#WriterWednesday Interview with Author Tosca Lee

I’d like to welcome author Tosca Lee to the blog and congratulate her on all her recent award nominations!

A few of your favorite things: Movie buttered popcorn, bacon, watching people who are excellent at what they do, movies, and traveling!

Things you need to throw out: Anything I possibly can. I’m pretty much the opposite of a hoarder.

Things you need for your writing sessions: Beverage and silence.

Things that hamper your writing: Noise.

Things you love about writing: Rewriting and editing.

Things you hate about writing: First drafts.

Hardest thing about being a writer: Writing.

Easiest thing about being a writer: Hugging readers.

Hardest thing about being a writer during a pandemic: Not being able to hug readers.

Something you’re really good at: Organizing closets and drawers.

Something you’re really bad at: Drawing.

Last best thing you ate: French fries dipped in honey mustard.

Last thing you regret eating: I regret eating nothing.

The last thing you ordered online: A book.

The last thing you regret buying: Every single thing I’ve had to cart off to a UPS Store to return.

Things you’d walk a mile for: Movie buttered popcorn, to spend time with my family and friends.

Things that make you want to run screaming from the room: Talking on the phone.

Things to say to an author: “Your stories sound fascinating. Here, take my money.”

Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: “I’d write a book if I had enough free time.”

Favorite places you’ve been: Anywhere with my hubby.

Places you never want to go to again: The hospital.

Favorite things to do: Travel, watch TV, laugh with my kids, sleep in.

Things you’d run through a fire or eat bugs to get out of doing: Writing a synopsis.

Most daring thing you’ve ever done: Entered a beauty pageant.

Something you chickened out from doing: Riding the Hulk roller coaster at Universal Studios.

The nicest thing a reader said to you: “This book changed my life.”

The craziest thing a reader said to you: “I know you don’t know me, but we’re supposed to be together.”

About Tosca:

Tosca Lee is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of eleven novels including A SINGLE LIGHT, THE LINE BETWEEN, THE PROGENY, THE LEGEND OF SHEBA, ISCARIOT, and the Books of Mortals series with New York Times bestseller Ted Dekker. Her work has been translated into seventeen languages and been optioned for TV and film. A notorious night-owl, she loves movies, playing football with her kids, and sending cheesy texts to her husband. 

You can find Tosca on social media or hanging around the snack table. To learn more, please visit toscalee.com.

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#WriterWednesday Interview with Kathrin Hutson

I’d like to welcome author Kathrin Hutson to the blog for #WriterWednesday.

Things you need for your writing sessions: My 48-ounce water bottle, headphones playing genre-appropriate music without lyrics, a snack (usually a protein bar), and complete isolation in a room with a closed door.

Things that hamper your writing: Outside noise I can hear over my headphones, an empty water bottle, my kid knocking on my door (my husband’s a stay-at-home-dad, so she at least has supervision LOL), and the internet in general.

Things you love about writing: It comes so easily and naturally to me. Building characters. Getting into the flow. Supporting my family full-time on writing. The literal act of writing.

Things you hate about writing: Research. Something you wish you could do: Take care of more than one plant without somehow letting everything die.

Something you wish you’d never learned to do: Procrastinate.

Things you’d walk a mile for: A library, live music, the best sushi in the world.

Things that make you want to run screaming from the room: Loud chewing and being interrupted when I’m talking (I always forget what I was saying…).

Things you always put in your books: Darkness LOL. And death, humor, romantic streaks, violence, some kind of magic/ability, not-quite-happy-any-way-you-put-it endings.

Things you never put in your books: HEA. Characters losing themselves to love triangles. Romantic love being literally more important than everything else. Hate.

Things to say to an author: “I can’t wait to read your next book.” “I read [insert series name] last week and loved it!” “I’ve been listening to all your interviews.” “Found my new favorite author. It’s you!”

Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: “I don’t really read.” “I just hope you care about spending as much time with your family as you do writing books.” (Yeah… << That one was a doozey.)

Favorite places you’ve been: Mexico. San Francisco. Nevada City, CA. Any aspen grove in the spring and summer.

Places you never want to go to again: Las Vegas, New Mexico (I know, not Nevada). Kanorado, KA.

Favorite things to do: Reading. Sit around outside during the summer and chat with friends. Dancing. Eating sushi. Discovering amazing whiskey. Date night at gourmet restaurants.

Things you’d run through a fire or eat bugs to get out of doing: Pull weeds LOL. Lie about my beliefs. Scrub shower tiles. Drive during rush-hour (haven’t done that in years).

Things that make you happy: Sunshine and breeze. The perfect cup of tea. Snuggling my kid. The smell of rain. A clean house. Playing music with other people. Anyone who laughs at my awful jokes.

