#ThisorThatThursday Author Interview with Leslie Karst
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I’d like to welcome the fabulous Leslie Karst to the blog for #ThisorThatThursday!
A few of your favorite things: My book collection, my grandmother’s cast-iron skillet, my mint green Bianchi road bike
Things you need to throw out: Numerous T-shirts I no longer wear, but which have tremendous sentimental value
Things you need for your writing sessions: Silence and warmth. Coffee helps, too.
Things that hamper your writing: Music, people talking
Hardest thing about being a writer: Marketing and publicity
Easiest thing about being a writer: Writing dialogue—I love it!
Favorite foods: Triple-cream brie, steak Bèarnaise, crème brûlée (you sense a trend here?)
Things that make you want to gag: Kidneys. I’ll eat pretty much anything else!
Favorite beverage: A floral, perfumy gin served up, with a twist
Something that gives you a sour face: Not much; I’m pretty pucker-proof!
Favorite smell: Rain on hot pavement
Something that makes you hold your nose: Metro stations in Paris which men use as their personal pissoires (funny how close these two are, yet so very far away!)
Something you’re really good at: Perseverance and follow-through
Something you’re really bad at: Carpentry
Things you always put in your books: Food and cooking, fast-paced dialogue, a strong sense of place
Things you never put in your books: car chases (though I did once have a short chase scene involving a bicycle), sex scenes, ghosts
Things to say to an author: I bought your last book, loved it, and posted a review!
Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: Can you loan me a copy of your book to read, so I don’t have to buy it?
Favorite things to do: Attending mystery writers conventions, being invited to dinner parties where someone else cooks, lying in bed and reading before it’s time to go to sleep
Things you’d run through a fire or eat bugs to get out of doing: Moving heavy furniture
The coolest person you’ve ever met: Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The celebrity who didn’t look like he/she did in pictures/video: Lou Reed (whom I once saw at an LA sushi restaurant) looked even more haggard in real life than he did in photos
About Leslie:
Leslie Karst is the author of the Lefty Award-nominated Sally Solari mystery series and JUSTICE IS SERVED: A TALE OF SCALLOPS, THE LAW, AND COOKING FOR RBG. After years waiting tables and singing in a new wave rock band, she decided she was ready for a “real” job and ended up at Stanford Law School, then returned to school to study culinary arts. Now retired from the law, Leslie spends her time cooking, cycling, gardening, observing cocktail hour promptly at five o’clock, and of course writing. She and her wife and their Jack Russell mix split their time between Santa Cruz, California and Hilo, Hawai‘i.
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