#WriterWednesday Author Interview with Syrl Kazlo
/I’d like to welcome Syrl Kazlo to the blog for #WriterWednesday!
Hardest thing about being a writer: Finding the time to sit down and write. Easiest thing about being a writer: Daydreaming about the sticky situations I’m going to put my characters in.
Things you need for your writing sessions: A square of dark chocolate, a handful of walnuts and a dark chocolate and peanut granola bars. Now mind you this is all brain food right?
Things that hamper your writing: When life butts in like doctor appointments, paying the bills.
Words that describe you: Kind, caring, thoughtful, loyal
Words that describe you, but you wish they didn’t: Getting older, senior citizen, a tad overweight
Something you’re really good at: Handcrafts such as rug hooking, quilting, sewing.
Something you’re really bad at: Anything computer-related
Last best thing you ate: Chocolate crème pie
Last thing you regret eating: liver
Favorite music or song: oldies, 60’s
Music that drives you crazy: Not much does although I may not understand some of the newer stuff out there
The last thing you ordered online: a whistling coal car for my grandson’s model train set
The last thing you regret buying: Another pair of slacks. Like I need to add one more to the bazillion I already have. I’m kind of a shopaholic.
Things you always put in your books: A happy ending and of course the main characters that I include in each book especially Porkchop.
Things you never put in your books: Overt sex and violence Think Hallmark movie for my books
Things to say to an author: I liked your book. Love your characters. I’ve read all your books.
Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: I could have written this
Favorite books (or genre): cozy mystery
Books you wouldn’t buy: thriller, horror
Some real-life story that made it to one of your books: A person killing another by throwing water on them then locking that wet person out in the cold (Hubby is a Pennsylvania State Trooper, so I often pick his brain about past cases he solved.)
Something in your story that readers think is about you, but it’s not: That I have long curly hair. Nope, mine is short and straight.
Your favorite movie as a child: Old Yeller
A TV show or movie that kept you awake at night as a kid (or as an adult): “The Twilight Zone” The episode where hands crawled across the floor.
About Syrl: Syrl, a retired teacher, lives in upstate New York with her husband a lively dachshund and a wannabe dachshund (That’s a long story.). She writes the Samantha Davies Mystery series, featuring Samantha Davies and her loveable dachshund, Porkchop. When not writing she is busy hooking, rug hooking that is, and enjoying her family. Her newest book, number seven in the series, A Pawsome Summer For Murder, will be released May 1, 2025.
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website- http://www.sakazlo.com
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Instagram: @sakazlo
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