#ThisorThatThursday Author Interview with Allie Marie

I’d like to welcome author, Allie Marie, to the blog for #ThisorThatThursday!

Things you need for your writing sessions: My imagination, a cup of hot tea or glass of iced tea (depending on the weather), and access to the internet to research every five minutes

Things that hamper your writing: Playing Candy Crush, getting writer refusal (as opposed to writer’s block! It’s those days that I just refuse to write the unexciting but crucial scene until I’m ready.)

Things you love about writing: The chance to put my imagination into words that people enjoy reading

Things you hate about writing: The slow process of editing and publishing the book once written.

Hardest thing about being a writer: For me, it’s the dry spells of writing while tending to the aspects of everyday life.

Easiest thing about being a writer: Having an overactive imagination from which there is a never-ending flow of ideas. I should live long enough to write all the stories begging to be told!

Something you’re really good at: Word games, spelling

Something you’re really bad at: Any advanced math. Don’t like it, never will, which is why I am a writer.

Something you wish you could do: Travel more. And more!

Something you wish you’d never learned to do: Get on social media

Things you’d walk a mile for: Family

Things that make you want to run screaming from the room: TV commercials. They get more annoying or downright gross every day.

Favorite places you’ve been: I’ve been lucky to travel extensively in the US and overseas. Favorite places were Amsterdam, Dubrovnik, Prague

Places you never want to go to again: The hospital.

Best thing you’ve ever done: Marrying my husband

Biggest mistake: Loaning money that was never paid back ☹

Most daring thing you’ve ever done: Flown solo in an airplane (and landed safely!!!)

Something you chickened out from doing: I haven’t really chickened out of anything yet, but the one thing I would chicken out of is bungee-jumping.

The nicest thing a reader said to you: “I loved your books and felt like I was right there in the scene with the characters.”

The craziest thing a reader said to you: “Are the ghosts in your stories real?”

About Allie:

Award-winning author Allie Marie grew up in Virginia, where her favorite childhood pastime was reading Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden mysteries. She never expected to grow up to be a real-life police officer herself. Eventually work her way up through the ranks, Allie retired - four times - as her experiences kept leading her to other law enforcement adventures in the US as well as overseas.

After her final “retirement,” Allie soon embarked on a quest to fulfill a long-time dream—to write mysteries and crime thrillers. She was derailed from those mystery plans, however, when she began researching her family tree. Inspired by ancestors she discovered, she began The True Colors Series, a paranormal mystery series with modern local settings and colonial history, which has garnered multiple awards and leads to a spinoff collection, The True Spirits Trilogy. The first book in the trilogy is Barley and Lace, scheduled to release in January 2022, which recently placed second in the FILNE Founders Contest.

Her standalone historical, Return to Afton Square, again with modern local settings, but this time involves a WW1 mystery. Not only does this story introduce the central character of the True Spirits Trilogy, it includes familiar characters from the original series.

She has contributed short stories to the ’Tis the Season Sweet Romance Novelettes and the bestselling Feisty Heroines Romance Collection of Short Stories. She has contributed her first murder mystery to the anthology Murder by the Glass Cocktail Mysteries.

Those other mystery stories? They still patiently wait for their turn.

Besides family, her passions are travel anywhere, and camping with her husband Jack.

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Allie-Marie/e/B017MXZSUO/