#WriterWednesday Author Interview with Devon Delaney
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Devon Delaney is my special guest today for #WriterWednesday!
Hardest thing about being a writer: Finding daily solid blocks of time may be the hardest for. I am involved with lots of activities and have many interests and writing is often wedged in between watercolor painting class and tennis clinics.
Easiest thing about being a writer: I write what I know so I have no shortage of story ideas revolving around cooking, recipes, and competition.
Things you need for your writing sessions: To be a productive writer I need a long walk with my dog, a seat on my couch under the picture window and a cup of honeyed green tea. Maybe some quiet, too.
Things that hamper your writing: The modern world of distracting internet, my iPhone, incoming texts, and my uber-busy imagination are the distractions that hamper my writing when I don’t practice restraint.
Words that describe you: I’ve been described as athletic, determined, inspiring, strong-willed, patient, energetic, artistic, goofy, funny, eager to improve.
Words that describe you, but you wish they didn’t: I’ve also been described as anxious, goofy to a fault (my own interpretation) and slightly obsessive.
Something you’re really good at: I’m successful at competing in and winning recipes contests.
Something you’re really bad at: I’m not so good at saying no.
Last best thing you ate: We had a dinner of slow cooked short ribs and kimchi fried rice that was out of this world.
Last thing you regret eating: Fresh spinach I didn’t wash well and the leaves were so gritty I gagged.
The last thing you ordered online: A snuggly winter hat.
The last thing you regret buying: Winter boots that were only water resistant not waterproof and what good is that in winter!
Things you’d walk a mile for: Authentic Swiss milk chocolate, my grandchildren, a new set of spa-grade bath towels, my dog (not nec in that order)
Things that make you want to run screaming from the room: Rhubarb, the smell of burnt bacon, my husband’s discarded dirty socks on the floor
Favorite places you’ve been: Positano, Italy. Missoula, MT, Charleston, SC and London
Places you never want to go to again: Costco, but I’m going next week
The coolest person you’ve ever met: John Travolta
The celebrity who didn’t look like he/she did in pictures/video: Kelly Ripa, she’s so much prettier in person which is amazing
The nicest thing a reader said to you: “I have been reading this series for a very long time and never must not. Between the mystery and recipes, what not to love? The author does such a great job but as soon as you turn that last page, you’re looking to see when the next entry will be published. It’s that good!” (thank you, reviewer!)
The craziest thing a reader said to you: Can you send me all your recipes?
My favorite book as a child: Misty of Chincoteague
A book I’ve read more than once: Agents of Change, Winning Ugly
Your favorite movie as a child: Sound of Music
A TV show or movie that kept you awake at night as a kid (or as an adult): Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone
About Devon:
Devon Delaney is the author of the cooking competition cozy murder mystery series. She is also a wife, mother of three, grandma to four, accomplished cooking contester, sometime empty nester, and lifelong resident of the Northeast. She has been handsomely rewarded for her recipe innovation over the last twenty-plus years, including a full kitchen of major appliances, top cash prizes, and four trips to Disney World She has also won the Grand Prize in a national writing contest for her “foodie” poem, “Ode to Pork Passion.” She began writing cozy mysteries when she relocated to Connecticut and saw the opportunity for a career change from teaching Lego Robotics and computer education.
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