#ThisorThatThursday Interview with Frances Aylor
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I’d like to welcome Frances Aylor back to the blog for this week’s #ThisorThatThursday interview!
Things you never want to run out of: Coffee, clean underwear, gas for my car
Things you wish you’d never bought: The 4 boxes of instant mashed potatoes that are still in my pantry 2 years later – I couldn’t resist a sale, but I don’t really like instant mashed potatoes.
Hardest thing about being a writer: Staying focused and not getting distracted by things on the internet
Easiest thing about being a writer: Talking with book clubs
Favorite foods: Fried chicken, pepperoni pizza, cookie dough ice cream
Things that make you want to gag: Really spicy foods, jalapeno peppers, raw oysters
Favorite music or song: Motown and beach music
Music that drives you crazy: Twangy country music
Things you’d walk a mile for: A medieval village, a beautiful sunset, a college football game
Things that make you want to run screaming from the room: Snakes and spiders
Favorite places you’ve been: Greek Isles, Frasassi Caves in Italy, the Amazon
Places you never want to go to again: overcrowded airports; grocery stores with long lines and surly cashiers
Favorite books (or genre): mysteries and biographies
Books you wouldn’t buy: Horror stories or anything with too much violence, blood, and gore
Favorite things to do: Travel with friends, try out new restaurants, attend plays and concerts
Things you’d run through a fire or eat bugs to get out of doing: Cleaning poison ivy from my shrubbery. If only I had remembered the line “Leaves of 3, let it be.”
Most daring thing you’ve ever done: White water rafting in Costa Rica
Something you chickened out from doing: Riding the Dominator roller coaster at Kings Dominion
Some real-life story that made it to one of your books: My paragliding experience in the Swiss Alps inspired the opening scene of my novel Choosing Guilt.
Something in your story that readers think is about you, but it’s not: Scuba diving in the Caribbean for my story “Death in the Deep.” I interviewed several divers for this story, but I have never been scuba diving myself.
About Frances:
Frances Aylor is an avid traveler who has paraglided in Switzerland, climbed the Great Wall of China, gone white-water rafting in Costa Rica, and fished for piranha in the Amazon. Her most recent adventures include cruising the Greek Isles and exploring the amazing Frasassi Caves in Italy. Formerly an investment analyst, she now focuses on volunteering in her community, spending time with family and friends, and writing. A member of Sisters in Crime and International Thriller Writers, she won the Ingram Spark “Rising Star” award for her thriller Money Grab and was first runner up for the 2021 Claymore Award for Choosing Guilt. Her most recent short story, “Death in the Deep,” was published in June 2024 in the anthology First Comes Love, Then Comes Murder.
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Website: https://francesaylor.com/