Things that drive you crazy: People not using a turn signal. Online deliveries that don’t arrive when they’re scheduled LOL. My two 80-pound dogs literally barking at leaves blowing down the street. Folding laundry and finding everyone else’s clothes scattered all over the place the next morning.

Best thing you’ve ever done: Make the decision to forgive myself and move forward.

Biggest mistake: Taking as long as I did to forgive myself and not writing anything for four years. Then again, I wouldn’t really change anything, because it’s all brought me to where I am right now. So that might not even be a mistake.

Most daring thing you’ve ever done: Move across the country with my husband (not yet married, then) after we’d known each other for four months—no plan, no jobs, everything we owned packed into a Nissan Altima.

Something you chickened out from doing: I’m more the kind of person who knows my limits and says “absolutely not” the first time around… so I’m never really in a chickening-out position in the first place. I did one time agree to go skydiving with a friend. That definitely never happened.

The nicest thing a reader said to you: “Thank you for writing what you write. The world needs to hear it the exact way you’re saying it.”

The craziest thing a reader said to you: “I’m so disgusted, and I’ve lost all the escape I read fiction to find in the first place.”

About Kathrin:

International Bestselling Author Kathrin Hutson has been writing Dark Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and LGBTQ Speculative Fiction since 2000. With her wildly messed-up heroes, excruciating circumstances, impossible decisions, and Happily Never Afters, she’s a firm believer in piling on the intense action, showing a little character skin, and never skimping on violent means to bloody ends. In addition to writing her own dark and enchanting fiction, Kathrin spends the other half of her time as a fiction ghostwriter of almost every genre, as Fiction Co-Editor for Burlington’s Mud Season Review, and as Director of TopShelf Interviews for TopShelf Magazine.

She is a member of both the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and the Horror Writers Association. Kathrin lives in Colorado with her husband, their young daughter, and their two dogs, Sadie and Brucewillis. For updates on new releases, exclusive deals, and dark surprises you won’t find anywhere else, sign up to Kathrin’s newsletter at kathrinhutsonfiction.com/subscribe.

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#WriterWednesday Interview with Author Liz Butcher

I’d like to welcome author, Liz Butcher to the blog for #WriterWednesday. Liz hails from Australia.

A few of your favorite things: I love rainy days, music and wine.
Things you need to throw out: An old iPod I’ve had sitting in a draw for the past decade, and some old clothes that I need to accept I’ll never fit into again!

Things you need for your writing sessions: My laptop, my headphones, a bottle of water and oils burning in my diffuser.
Things that hamper your writing: External noise, procrastination, my phone.

Things you love about writing: I love creating people and places and losing myself in their lives. It’s total escapism. I love when you get in the zone and hit that stride where all the words just flow out of you.
Things you hate about writing: When your characters won’t play nice and something about your plot isn’t working.

Hardest thing about being a writer: Avoiding procrastination. I have to work at this every damn day.
Easiest thing about being a writer: You can do it anywhere and everywhere.

Things you never want to run out of: Time.
Things you wish you’d never bought: Any number of clothing items I’ve bought online that looked amazing in the picture and totally didn’t once it was on. I’ll learn, one of these days… (maybe!)

Words that describe you: Intelligent, insightful, creative, optimistic, curious.
Words that describe you, but you wish they didn’t: Fickle, pensive, aloof, self-conscious.

Favorite music or song: I have a very eclectic taste in music, but I’m a metal head at heart.
Music that drives you crazy: Country music *shudders*

Favorite beverage: I actually love water! I drink a lot of it. Probably to counteract my love of coffee and wine… love kombucha too! 
Something that gives you a sour face: Cherry cola/Dr Pepper. My husband loves it and I can’t understand why. Also stout.

Last best thing you ate: A crazy indulgent caramel cupcake for my birthday over the weekend.
Last thing you regret eating: A crazy indulgent caramel cupcake for my birthday over the weekend. Ha ha!

Things you’d walk a mile for: My family. An amazing view.
Things that make you want to run screaming from the room: Indecision and mess—both do my head in!

Things to say to an author: “Of course I’d love to leave a review!”
Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: “What do you actually do?” or “Writing books for a living sounds easy!”

Best thing you’ve ever done: Five rounds of IVF to finally become a mother.
Biggest mistake: Giving someone more chances than they deserved.

About Liz:

Liz Butcher resides in Australia, with her husband, daughter, and their two cats. She’s a self-confessed nerd with a BA in psychology and an insatiable fascination for learning. Liz has published a number of short stories in anthologies and has released her own collection, After Dark, in 2018. Her debut novel, Fates’ Fury released September 2019, soon followed with LeRoux Manor in September 2020.

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Website: https://lizbutcherauthor.wixsite.com/lizbutcher
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