#ThisorThatThursday Author Interview with Emmie Caldwell (Mary Ellen Hughes)
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I’d like to welcome Emmie Caldwell (Mary Ellen Hughes) to the blog for #ThisorThatThursday!
A few of your favorite things: I like gardening, chocolate ice cream, and amazing sunsets.
Things you need to throw out: Clothes that looked frumpy ten years ago but are still usable.
Things you need for your writing sessions: A window, a bottle of water, oh, and a laptop.
Things that hamper your writing: Phone calls, Amazon deliveries, hunger.
Things you love about writing: I love creating a new character – good or evil.
Things you hate about writing: I hate discovering plot holes that require major rewriting.
Hardest thing about being a writer: The hardest thing is reading other books and not mentally editing them as I do my own writing.
Easiest thing about being a writer: The easiest thing about being a writer is writing a scene when I know exactly how I want it to go. The words just flow!
Favorite music or song: I lean toward classical music after studying piano for some years.
Music that drives you crazy: The kind that is all drums and shouting and no melody.
Things you always put in your books: An animal, well, almost always.
Things you never put in your books: Violence to an animal
Favorite places you’ve been: I love northern climes and particularly enjoyed trips to Alaska, Montana, and Norway.
Places you never want to go to again: Airports, only because of too many miserable delays and cancellations. I may change my mind, but for now I’d rather drive.
Favorite things to do: A game of doubles tennis; planting a flower garden
Things you’d run through a fire or eat bugs to get out of doing: Cleaning out a file cabinet
Things that make you happy: Being with family or friends.
Things that drive you crazy: Movies based on a book that don’t follow the book.
Most daring thing you’ve ever done: Landed on a glacier via a helicopter.
Something you chickened out from doing: Riding Space Mountain at Disney World
The nicest thing a reader said to you: One reader told me that the problem one of my characters dealt with helped her with her similar problem.
The craziest thing a reader said to you: “I thought you wrote children’s books!”
About Emmie:
Emmie Caldwell, author of the Craft Fair Knitters Mystery Series, is the pseudonym for Mary Ellen Hughes, the national bestselling author of the Keepsake Cove Mysteries, the Pickled and Preserved Mysteries, the Craft Corner Mysteries, and the Maggie Olenski Mysteries. A native of Wisconsin, Mary Ellen has lived most of her adult life in Maryland, which has inspired many of her stories.
Let’s Be Social:
http://www.maryellenhughes.com
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