#WriterWednesday Interview with Cathi Stoler
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I’d like to welcome the fabulous Cathi Stoler to the blog for #WriterWednesday!
Hardest thing about being a writer: Remembering all the great story ideas I dream about then forgetting them in the morning.
Easiest thing about being a writer: Sitting down to write.
Words that describe you: Kind, caring, determined, and a self -starter.
Words that describe you, but you wish they didn’t: Opiniated and take no prisoners.
Favorite foods: Pizza, pasta, ice cream, and olives.
Things that make you want to gag: Beets, kale, and kimchi.
Favorite music or song: The Beatles, David Bowie, Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young
Music that drives you crazy: Rap
Things you always put in your books: Fashion, food, and interesting settings.
Things you never put in your books: Anything about harming children.
Things to say to an author: I really enjoyed your book and wrote a 5-star review.
Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: I’m so sorry, I thought you wrote that thriller, not Jeffrey Archer.
Favorite places you’ve been: Barcelona, Africa, Israel, and Italy.
Places you never want to go to again: Dallas, Texas.
Favorite books (or genre): Mystery and thrillers.
Books you wouldn’t buy: Self-help.
Favorite things to do: Walk along the streets of Manhattan and eavesdrop for interesting book ideas.
Things you’d run through a fire or eat bugs to get out of doing: Talking to a telemarketer.
Best thing you’ve ever done: Start writing.
Biggest mistake: Not starting to write when I was younger.
The nicest thing a reader said to you: I love your work. When is your next book coming.
The craziest thing a reader said to you: I enjoyed your book and would recommend it, but I’d only give it two stars.
Besides writing, what’s the most creative thing you’ve done: Learned how to be a glassblower.
A project that didn’t quite turn out the way you planned it: Making a lot of wanky glass vessels.
Some real-life story that made it to one of your books: Many years ago, 1’d read about a female detective who worked undercover, and I based a protagonist on her. Last year, I tracked her down and got to meet her when she was a guest at our Sisters in Crime meeting.
Something in your story that readers think is about you, but it’s not: That my childhood growing up in the Bronx was filled with adversity like my protagonist Jude, in The Murder On The Rocks series. I did not. My childhood was fun and happy.
About Cathi:
Cathi Stoler is an Amazon Best Selling author and Derringer winner. Her newest series is Nick of Time and Out Of Time, The Nick Donahue Adventures, She has also written four novels in her Murder On the Rocks Series: Bar None, and The Silver Falchion finalist Best Suspense Novel 2020 Last Call, plus the Chanticleer Clue Book Awards Finalists, Straight Up and With A Twist, and The Laurel and Helen NY Mysteries, including Telling Lies, Keeping Secrets, and The Hard Way, plus multiple short stories. She is a board member of NYSinC, and a member of MWA, and ITW. You can find her at http://www.cathistoler.com, or email her at cathi@cathistoler.com.
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