#WriterWednesday Author Interview with Edward Willett
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I’d like to welcome author, Edward Willett to the blog for #WriterWednesday!
The thing you like most about being a writer:
Readers telling me they enjoy my work!
The thing you like least about being a writer:
The extremely irregular and sometimes entirely lacking income.
Things you will run to the store for in the middle of the night:
Coffee cream.
Things you never put on your shopping list:
Heart of palm.
The coolest thing you’ve bought online:
Antique champagne glasses with hollow stems that show the bubbles rising—found on eBay for my wife for an anniversary present.
The thing you wished you’d never bought.
Two wireless mics for my iPhone for livestreaming, when a cheap wired one works better.
Something you’re really good at:
Singing. I’ve sung in very good, national-level choirs, and have performed professionally in musical theatre and opera.
Something you never learned how to do:
Fly. Always kind of wanted to but it’s never happened.
Something you wanted to be when you were a kid:
Astronaut.
Something you do that you never dreamed you’d do:
Own a publishing company, and publish and edit internationally bestselling authors (in the Shapers of Worlds anthologies).
Things you always put in your books:
Almost always, there’s a little nod to Saskatchewan—it might be the landscape, or a place name, or a character name.
Things you never put in your books:
Explicit references to modern-day politics.
Things to say to an author:
I love your books!
Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book:
When are you going to get a real job?
Favorite things to do:
Perform in a musical, preferably one where I’m onstage all the time and have all the best songs.
Things you’d run through a fire or eat bugs to get out of doing:
Attend the political convention of any party.
Most daring thing you’ve ever done:
Skydive.
Something you chickened out from doing:
Skydive a second time.
The coolest person you’ve ever met:
Alan Doyle (former lead singer of Great Big Sea)
The celebrity who didn’t look like he/she did in pictures/video:
Pierre Eliot Trudeau (way shorter than I thought).
The best job you ever had:
Musical theatre performer.
The worst job you ever had:
Manual laborer at the Weyburn Inland Grain Terminal.
The one thing you cook/bake that is better than a restaurant dish:
Enchilada casserole, a recipe my mother picked up when we lived in New Mexico that remains my favorite food ever.
The one thing you cooked/baked that turned out to be an epic disaster:
A chocolate cake that fell so badly I took it to work and passed it off as brownies.
About Edward
Edward Willett is the award-winning author of more than sixty books of science fiction, fantasy, and non-fiction for readers of all ages. His twelfth novel for DAW Books, THE TANGLED STARS, comes out October 18. In 2018, he founded Shadowpaw Press (www.shadowpawpress.com) which publishes new work by emerging and established authors and new editions of notable, previously published work. Among its releases are the SHAPERS OF WORLDS anthologies, featuring authors, many of them international bestsellers and award-winners, who were guests of The Worldshapers podcast (www.theworldshapers.com), which Ed hosts and which won an Aurora Award for best fan-related work in 2019. SHAPERS OF WORLDS VOLUME III also comes out in October. In addition to writing, editing, and publishing, Ed is a professional actor and singer who has performed in numerous plays, operas, and musicals. Ed lives in Regina, Saskatchewan, with his wife, Margaret Anne Hodges, P.Eng., a past-president of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan.
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