#WriterWednesday Author Interview with Randi-Lee Bowslaugh
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I’d like to welcome Randi-Lee Bowslaugh to the blog for #WriterWednesday!
Hardest thing about being a writer: Promoting the book.
Easiest thing about being a writer: Being creative and getting the idea written.
Things you need for your writing sessions: Noise-cancelling headphones and a great playlist.
Things that hamper your writing: Mess around me.
Words that describe you: Creative, eccentric, smart, honest
Words that describe you, but you wish they didn’t: Annoying, perfectionist, silly, blunt
Last best thing you ate: Gluten-free Skor butter tart from Bomb Bish
Last thing you regret eating: Chicken and frozen diced cauliflower that I made and really overspiced
Favorite music or song: Punk Rock and Country
Music that drives you crazy: Most pop songs
The last thing you ordered online: Invisible fence dog collar (to keep my pup out of my garden).
The last thing you regret buying: Slime for my kid - it stuck to the ceiling, and the purple spot is still there.
Things to say to an author: Keep going, write true to who you are, and you will find your audience.
Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: Your books are boring cliches.
Favorite places you’ve been: Cuba, Parc Omega, Ireland, Salem
Places you never want to go to again: The hospital.
Most daring thing you’ve ever done: High ropes course by Niagara Falls with a 40-foot drop at the end.
Something you chickened out from doing: Skydiving when my dad asked me to go with him.
The first 8-track, record, cassette, or CD you ever bought: Garth Brooks’ first album on cassette.
A type of music that’s not your cup of tea: Screamo (but my child loves it).
My favorite book as a child: The Monster at the End of the Book - featuring Grover by Jon Stone
A book I’ve read more than once: Acheron by Sherilyn McQueen
Your favorite movie as a child: The Labyrinth (and it still is)
A TV show or movie that kept you awake at night as a kid (or as an adult): “The People Under the Stairs”
About Randi-Lee:
Randi-Lee is an outspoken advocate for mental health, a YouTube host of the Write or Die Show and a public speaker. She is the mother of two grown children, a grandmother, and a wife. She has dealt with depression for more than half her life, and was diagnosed late in life with Autism and CPTSD. She wants others to have the tools they need to keep going.
Randi-Lee graduated from Niagara College for Community and Justice Services and completed a placement at a Drug and Alcohol Recovery House. She worked in social services for six years before becoming an author and focusing on speaking out.
She has represented Team Canada twice in kickboxing, earning a silver medal in 2016. She took a year's break after having cancer. She returned as a kickboxing coach, personal trainer and yoga instructor until chronic pain made it difficult. She continues to fight to regain her life.
Her motto is never to let “too tired keep her down” and wants others to know they are not alone.
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https://substack.com/@randileebowslaugh
https://www.rbwriting.ca
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