#ThisorThatThursday Author Interview with Teresa Trent
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I’d like to welcome author Teresa Trent to the blog for #ThisorThatThursday!
I’d like to welcome the fabulous Teresa Trent to the blog today for #ThisorThatThursday!
Things you need for your writing sessions: I need a quiet room. I might put on music, but when I’m really into it, it’s just me and all those people in my head.
Things that hamper your writing: If I’m stressed out over something new in my life, I have a hard time writing. For example, my son being in the hospital. I couldn’t write at all until we knew he was going to be okay, then I couldn’t stop writing. I guess I had bottled up on my writing urges.
Things you love about writing: I love to create characters, situations, ideal worlds. I love to write an outline and work my way through it.
Things you hate about writing: Hands down—editing. One of the methods I use for writing is dictation, especially when I’m on a roll. Unfortunately, dictation stinks when it comes to punctuation and using the right word.
Hardest thing about being a writer: For me it’s going through draft after draft after draft. By the end of the process, you really don’t want to read that book again.
Easiest thing about being a writer: Getting to play with storylines and of course, I love the flexibility of my work hours.
Things you never want to run out of: I’m weird. Chocolate, licorice, cottage cheese, coffee/tea.
Things you wish you’d never bought: The latest diet program I fell for on Facebook.
Favorite foods: Pizza, Lasagna, Tiger Roll, Chicken Lo Mein
Things that make you want to gag: Brussel Sprouts, Okra
Favorite music or song: I love New Age piano music. Think George Winston or Kevin Kern. It gives me a calm base to go about my day.
Music that drives you crazy: Heavy metal and rap. I gave birth with rap music playing in the birthing suite once. I don’t know put it on the tv but I distinctly remember someone saying to me “Push” and my reply was “Turn it off!”
Favorite smell: Roast beef cooking in the oven.
Something that makes you hold your nose: I went to college in Greeley, Colorado. The school was upwind of the stockyards. Nothing like rushing to class holding your nose.
Things you always put in your books: A moment between characters that makes me cry.
Things you never put in your books: The “F” word.
Things to say to an author: Where can I leave a review?
Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: You know, I have a great idea for a book. You can write it for me and then I’ll collect the royalties! Okay?
Things that make you happy: Time with my family, reading, singing with my daughter, watching streaming tv with my husband.
Things that drive you crazy: People on the phone in traffic who don’t go when the light turns green. I’m in Houston and boy, howdy. It happens daily.
About Teresa:
Teresa Trent is the author of over 15 books. She started writing cozy mysteries with the Pecan Bayou and Piney Woods Mystery Series. She sets her stories in different geographical areas of Texas and The Swinging Sixties historical series is set just north of Dallas, starting in 1962. You might think with so many books set in the Lone Star state, she was born there, but no. She has lived all over the world, thanks to her father's career in the army. After living in Texas for twenty-five years, she's finally put down roots.
Teresa is a hybrid author, self-publishing early in her career, which led her to traditional publishing with Level Best Books and Camel Press. She is the author of several short stories that have appeared in a host of anthologies. Teresa publishes the blog and podcast, Books to the Ceiling at https://teresatrent.blog where she loves to read the book excerpts of other writers and share in the writing community.
Teresa is a member of Sisters in Crime and lives in Houston, Texas with her husband and son.
Let’s Be Social:
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/teresatrentmysterywriter
TWITTER: https://twitter.com/ttrent_cozymys
BLOG: https://teresatrent.blog/
WEBSITE: http://teresatrent.com
GOODREADS: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5219581.Teresa_Trent
