#ThisorThatThursday Author Interview with Daphne Silver
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I’d like to welcome Daphne Silver to the blog for #ThisorThatThursday!
Things you never want to run out of: Ideas or energy. Unfortunately, I have seemed to run out of the energy part already.
Things you wish you’d never bought: Shoes that hurt and don’t have support, even if they are cute
Things you need for your writing sessions: A laptop and being left alone, even in a busy cafe or place
Things that hamper your writing: People talking to me, which is slightly ironic because I’m a big extravert.
A few of your favorite things: So many books, especially the first edition Edgar Allan Poe I gave my husband.
Things you need to throw out: my maternity clothes. My kiddo is 7 years old already.
Words that describe you: Creative, enthusiastic, generous of spirit
Words that describe you, but you wish they didn’t: Bombastic, talkative, speaks before thinking.
Favorite foods: Pizza, dark chocolate, paneer makhani
Things that make you want to gag: Mint, coffee, red meat
Favorite smell: Vanilla, gardenia, tea rose
Something that makes you hold your nose: canned tuna
The last thing you ordered online: Winter gloves
The last thing you regret buying: Pillow covers instead of pillows
Things you’d walk a mile for: My family
Things that make you want to run screaming from the room: My family
Things you always put in your books: Unexpected history factoids
Things you never put in your books: Graphic gory violence
Things to say to an author: I can’t wait to read your book!
Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: Why do you waste your time writing?
Favorite places you’ve been: Italy and Ireland
Places you never want to go to again: Middle school
Favorite books (or genre): Cozy mysteries
Books you wouldn’t buy: Horror, unless they’re for my husband
Besides writing, what’s the most creative thing you’ve done: Painting. I was a painting major in college.
A project that didn’t quite turn out the way you planned it: Learning a new language. I don’t have any linguistic abilities.
Some real-life story that made it to one of your books: The missing bejeweled covers to the ancient Book of Kells
Something in your story that readers think is about you, but it’s not: I’m not as daring or smart as my heroine Juniper Blume
About Daphne:
Daphne Silver is the author of the Rare Books Cozy Mystery series. She’s worked more than twenty years in museums and has the great fortune of being married to a librarian. When she’s not writing, she’s drawing and painting. She lives in Maryland with her family. Although she’s not much of a baker, she won’t ever turn down a sweet lokshen kugel.
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