#WriterWednesday Author Interview with Nikki Knight
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I’d like to welcome the multi-talented Nikki Knight to the blog for #WriterWednesday.
Hardest thing about being a writer: Rejection
Easiest thing about being a writer: Taking edits and notes – after a lifetime in a newsroom, I’m not hung up on my lovely words!
Things you need for your writing sessions: Five minutes and a flat surface for the laptop.
Things that hamper your writing: Lack of sleep – I work morning drive on the weekend, and I can’t get anything done on Mondays!
Words that describe you: Determined, creative, loyal, family-oriented. (Family of blood, work, and affection!)
Words that describe you, but you wish they didn’t: Easily distracted, hot-tempered, oversensitive.
Something you’re really good at: “The Dance,” anchoring breaking news.
Something you’re really bad at: Meeting people in person. I’m painfully shy. (I know it doesn’t make sense!)
Last best thing you ate: Chocolate cake on date night…I took the best bite and my husband didn’t mind!
Last thing you regret eating: Leftover canned soup. But I hate wasting food!
Favorite music or song: K-Pop Demon Hunters soundtrack (today!)
Music that drives you crazy: Pop stars trying to be country because it’s hot right now.
The last thing you ordered online: Fun press-on nails.
The last thing you regret buying: Blue eyeliner that looked cobalt and turned out to be turquoise. (Cobalt eyeliner and mascara is my signature thing.)
Things you always put in your books: Pets with personality –and a role in solving the case!
Things you never put in your books: Children in danger.
Things to say to an author: I love your work.
Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: Gee, it looks so easy!
The funniest thing to happen to you: Walking in Manhattan’s Battery Park with a friend, we turned a corner and there she was. And I said, in the hill country accent I’d spent the last ten years working to lose: “Oh mah Gawd, it’s the Statue a’ Liberty!” My buddy just walked away like he didn’t know me
The most embarrassing thing to happen to you: That time my dress fell off onstage during a college theatre production. I was a costume assistant, and I’d checked everyone’s outfits but my own. Good thing I was wearing dance underpinnings.
Some real-life story that made it to one of your books: We were at the Aquarium with our son, watching the beluga whale when there was suddenly a wave of liquid under it…and my son said, at full volume: “Look, Ma, the whale’s peeing!” It’s in the opening scene in MURDER ON THE SEA OTTER EXPRESS.
Something in your story that readers think is about you, but it’s not: Unlike Grace, I don’t poison people…though I’ve thought about it occasionally!
My favorite book as a child: ANNE OF GREEN GABLES.
A book I’ve read more than once: STRONG POISON, Dorothy Sayers.
About Nikki:
Nikki Knight is the pen name of Kathleen Marple Kalb, an anchor/author/mom…not in that order. The Agatha-nominated author of short stories and more than a dozen novels, she’s also a longtime weekend anchor at New York’s 1010 WINS Radio. Her book series include the Grace the Hit Mom, Vermont radio – and under her own name, Ella Shane and Old Stuff Mysteries. Active in writers’ groups, she’s currently a Marketing and Communications Liaison on the National Board of Sisters in Crime, and a past VP of the Short Mystery Fiction Society and NY/Tri-State SinC. She and her family live in a Connecticut house owned by a large calico cat.
Let’s Be Social:
Website: https://kathleenmarplekalb.com/
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