I’d like to welcome Bjorn Leesson to the blog for #WriterWednesday.

Favorite thing to do when you have free time: I guess that depends on the mood. I like to just research various interesting things, wander around in the woods for no real reason, or just engage in hypothetical discussions with my wife. I’m an exciting guy.

The thing you’ll always move to the bottom of your to do list: I’m not a big fan of shopping. I really don’t like shopping; too many people around me, there apparently are rules when you shop, and it always ends with spending more money than it was worth.

Hardest thing about being a writer: Reminding yourself that no one will ever be as invested in your story as you are as the author. Sure, you will have fans, even some diehard fans, but no one will ever love it more than you.

Easiest thing about being a writer: Being reminded by others that no one will ever be as invested in your story as you are as the author.

Something you wish you could do: At this age, REMEMBER. . . anything. Anything at all. When I was young, I used to believe all my elders were exaggerating about forgetting stuff, but here I am, and it’s too late to listen now.

Something you wish you’d never learned to do: It doesn’t matter. I can just say I don’t remember how, and odds are, I’m not lying about it.

Things you will run to the store for at midnight: Under the right conditions, PIZZA. Despite my aversion to shopping, I would for pizza, even at midnight. And now that I live twenty minutes in any direction from a town, driving there is the necessity, midnight or any other time. The only real drawback to living the county – no more pizza delivery.

Things you never put on your shopping list: Tofu, cauliflower, sushi, dill anything, or sour cream. These things are all evil, meant to disfigure and enslave humanity, and I will have no part of it. Even my bad memory will not let me forget how bad these things are.

Favorite places you’ve been: Away from home: Wales, England, Scotland, and Cornwall. Wonderful places! The scenery, the history, it’s all just awesome!

Places you never want to go to again: There is a really old BP gas station on the way to Florida from South Carolina along I95 (for the safety of everyone, I will not be more specific than that). You will know when you enter the bathroom at this horrid, evil place. You will feel the heaviness in the air of the alternate universe that exists in there, somewhere impossible in the normal universe.

People you’d like to invite to dinner (living): Jeremy Clarkson and Robert Duvall. We’d have pizza. I’d drive to the store at midnight to go get it for us.

People you’d cancel dinner on: Probably just about any politician. I’d cancel my own attendance, but I would leave them with tofu, cauliflower, sushi, dill anything, and sour cream with directions to the above-mentioned bathroom at the BP on I95.

Favorite things to do: Read about new interesting things, observe nature or settings around me, or just discuss the mysteries of the universe with an interested friend. The simple things are most likely going to be my favorite.

Things you’d run through a fire or eat bugs to get out of doing: I would have to place “running through fire” and “eating bugs” pretty high on that list, but that answer seems a little like cheating. So, alternatively, I would have to say I, like virtually everyone, am not a big fan of filing income taxes. I could go on for days about what it does for my blood pressure, but just suffice it to say, thankfully, the lovely Mrs. Leesson files for us.

Best thing you’ve ever done: I haven’t done it yet. It’s coming, and I don’t know when, but it’s coming. It’s going to be awesome, and I will likely write it into one of my books.

Biggest mistake: Stopping at that BP bathroom on I95. I don’t think an exorcist can fix that place, and that’s why I am sending the politicians there.

Most daring thing you’ve ever done: I guess it is kind of a tie between mustering up the courage to try and publish my first book and driving stock cars at the local racetrack many many years ago. Both took some courage, and the risk was mental trauma from one, and physical trauma from the other. But both are ridiculously expensive.

Something you chickened out from doing: Skydiving with an adrenaline-junkie friend on mine. I am not particularly scared of heights like some people are, but jumping out of an airplane that is not in immediate danger of crashing with only basically a bed sheet popping out of a backpack to slow the fall is just kind of stupid if you ask me.

The most exciting thing about your writing life: Getting a new review. It doesn’t even have to be a five-star glowing praise of a review (although those are always very nice), just an honest review from a real person who actually read the book.

The one thing you wish you could do over in your writing life: Nothing. Everything happens for a reason, even if we don’t like it. It’s how we learn, and there will likely be a chance to do it again rather than over, and that is the time to do it differently than the first.

About Bjorn:

Bjorn Leesson has always been fascinated with many topics to include history, the supernatural, and writing. These interests combined led to the Outside the Thalsparr series, with the first book in the series, "Runes of the Dokkrsdottir." Bjorn was not formally trained as a writer and has worked in the industrial manufacturing field his entire life.

Bjorn was born in the Lowcountry of South Carolina a long, long time ago. He has worked in manufacturing all my working life to feed himself but has nourished his mind with the study of many topics; history of all eras, the paranormal, astronomy, writing of different types, photography, archeology, genealogy, vexillology, some other -ologies, even stock car racing for a couple of years, and on and on. Bjorn finds just about everything fascinating in some way and has been accused of being too easily entertained. A blend of a few of his interests led to the creation of the Thalsparr Universe. The first six installments of the series are out now with more installments and spin-offs coming soon. Bjorn currently lives in the Midlands of South Carolina with his wife of 25 years on their hobby farm.

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