#WriterWednesday Interview with Linda Lovely
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I’d like to welcome author Linda Lovely to the blog for #WriterWednesday!
A few of your favorite things: Sweets, mystery/thriller novels, classic movies.
Things you need to throw out: Worn-out socks and undies. Out-of-date cosmetics and pills.
Things you need for your writing sessions: Quiet and a comfortable chair.
Things that hamper your writing: Noise & @#$#@ software updates.
Things you love about writing: Killing off characters who get away with bullying in real life.
Things you hate about writing: When the right word escapes me. Drives me nuts.
Hardest thing about being a writer: The need to constantly promote your books.
Easiest thing about being a writer: When you’re in your characters’ heads and the scenes practically write themselves.
Things you never want to run out of: Toilet paper! Never would have answered it this way before the pandemic shortages.
Things you wish you’d never bought: A battery-pack edge trimmer. Too heavy!
Words that describe you: Stubborn. Determined. Optimistic.
Words that describe you, but you wish they didn’t: Overweight. Over the hill—not saying which hill.
Favorite foods: Blueberry pie (my fave at the moment because I’m picking blueberries in our backyard). Wintertime I’d say vegetable soup or chili & any dessert with chocolate.
Things that make you want to gag: Vegetables cooked into mush with a side of grease. Raw oysters.
The last thing you ordered online: an ebook. Okay, multiple ebooks. (I buy my paperbacks from indie bookstores.)
The last thing you regret buying: Spoiled ground turkey. Thought the smell was off, but invested the time to make meatloaf, then one taste and I threw it all away.
Things you’d walk a mile for: Exercise. My husband and I have a six-mile route we walk together four days a week.
Things that make you want to run screaming from the room: Pontificating, condescending zealots (of any stripe).
Things you always put in your books: sides of humor and romance
Things you never put in your books: gore and torture
Things to say to an author: I couldn’t put your book down. When’s the next one coming out?
Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: I don’t read women authors. Men write better mysteries, suspense, thrillers.
Best thing you’ve ever done: Married my husband 45 years ago.
Biggest mistake: A business venture that I won’t name. But the experience encouraged me to learn new skills that I use to this day.
About Linda:
A journalism major in college, Linda Lovely has spent most of her career working in PR and advertising—an early introduction to penning fiction. With Neighbors Like These is Lovely’s ninth mystery/suspense novel. Whether she’s writing cozy mysteries, historical suspense or contemporary thrillers, her novels share one common element—smart, independent heroines. Humor and romance also sneak into every manuscript. Her work has earned nominations for a number of prestigious awards, ranging from RWA’s Golden Heart for Romantic Suspense to Killer Nashville’s Silver Falchion for Best Cozy Mystery.
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