#ThisorThatThursday Author Interview with Freddy Cruz
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I’m excited to welcome back author and podcaster, Freddy Cruz, to the blog for #ThisorThatThursday.
Things you never want to run out of: Coffee, toilet paper
Things you wish you’d never bought: Dessert after a big dinner (makes my clothes shrink)
Hardest thing about being a writer: Writing
Easiest thing about being a writer: Writing
Things you need for your writing sessions: Sanity
Things that hamper your writing: Lack of sanity
Something you’re really good at: Negative self-talk
Something you’re really bad at: Positive self-talk
Favorite smell: Lavender
Something that makes you hold your nose: Fish
The last thing you ordered online: Handheld camcorder
The last thing you regret buying: Candy
Things you’d walk a mile for: Coffee
Things that make you want to run screaming from the room: Reality TV
Things to say to an author: Anything beginning with the words “you should have”
Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: See answer above and realize it’s THE AUTHOR’S STORY. Not yours.
Favorite places you’ve been: Santa Rosa Beach
Places you never want to go to again: New Orleans
Favorite books (or genre): Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, You by Caroline Kepnes, Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins, The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
People you’d like to invite to dinner: Chuck Palahniuk, Alex Hormozi
People you’d cancel dinner on: American commies
Besides writing, what’s the most creative thing you’ve done: Helped a client with producing thirty-one straight podcast episodes for breast cancer awareness month.
A project that didn’t quite turn out the way you planned it: A shelved novel I thought would be the most amazing thing I ever wrote.
Some real-life story that made it to one of your books: My wife’s obsession with Hallmark Christmas movies and General Hospital made it into Allow Me to Ruin Your Christmas.
Something in your story that readers think is about you, but it’s not: AC’s story arc from They Canceled the DJ and/or Lex’s story arc from Allow Me to Ruin Your Christmas
About Freddy:
Freddy Cruz is a podcast host, author, and founder of Speke Podcasting, a podcast agency in the Greater Houston area. In his spare time, you can find him nose deep in a book, snuggling with his dog Sparrow, or jogging on the trail (trying hard to not sound like a horror movie villain).
Let’s Be Social:
FB/IG: @thefreddycruz
