#ThisorThatThursday Author Interview with Katherine Lawrence
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I would like to welcome Katherine Lawrence to the blog for #ThisorThatThursday!
Things you need for your writing sessions: Paper, pencil, laptop.
Things that hamper your writing: Noise, negative self-talk.
Things you love about writing: I love my ideas, my images, my inventive language, my honesty on the page, and the way writing puts me in touch with my true self.
Things you hate about writing: Discovering a typo AFTER the book has been printed.
Hardest thing about being a writer: Promoting my books.
Easiest thing about being a writer: Giving a reading.
Things you always put in your books: Details, specific moments, all six senses.
Things you never put in your books: animal cruelty.
Things to say to an author: “Love your book! I’m giving a copy to everyone I know.”
Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: “I could’ve written that.”
Favorite places you’ve been: Canoe trips in northern Saskatchewan, specifically the Churchill River.
Places you never want to go to again: Las Vegas, bingo halls, casinos, shopping malls.
Favorite things to do: Writing, sharing food with the people I love, hiking, canoeing, reading a good book at night in my terrycloth housecoat.
Things you’d run through a fire or eat bugs to get out of doing: My taxes.
Things that make you happy: Writing.
Things that drive you crazy: Not writing.
Most embarrassing moment: Discovering a piece of spinach had been stuck to my front tooth while I was talking to a CEO about business.
Proudest moment: The launch of my five books: Black Umbrella; Stay; Never Mind; Lying to Our Mothers; and Ring Finger, Left Hand.
Best thing you’ve ever done: Marry my husband.
Biggest mistake: Working in jobs that bored me silly.
Most daring thing you’ve ever done: Write my young adult novel in verse, Stay.
Something you chickened out from doing: Sitting bedside with my dying father. I waited until his final hours.
The nicest thing a reader said to you: “I’m your biggest fan!”
The craziest thing a reader said to you: “I don’t read poetry.”
About Katherine:
Katherine Lawrence is a writer who loves troubled characters, poached eggs for supper, a messy desk, and green wool socks. Read her young adult verse novel, Stay, or any of her award-winning books of poetry: Black Umbrella; Never Mind; Lying to Our Mothers; Ring Finger, Left Hand. Katherine lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, the trapezoid-shaped province above North Dakota. She has an MFA in Writing, is a former writer in residence at Saskatoon Public Library, and coaches emerging and established writers. www.katherinelawrence.net
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