#ThisorThatThursday Author Interview with Michelle Bennington
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Things you never want to run out of: toilet paper, coffee
Things you wish you’d never bought: the vitamins and supplements I always forget to take
A few of your favorite things: Christmas with my mom, chocolate, coffee, my husband, and my dog
Things you need to throw out: old clothes I’ve had since college, old plastic containers that no longer have matching lids, expired food in the fridge
Things you need for your writing sessions: laptop, TV show (Monk, Dateline, or Great British Baking show, or music to fit the mood)
Things that hamper your writing: people talking (I know it doesn’t make sense. I can ignore voices on TV, but not actual people), noisy neighbors
Hardest thing about being a writer: balancing the rest of my life around a writing schedule, revision
Easiest thing about being a writer: coming up with ideas
Favorite foods: bacon, cheeseburgers, BBQ chicken pizza, fruit
Things that make you want to gag: raw fish, sea urchin, hominy
Favorite music or song:
Music that drives you crazy:
Favorite beverage: coffee, Ale-8-1, apple crisp oat milk macchiato at Starbucks
Something that gives you a sour face: many herbal teas—they sometimes taste like licorice or dirt
Favorite smell: cooking bacon, perking coffee, honeysuckle, lilac
Something that makes you hold your nose: gasoline, car exhaust, cigarettes
Something you’re really good at: making scones
Something you’re really bad at: sticking to a diet / exercise plan
Last best thing you ate: BBQ sandwhich, and chicken BBQ pizza
Last thing you regret eating: The communal chocolate at work. It apparently had been sitting in someone’s car for the whole summer.
Things you’d walk a mile for: A historical site I want to see (I’ve actually walked a mile a few times to do that in England and Scotland, but didn’t really have a choice)
Things that make you want to run screaming from the room: vocal fry, ending statements with a question, people scraping their teeth on their silverware as they eat
Favorite places you’ve been: Scotland, England
Places you never want to go to again: DMV, any store on Black Friday
Favorite books (or genre): historical fiction, classic fiction, general fiction, biographies, true history, true crime, mystery, some romance, some poetry, psych thriller (if not too violent or gory)—there’s really so many books I love and so many authors. I can’t possibly name them all!
Books you wouldn’t buy: typcially not a fan of Sci-Fi, most fantasy, most horror, most westerns, most paranormal, most YA, occult, all sports.
About Michelle:
Born and raised in the beautiful Bluegrass state of Kentucky, Michelle Bennington developed a passion for books early on that has since progressed into a mild hoarding situation and an ever-growing to-read pile. She delights in transporting readers into worlds of mystery, both contemporary and historical.
In rare moments of spare time, she can be found engaging in a wide array of arts and crafts, reading, traveling, and attending tours involving ghosts, historical sites, or distilleries.
