#ThisorThatThursday Interview with J. A. Dennam

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I’d like to welcome author, J. A. Dennam, to the blog for the Thanksgiving edition of #ThisorThatThursday.

A few of your favorite things: My chickens, motorcycles, and traveling the Midwest.

Things you need to throw out: 9/10 of my belongings. With age I have come to appreciate the minimalist lifestyle.

Things you need for your writing sessions: Coffee, a quiet space (my she-shack in particular) and Internet.

Things that hamper your writing: Rules.

Things you never want to run out of: Ground beef and toilet paper.

Things you wish you’d never bought: Excuses.

Words that describe you: Trusting, creative, tolerant, affectionate, hermit.

Words that describe you, but you wish they didn’t: Procrastinator, obsessive-compulsive.

Favorite foods: Key lime pie, pizza, and cheeseburgers.

Things that make you want to gag: Pineapple on pizza. Who thought that was a good idea?

 Favorite smell: My husband fresh out of the shower.
Something that makes you hold your nose: Rotting corpses.

 Something you’re really good at: Improvising.
Something you’re really bad at: Social media.

Things you always put in your books: Hot sex.
Things you never put in your books: Weak heroes and heroines.

Favorite places you’ve been: South Dakota and Wyoming.
Places you never want to go to again: Big cities and hospitals.

Favorite things to do: Ride motorcycles, get pedicures, and write books that excite me.
Things you’d run through a fire or eat bugs to get out of doing: A full-time desk job…which I have.

Things that make you happy: My family, home, and growing bucket list.
Things that drive you crazy: My family, home, and growing bucket list.

 Most daring thing you’ve ever done: Skydiving.
Something you chickened out from doing: Working on a scissor lift. I have a terrible fear of heights.

The nicest thing a reader said to you: I was late to work because I couldn’t put your book down until 2:00 am.

The craziest thing a reader said to you: I see Danny Bennett in you (heroine in TRUTH AND HUMILITY). I wish!

About J. A.:

J.A. DENNAM resides in a small Kansas town with her husband and children. Creativity is her strong suit having nurtured a career as a western artist and graphic artist.

Storytelling, however, has been a part of her life since childhood. At six years of age, insomnia forced her to endure many long, sleepless nights staring at the ceiling. After confessing her problem to her older sister, the two of them decided to tell each other stories to entice sleep; however, the inevitable snore always tore through her sister’s nose before she could utter the words Once Upon a Time. So the stories began to flow in silence, her imagination taking her to quiet, private places so enthralling, the sudden trick was to stay awake.

Those habits carried on to adulthood until the need to purge her stories demanded she put them in print. Her fascination with romance, fast cars, and adventure films is what structures her novels today.


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