#ThisorThatThursday with Ruth J. Hartman
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I’d like to welcome the fabulous Ruth J. Hartman to the blog for #ThisorThatThursday. If you haven’t already, you need to check out her Facebook page. She has the funniest cat memes.
Things you need for your writing sessions: My recliner out on our enclosed porch, a diet drink, and at least one sleepy cat.
Things that hamper your writing: Any kind of noise: TV, music, cat fights (especially cat fights!)
Words that describe you: Kind, funny, caring, a good listener
Words that describe you, but you wish they didn’t: Clumsy, awkward, overly sensitive, tongue-tied
Favorite foods: Pizza, chocolate, ice cream
Things that make you want to gag: Brussel sprouts, beets, fishy-fish
Favorite music or song: Anything rock from the 80s
Music that drives you crazy: Twangy country
Favorite smell: When my husband makes homemade pizza
Something that makes you hold your nose: We live in the country. There are skunks!
Things you’d walk a mile for: To pet a cat that lived on our our walking trail
Things that make you want to run screaming from the room: Too many people standing too close to me all at once. And yes, I have literally run away!
Things you always put in your books: Cats
Things you never put in your books: Gore, bad language, sex scenes
Things to say to an author: Thank you for writing your book! It made me laugh.
Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: Why in the world do you write stories with cats in them?
Favorite places you’ve been: Wyoming, Alaska, Egypt
Places you never want to go to again: Las Vegas, New Orleans
Favorite things to do: Taking walks with my husband
Things you’d run through a fire or eat bugs to get out of doing: Being in any kind of play or show, or something that makes me feel stupid or embarrassed.
Things that make you happy: Reading a great book, holding sleeping cats, having the windows open so I can hear the birds chatter to each other.
Things that drive you crazy: Standing in lines, people standing too close to me, having to listen to someone else’s conversations (in a store, airport, somebody talking way too loud on their cell phone)
About Ruth:
Ruth J. Hartman spends her days herding cats and her nights spinning mysterious tales. She, her husband, and their cats love to spend time curled up in their recliners watching old Cary Grant movies. Well, the cats sit in the people's recliners. Not that the cats couldn't get their own furniture. They just choose to shed on someone else's.
Ruth, a left-handed, cat-herding, farmhouse-dwelling writer uses her sense of humor as she writes tales of lovable, klutzy women who seem to find trouble without even trying.
Ruth's husband and best friend, Garry, reads her manuscripts, rolls his eyes at her weird story ideas, and loves her despite her insistence all of her books have at least one cat in them. See updates about her cozy mysteries at Ruthjhartman.com.
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