#ThisorThatThursday Author Interview with Kelly Oliver

I’d like to welcome the fabulous Kelly Oliver to the blog for #ThisorThatThursday!

A few of your favorite things: Tea and Cats

Things you need to throw out: Old Tea and old cat toys

Things you need for your writing sessions: Tea and Cats

Things that hamper your writing: Cats and Cat Videos

Things you love about writing: Losing myself

Things you hate about writing: I’m lost without it

Hardest thing about being a writer: Writing

Easiest thing about being a writer: Writing

Things you never want to run out of: Good Matcha

Things you wish you’d never bought: Bad Matcha

Words that describe you: Determined, loyal, workaholic

Words that describe you, but you wish they didn’t: impatient, compulsive, workaholic

Favorite foods: Tacos

Things that make you want to gag: Oysters

Favorite music or song: Jazz

Music that drives you crazy: Heavy Metal

Favorite beverage: Good Matcha

Something that gives you a sour face: Bad Matcha

Favorite smell: Creek running through a Pine Forest on a summer’s day

Something that makes you hold your nose: That one block in New York City last month

Something you’re really good at: Eating

Something you’re really bad at: Sleeping

Things you always put in your books: Humor

Things you never put in your books: Graphic sex or violence

Favorite places you’ve been: Banff Canada

Places you never want to go to again: The Dentist

Favorite things to do: X-country ski, hike

Things you’d run through a fire or eat bugs to get out of doing: sky-dive, flying on a space shuttle

Things that make you happy: Cats

Things that drive you crazy: Cats

Best thing you’ve ever done: Teaching and mentoring

Biggest mistake: Not writing fiction earlier

The nicest thing a reader said to you: “You’re crazy brilliant.”

The craziest thing a reader said to you: “This book is the Anti-Christ.”

About Kelly:

Kelly Oliver is the award-winning and bestselling author of three mystery series: the seven-book suspense Jessica James Mysteries; the three-book middle grade Pet Detective Mysteries; and the five-book historical cozy Fiona Figg Mysteries. The second Fiona Figg mystery, High Treason at the Grand Hotel was a Mystery Tribune pick for best mystery of January 2021.

Kelly’s books have won the Indie Publishers award for Best Mystery/Thriller, Silver Falchion award for Best Suspense, and the Mischief and Mayhem award for Best Mystery, among others.

Kelly is currently Vice President of Sisters in Crime.

When she’s not writing novels, Kelly is a Distinguished Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. To learn more about Kelly and her books, go to www.kellyoliverbooks.com.

Let’s Be Social:

Author Website: https://www.kellyoliverbooks.com

Kelly Oliver Bookstore: https://kellyoliver.store/

Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/Kelly-Oliver/e/B001HN3HCM/

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Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/15643052.Kelly_Oliver