#ThisorThatThursday Author Interview with J. E. McDonald
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I’d like to welcome author J. E. McDonald to the blog for #ThisorThatThursday!
Favorite thing to do when you have free time: Read of course! Especially romance.
The thing you’ll always move to the bottom of your to do list: Cleaning lol. Nothing like someone coming over to visit to make it spring right back to the top, though.
Things you need when you’re in your writing cave: Music, fast WiFi, coffee.
Things that distract you from writing: My children and our two cats.
Hardest thing about being a writer: Figuring out the whole marketing schtick.
Easiest thing about being a writer: Coming up with stories. There are way too many in my head.
Things you will run to the store for at midnight: Toilet paper.
Things you never put on your shopping list: Lamb, venison, liver.
The coolest thing you’ve bought online: A necklace that matched the one my heroine wore in Ghost of an Enchantment.
The thing you wished you’d never bought: This monkey toy for my daughter that played the same song over and over again. Noisy baby toys are the worst.
Favorite snacks: Loaded nachos with a side of guacamole.
Things that make you want to gag: Taking the garbage out when it has sat too long.
Something you’re really good at: Packing! I can make a pile of stuff fit into an itty bitty box.
Something you’re really bad at: Navigation. As soon as I’m out of my city, all bets are off.
Something you wanted to be when you were a kid: A marine biologist. Then I realized I lived nowhere near the ocean and scrapped that idea.
Something you do that you never dreamed you’d do: Publish a book. Until my mid-twenties, I always thought a person needed to belong to a special club to become an author.
Something you wish you could do: I’ve always wanted to own a bookstore, one dedicated to genre fiction, especially romance. I’d love for it to have a cozy atmosphere where a person could sit with a cup of coffee and visit with friends, or even where writers could set up their laptops for a couple hours.
Something you wish you’d never learned to do: This is a hard one. I can’t think of any skills I’ve learned that I now regret. Everything is useful at some point.
Last best thing you ate: Fresh cut pineapple on a beach in Thailand.
Last thing you regret eating: Taco Bell.
Things to say to an author: I couldn’t put your book down!
Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: How’s the book coming along?
People you’d like to invite to dinner (living): Any of my friends that I haven’t been able to see over the past two years.
People you’d cancel dinner on: Politicians.
Favorite things to do: Camping with friends and family.
Things you’d run through a fire or eat bugs to get out of doing: Well, I’ve already mentioned cleaning, so I guess I’ll go with book marketing.
Best thing you’ve ever done: Had my three beautiful daughters.
Biggest mistake: Had my three beautiful daughters. (Lol. Just kidding.)
The nicest thing a reader said to you: A retired teacher emailed me out of the blue and gave me an A+ for my book.
The craziest thing a reader said to you: A family member said they wouldn’t read my book because they thought I was writing about myself and my husband. Ah, no. These books are just about the random people living in my head. (Nothing crazy here at all.)
The funniest thing that happened to you on vacation: This wasn’t funny when it happened, but about six years ago we took a trip across western Canada that had all the markings of a movie. In a bad way. Whatever could go wrong, did go wrong: flat tires, major traffic jams, holding up the ferry for hundreds of people, grizzly bears in the area, our trailer breaking down to the point of being scrapped. But now when we tell it, it just sounds absurd and makes people laugh.
The most embarrassing thing that happened to you on a vacation: I remember splitting the bottom of my swimsuit once. We were on the beach, and I had to wear a towel for the rest of the day. Ugh.
The most exciting thing about your writing life: Every time I release a new book, it’s the best feeling. A little intimidating too, yes, but it’s such a thrill to see the culmination of my hard work transformed into something I can hold in my hand.
The one thing you wish you could do over in your writing life: If the pandemic wasn’t happening during the release of my very first book, that would have been awesome
About J. E.
J.E. McDonald was born and raised in Saskatchewan, Canada, The Land of the Living Skies. As a child, she was either searching the clouds for identifiable shapes, or star-gazing way past her bedtime. She’s an anti-morning person who wakes up at 5am to write. Needless to say, coffee is a morning requirement. She cut her teeth watching Star Trek, James Bond movies, and reading the Harlequin novels her mother left in the bathroom—which resulted in an extremely skewed sense of sex education by age eleven. All of these factors contribute to her love of writing paranormal romance with humor, mystery, and lots of spice. J.E. resides in Saskatchewan with her husband and three daughters.
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Website: https://www.jemcdonald.net/
Other social media links via Linktree: https://linktr.ee/JEMcDonald
Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/J-E-McDonald/e/B08BXD1R2P/ref=aufs_dp_fta_dsk
