#ThisorThatThursday Author Interview with Linda Norlander
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I’d like to welcome author, Linda Norlander, back to the blog for #ThisorThatThursday! Congratulations on your latest novel.
Hardest thing about being a writer: Continuous self-doubt. Is my writing good enough?
Easiest thing about being a writer: Conjuring up stories to write about.
Something you’re really good at: Keeping the gas tank full in the car. I have a great fear of running out of gas. (Ever watch the cemetery scene in “Night of the Living Dead?”)
Something you’re really bad at: Making pancakes—they are known as Grandma’s burnt breakfast
Something you wanted to be when you were a kid: A cowgirl—of course I needed a horse which I didn’t have
Something you do that you never dreamed you’d do: Manage a website
Something you wish you could do: A better job of managing a website
Something you wish you’d never learned to do: Always being on time. I would love to be more spontaneous but this little voice in the back of my head keeps nagging me, “To be on time is to be late.”
Things to say to an author: This is Nobel Prize quality writing.
Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: I slept through your first chapter.
Favorite places you’ve been: North Shore of Lake Superior and (of course) Paris
Places you never want to go to again: Las Vegas—Last time I was there I lost $20 playing slot machine poker and declared it enough! Time to flee the noise and the glitz.
People you’d like to invite to dinner (living): Bruce Springsteen, Michelle Obama and Louise Penny
People you’d cancel dinner on: Ted Cruz, Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson
Favorite things to do: Playing Boggle with kids and grandkids (I never win.)
Things you’d run through a fire or eat bugs to get out of doing: Figuring out my taxes. I’m happy to pay someone else to do this.
Most embarrassing moment: Hitting the wrong opening chord as the church organist, thereby making a great blat onto the Lord. (I was thankfully fired from the volunteer job shortly thereafter.)
Proudest moment: Seeing the cover design for my first mystery.
Most daring thing you’ve ever done: I rode a bicycle from the west bank of the Mississippi River to Boston Harbor carrying a sleeping bag, a change of clothes and a water bottle
Something you chickened out from doing: Repeating the above.
The coolest person you’ve ever met: Rosalyn Carter, a definite steel magnolia.
The celebrity who didn’t look like he/she did in pictures/video: Bruce Springsteen—he’s short.
The nicest thing a reader said to you: Can’t wait for the next book.
The craziest thing a reader said to you: There’s a comma missing on page 46.
About Linda:
Linda Norlander is the author of A Cabin by the Lake mystery series set in Northern Minnesota. Books in the series include Death of an Editor and Death of a Starling and Death of a Snow Ghost. Norlander has published award winning short stories, op-ed pieces and short humor featured in regional and national publications. Before taking up the pen to write murder mysteries, she worked in public health and end-of-life care. Norlander resides in Tacoma, Washington with her spouse.
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