#ThisorThatThursday Author Interview with Kerry Peresta
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I’d like to welcome author, Kerry Peresta, to the blog for #ThisorThatThursday!
A few of your favorite things: My three cats, the sun faces I collect and hang on an exterior wall, my long view of the Lowcountry marsh off my deck. Good red wine. Jazz. Oh, I guess I should add my husband.
Things you love about writing: I lose myself and time can pass very quickly. How a scene develops under my hands. Editing after the first draft is done, which is much like fine-tuning a piece of sculpture by scraping away the bits that don’t work and polishing the bits that do.
Hardest thing about being a writer: Promotion. Who has time to set this stuff up? But we have to.
Things you never want to run out of: Easy…coffee and wine.
Words that describe you: Optimistic. Stylish. Fun. Nurturing.
Words that describe you, but you wish they didn’t: Decisive. Blunt. Opinionated. (These traits do not work in my favor sometimes…)
Favorite foods: Filet, quiche, asparagus
Things that make you want to gag: Onions. Liver. FISH, and anything else that comes from a body of water. Yuck.
Something you’re really good at: Interior decorating. Loving my grandkids. Cardio & weight training. Makeup.
Things that make you want to run screaming from the room: Arrogant, condescending people.
Things you always put in your books: A pet. Dog or cat.
Things you never put in your books: Sex scene.
Things to say to an author: I could not put down your book!!
People you’d like to invite to dinner (living): Jeff Goldblum. Vincent D’Onofrio. Stephen Furtick. Angie Harmon, Louise Jensen. (This list changes often.)
Proudest moment: Those moments I see my grown kids fulfill their unique, wonderful purpose in life. For instance, one of my kids was destined to sing. When she steps onto a stage, I cry every time.
About Kerry:
Kerry’s publishing credits include a popular newspaper column, “The Lighter Side,” (2009—2011), and magazine articles in Local Life Magazine, The Bluffton Breeze, Lady Lowcountry, and Island Events Magazine. She is the author of two novels, The Hunting, women’s fiction, and The Deadening, psychological suspense. She spent twenty-five years in advertising as an account manager, creative director, and copywriter. She is past chapter president of the Maryland Writers’ Association and a current member and presenter of Hilton Head Island Writers’ Network, and the Sisters in Crime organization. Recently, she worked as editor and contributor for Island Communications, a local publishing house. Kerry and her husband moved to Hilton Head five years ago. She is the mother of four adult children, and has a bunch of wonderful grandkids who keep life interesting and remind her what life is all about.
Let’s Be Social:
The Deadening
Olivia Callahan’s quiet, orderly life is shattered when she regains consciousness in a hospital and discovers she is paralyzed and cannot remember a thing. The fragmented voices she hears around her help her piece together that an apparent assault landed her in the hospital, but nobody knows who attacked her, or why. After a chilling struggle to survive, she awakens from a coma unable to remember what happened to her or anything at all, except she has been told she is an entirely different person. Or is she?
Now, in spite of a brain injury that has rewired her personality, Olivia is on a mission to reclaim her life. As clarity surfaces and she starts to understand who she was, she is shocked. Had she really been that person? And if so, does she want her old life back?
