#ThisorThatThursday Author Interview with D. A. Andrews
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I’d like to welcome author, D. A. Andrews to the blog for #ThisorThatThursday!
A few of your favorite things: I like coffee, my cat Luna, and currently New Girl.
Things you need to throw out: I definitely need to throw out a lot of old clothes, but I am sort of a hoarder and attach too many memories to things.
Things you need for your writing sessions: coffee and that elusive inspiration fairy
Things that hamper your writing: depression
Things you love about writing: How cathartic it is
Things you hate about writing: Chasing inspiration
Things you never want to run out of: Coffee
Things you wish you’d never bought: my treadmill haha
Favorite foods: anything you can make from a potato!
Things that make you want to gag: liver!
Favorite beverage: coffee
Something that gives you a sour face: porridge!
Something you’re really good at: writing
Something you’re really bad at: painting! I wish I was so much better at it!
Favorite places you’ve been: Denver, CO, Portland, OR and Savannah, GA
Places you never want to go to again: Don’t hate me! But maybe New York!
Favorite books (or genre): YA!
Books you wouldn’t buy: Science fiction
Favorite things to do: lounge around, travel, listen to audio books
Things you’d run through a fire or eat bugs to get out of doing: washing the dishes!
Things that make you happy: cats, books, me, my boyfriend
Things that drive you crazy: I have really bad road rage, so driving definitely drives me crazy.
The nicest thing a reader said to you: I want you all to know, that I hate this style of writing verse. I will say that every time I read a book that writes verse this way, because it bothers me. Sometimes so much, that it destroys the enjoyment. Especially if the poems themselves aren't anything special.
After I read the first poem I feared, that this collection would share the same fate. But I was wrong. Yes, the style still bothered me, but the words and themes reached my heart. Especially since I'm picky when it comes to love poems. In theory, I'm a romantic. But most love poems are just too sugar sunshine rainbow for me. These ones felt more real. Like something a normal human being would feel, something I could relate to. They were really nice. The ones about loss too.
I was not on board with every poem, but I can't deny that they are all nicely written.
The craziest thing a reader said to you: Probably the same thing haha
About D. A.:
D. A. Andrews was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica. Throughout the years, she has developed wide interests in various aspects of life, such as coffee, weddings, books, and psychology. She is a graduate of the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus with a BSc. in Marine Biology and Psychology (Honours) and is currently pursuing her MBA. She considers herself a nomad at heart and has changed cities and apartments quite as often as she changes her clothes. She is currently resting her head in Brunswick, Georgia, with her black cat (and familiar), Luna.
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