#ThisorThatThursday Author Interview with Trevor Harrison
/Trevor Harrison is my guest today for #ThisorThatThursday.
Things you need for your writing sessions: time alone
Things that hamper your writing: distractions
Words that describe you: thoughtful, rational
Words that describe you, but you wish they didn’t: arrogant (sometimes)
Something you’re really good at: card games
Something you’re really bad at: electronic games
Favorite music or song: Wide ranging – classic rock, blues, jazz, some country
Music that drives you crazy: hip-hop
Things to say to an author: Focus on the details
Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: This scene/person just doesn’t seem believable.
Favorite places you’ve been: Greece
Places you never want to go to again: not easy to say; have liked pretty much everywhere I’ve been
Favorite books (or genre): politics, history. poetry
Books you wouldn’t buy: Harlequin novels
Besides writing, what’s the most creative thing you’ve done: wrote the music for one of my poems and sang it
A project that didn’t quite turn out the way you planned it: wrote a journal article only to have the journal fold after the paper was accepted
Some real-life story that made it to one of your books: being robbed
Something in your story that readers think is about you, but it’s not: being in a fight
About Trevor
Trevor W. Harrison is a retired political sociologist at the University of Lethbridge. He is the author, co-author, or co-editor of fourteen previous books, including three books of poetry. His recent and fifteenth book, Safarnameh: A Traveller’s Journey Along the Hippie Trail, is both a personal memoir and a critical examination of the circumstances around which so many westerners made the overland trip to India during the 1960s and 1970s.
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