#ThisorThatThursday Author Interview with Veronica Lee
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I’d like to welcome the wonderful Veronica Lee to the blog today for #ThisorThatThursday!
Hardest thing about being a writer: Knowing when my manuscript is ready to submit. I too often jump the gun.
Easiest thing about being a writer: Is there something easy about being a writer? If there is, I can’t think of what it would be. LOL!
Something you’re really good at: I can make really good homemade cheesecakes.
Something you’re really bad at: Making hamburgers and biscuits. They both turn out hard as hockey pucks.
Favorite music or song: I love “Over the Rainbow,” by Judy Garland.
Music that drives you crazy: Songs full of really foul language.
Things you always put in your books: There’s usually a subtle faith-based message in them.
Things you never put in your books: I haven’t written a furry side-kick in any of my stories. But I’d really like to!
Favorite places you’ve been: I visited Krakow, Poland about ten years ago. It was absolutely gorgeous. The whole country was!
Places you never want to go to again: Can’t come up with any place that I really hated.
Favorite books (or genre): Anything Jane Austen related.
Books you wouldn’t buy: Political Thrillers. Just not my cup of tea.
Most daring thing you’ve ever done: I worked as a housekeeper in a nursing home during the pandemic and often had to go into the covid units to clean and help out.
Something you chickened out from doing: Performing Arts Workshop when I was a teen.
The coolest person you’ve ever met: Eva Mozes Kor. She was a Holocaust/Mengele twin survivor who created the CANDLES Museum.
The celebrity who didn’t look like he/she did in pictures/video: I have never met any famous celebrities in person.
The nicest thing a reader said to you: That my book was their favorite.
The craziest thing a reader said to you: One suggested I used AI to write it. I swear, I didn’t!
Some real-life story that made it to one of your books: Well, my book The Keeper of Lost Daughters was partly inspired by how in Poland, Jewish children were left with Christians during the war to save their lives. After the war, the Jewish families would try to reclaim their children only to find that the Christians didn’t want to give them up.
Something in your story that readers think is about you, but it’s not: I don’t think anyone has suggested anything in my book was about me.
My favorite book as a child: When I was little, I had this picture book about a mouse and on every page with the mouse was a little bird. Well, my dad came up a story based solely on the bird, calling it “Little Birdy Buddy.” Over time the story evolved. His storytelling was so enthralling that others would listen to him tell it too. Unfortunately, the book fell apart and I have no memory of what the story actually was.
A book I’ve read more than once: Pride and Prejudice.
Your favorite movie as a child: The Wizard of Oz.
A TV show or movie that kept you awake at night as a kid (or as an adult): Braveheart. When I was a kid, my dad had bought the VHS and was watching it, and I saw the scene where William Wallace is being tortured/executed. I was sick to my stomach for days. Probably didn’t sleep at night after watching it.
About Veronica:
Veronica Leigh has been published in numerous publications, such as Saturday Evening Post, Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine, Black Cat Mystery Magazine, and The People's Friend. She recently published her first novel, The Keeper of Lost Daughters. She aspires to be the Jane Austen of her generation and she makes her home in Indiana.
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