orange juice, coffee, white wine
Something that gives you a sour face: beer
Something you’re really good at: listening
Something you’re really bad at: I have absolutely no spatial sense!
Last best thing you ate: my husband’s homemade chicken noodle soup
Last thing you regret eating: a dish made with pork that didn’t agree with me
The last thing you ordered online: gift certificate for my daughter-in-law for a “facialist” she loves
The last thing you regret buying: I ordered this automatic timer sprinkler attachment. When we turned it on, it made this ear-splitting noise that shook the whole house!
Favorite things to do: Hanging out with my husband, hugging my grandchildren, reading, writing, singing, going to garage and estate sales, supporting other writers
Things you’d run through a fire or eat bugs to get out of doing: Yard work- not my thing!
Things that make you happy: my husband, love, kindness, laughing, music, good food
Things that drive you crazy: Injustice, folks who peddle misinformation and hatred, and any sort of cruelty, especially to children
About Lynn: After a long career as a professional dancer and dance educator, Lynn Slaughter earned her MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Section Hill University. She writes coming of age romantic mysteries and is the author of the newly released Leisha’s Song; While I Danced, an EPIC finalist; It Should Have Been You, a Silver Falchion finalist; and Deadly Setup (forthcoming from Fire and Ice, 2022). She lives in Louisville, Kentucky, where she’s at work on her next novel and serves as the President of Derby Rotten Scoundrels, the Ohio River Valley chapter of Sisters in Crime.
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