#ThisorThatThursday Author Interview with Athina Paris

I’d like to welcome author Athina Paris back to the blog for #ThisorThatThursday!

Favorite thing to do when you have free time: I enjoy the slowness and creativity of journaling.

The thing you’ll always move to the bottom of your to do list: I dislike housework, it cuts into my writing time.

Things you need when you’re in your writing cave: Hot coffee or tea, and cookies.

Things that distract you from writing: Too much noise, and occasionally, my cat.

Hardest thing about being a writer: Finding the time when inspiration strikes, and you’re away from your desk.

Easiest thing about being a writer: It’s a comfortable endeavor: inside, at your desk, dress warm or cool depending on season, have something to drink.

Things you will run to the store for at midnight: Definitely for jellybeans.

Things you never put on your shopping list: Meat and bacon, I hardly ever eat them.

The coolest thing you’ve bought online: I bought a small label printer, which I have given to my daughter-in-law as she just had a baby and needs to label all kinds of things.

Things that make you want to gag: Anything to do with animals’ internal organs.

Something you’re really good at: Taking knots out of things.

Something you’re really bad at: Saying no to chocolate.

Something you wanted to be when you were a kid: I wanted to be an actress when I was young. Because I loved the idea of being multiple people. Now, I write about multiple people.

Something you wish you could do: I wish I could swim.

Things to say to an author: Well, done, you finished writing your book.

Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: I have an idea for a book, I’ll share it with you, you write it, and we’ll share the profits fifty-fifty.

Favorite places you’ve been: On the ocean, on a cruise ship, around the Caribbean.

People you’d like to invite to dinner (living): Margaret Atwood, Joyce Maynard, and Brandon Sanderson.

Favorite things to do: Reading, journaling, and revamping old furniture.

Most daring thing you’ve ever done: Travel to the United States on my own.

The nicest thing a reader said to you: I loved your book, your characters were so interesting and relatable.

The most exciting thing about your writing life: I get to create new lives, and new worlds.

About Athina:

Athina Paris was born and went to school in Mozambique. Living her formative years in the confines of strict convents and boarding schools, she escaped by dreaming of faraway exotic places, and it created a deep curiosity about life and people. Feeling the need to liberate her inquisitive mind from conformist restraints, she took refuge in libraries and bookstores, leading to an avid interest in reading, storytelling, and a lifelong obsession with the written word and books.

At age fourteen, she joined her family: father, mother, and a younger brother in South Africa, where she continued her schooling. Now able to read English, she quickly went through most of the classics, discovered ancient civilizations, and became fascinated with various mythologies; a love she has kept to this day. After her father left the family, she went to college to study Interior Design, but the pull of her true talent took her into Creative Writing. She followed that with Scriptwriting.

Athina has recently vacated the position of high school teacher, where she polished her skills to concentrate on her professional goals of writing, editing and proofreading. She has joined RockHill Publishing LLC as Editor-in-Chief.

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