#ThisorThatThursday Interview with W. L. Hawkin
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I’d like to welcome author, W. L. Hawkin to the blog for #ThisorThatThursday!
A few of your favorite things: cobalt blue anything but especially glass bottles; waterfalls, fountains, really anything watery; cuddly dogs; deep red wine & dark chocolate
Things you need to throw out: the horrible old pens, paper clips, pencils, erasers, and other dried out paraphernalia I collected while teaching high school!
Things you love about writing: being magically transported through time and space along with my characters as a kind of shadowy voyeur
Things you hate about writing: the physical aches and pains I feel when sitting at the computer too long. Right now I’m dealing with bicep tendinitis!
Things you never want to run out of: lip gloss & Righteous Dairy Free chocolate peanut butter vegan ice cream ... Oh my! My newest addiction!
Things you wish you’d never bought: most clothing I order online as it never really works for one reason or another
Favorite music or song: Peter Gabriel’s 1994 Secret World Tour (check it out on Youtube;)
Music that drives you crazy: heavy headbanging metal
Favorite beverage: black tea with almond milk and maple syrup
Something that gives you a sour face: tempeh (yuk, I hate it!)
Something you’re really good at: savasana (lying in corpse position at the end of a yoga session and meditating)
Something you’re really bad at: the rest of the yoga session especially if it involves gymnastic poses!
Things you always put in your books: animals, especially dogs, wolves, and horses
Things you never put in your books: secret agents
Things to say to an author: “I stayed up all night reading your book! I love ... because ...” Insert a specific comment re characters, plot, or something that reveals you engaged with the writer’s work and got it.
Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: “I don’t want to read your book. I don’t read genres.” *shrug or eye roll (subtext: “I judge your book (which I refuse to try) to be beneath my intellectual, literary level.”
Favorite places you’ve been: the west coasts of Ireland, Scotland, Canada and the USA (from Alaska to Mexico; the Canadian Maritimes; Cozumel & Merida, Mexico; and Santa Fe, New Mexico
Places you never want to go to again: big cities like Chicago or Detroit (even Toronto’s a stretch and that’s where I was born)
People you’d like to invite to dinner (living): Peter Gabriel—I’d just like to soak up his energy. He doesn’t even have to talk. But I do have a piano and if he were to sing “Here Comes the Flood” I would literally melt. Peter Gabriel is one of my muses and inspired the Druid bard in my latest book. Conall Ceol has Peter’s incredible voice.
People you’d cancel dinner on: any extraverted, arrogant politician. You pick. The list is endless.
Things that make you happy: hiking in the rainforest; cowboy sunsets preferably with horse and cowboy; snuggling with my dog; family meals
Things that drive you crazy: leaf blowers. I saw a guy blowing dust from the sidewalk one day. Seriously?
The nicest thing a reader said to you: “I'd love to spend a day in the mind of W.L Hawkin, just to see what it's like in there.” *I took this for the compliment it was.
The craziest thing a reader said to you: “Your book’s risqué! And you, a teacher,” he said, tsking and wagging his finger.
About W. L.:
W. L. Hawkin writes “fantastical romantic adventure” from her loft near Vancouver, B.C. Her novels—To Charm a Killer, To Sleep with Stones, To Render a Raven, and To Kill a King each stand alone but form the Hollystone Mysteries series. This coven of West Coast witches and their eccentric friends, solve murders using ritual magic and a little help from the gods. Although Wendy is an introvert, in each book her characters go on a journey where she’s travelled herself.
A seeker and mystic fascinated by language, archaeology, and mythology, Wendy graduated from Trent University, Ontario, and has post-bac diplomas from SFU in British Columbia. Her background in Indigenous Studies and Humanities informs her work. Wendy is a blogger, book reviewer, and Indie author/publisher at Blue Haven Press.
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