#ThisorThatThursday Author Interview with Jeanne Adams

Please join me in welcoming author Jeanne Adams to the blog for #ThisorThatThursday.

A few of your favorite things: I love dogs of all shapes and sizes, Constant Comment tea, and a good joke.

Things you need to throw out: OMGosh…so much. Marie Kondo would have a fit in my house. Old Southern Living magazines (I need to just pull out the recipe and throw the rest away!), duplicate photos, old electronics that no longer work (but that I need to pull the hard drives from…), stuff like that. Ha!

Things you need for your writing sessions: I need to have walked and seen people, or at least talked to the clerks at my coffee shop prior to sitting down to write because I’m an extrovert. If I can get a little “people time” first thing, then I can happily sit down to write!

 Things you love about writing: I LOVE creating worlds, I love putting my characters in jeopardy then getting them out again, I love setting the clues then helping my characters figure them out. I also like a lot of BOOM! Going on, so I love writing a good explosion.

Hardest thing about being a writer: The hardest thing is that I’m an extrovert and very bouncy, so sitting still not talking to the “real humans” is kinda challenging for me!

Things you never want to run out of: Oh, the simple things in life – toilet paper, milk/cream for coffee, clean water, clean air… But for the other stuff, I never want to run out of pecans, tea or great books to read! (I don’t think I’m in too much danger of that!)

Things you wish you’d never bought: A stationary bike – I ride it occasionally, but not enough to justify it’s expense!

Words that describe you: Adaptable, energetic, goofy, blonde, driven.

Favorite foods: Pumpkin pie, Ham, Bacon, Diet Coke (That’s a food group, right?), Biscuits with honey or gravy, Steak, Fresh green beans…I could go on and on.  I like food!

Things that make you want to gag:  Brussel Sprouts. Beets. Frog legs.

Favorite Music or song: Oh, I love so many… The Band Perry’s Better Dig Two; Burn It To The Ground by Nickleback is a fav; Loggins and Messina Celebrate Me Home.

Music that drives you crazy: Alas, Opera. There are a few I love, but most makes me cringe. I’d LIKE to like it, but I just don’t.

Favorite beverage: Coffee for hot, iced tea or Diet Coke for cold

Favorite smell: Cooking turkey.

Something that makes you hold your nose: Cooking Brussel sprouts.

Something you wish you could do: I wish I could paint.

Something you wish you’d never learned to do: Pull/set chain link fence. Ugh. Never want to do that again!

Something you like to do: Sing

Last best thing you ate: An amazing gluten-free pumkin custard at Cedric’s Tavern on the Biltmore Estate in Asheville. OMGosh, heaven on a spoon!

Last thing you regret eating: A mushroom risotto that, unbeknownst to me, had bell peppers in it. (I’m allergic to peppers) Why would mushroom risotto have peppers, you ask? No idea. “For color” is the usual answer when chefs put peppers in things that shouldn’t have it…Sick as a dog.

The last thing you ordered online: A converter plug for my trip to Iceland!

The last thing you regret buying: A leather bracelet/band for my FitBit Alta. It was not “as advertised."

Things you’d walk a mile for:  My family, my dogs, and coffee ice cream

Things you always put in your books: Pets!

Things you never put in your books: Pets dying, animal cruelty, and a certain c-word.

Things to say to an author: Of course we all want to hear: “I LOVED your book and recommended it to ten people!” but I also love to have people ask me why I write suspense, or what’s my favorite author to read when I’m not writing.

Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book:

“I don’t ready those trashy romantic books, even the mysteries with some romance are too trashy for me.”

“I have a book idea. Hey, I know what! I’ll tell you, you can write it and we’ll split the money!”

“Can you hook me up with your editor/publisher?”

 Favorite places you’ve been: Edinburgh, London, and Guethary France outside the US. Here in the US, Western NC, Chicago, San Francisco… So many places!

Places you never want to go to again: Downtown LA because I got SO lost!

 Favorite books (or genre): Love so many! One of my current favs is a hot historical from Anna Campbell, The Highlander’s Defiant Captive. Also love suspense – especially Nora Roberts/JD Robb and KJ Howe. My fav genre though is probably Science Fiction/Fantasy and Nancy Northcott, Nalini Singh and Ilona Andrews are favorites there!

Books you wouldn’t buy: Authors who’ve been mean to readers. I’ve seen it happen and I won’t ever buy that author again.

People you’d like to invite to dinner (living): Omgosh! There are so many here too! President and Mrs. Obama, President and Mrs. Carter, President and Mrs. Bush, Greta Thunberg. Rachel Maddow, Chris Fischer from OCEARCH…

Favorite things to do: Predictably, my fav thing is to read and/or to write. Show dogs. Play with the dogs. Watch my eldest play baseball. Play videogames with my youngest. Go to any kind of football game from peewee to professional

Things that make you happy: My family and pets. Writing THE END. Friends. Travel…you know, the usual!  Ha!

Proudest moment: Oh, there are so many because I try to celebrate victories large and small, but one of the most recent proud moments was when the book my co-author Nancy Northcott and I wrote, WELCOME TO OUTCAST STATION (a space-based mystery), was compared to the work of Robert Heinlein and Jack McDevitt.

Best thing you’ve ever done: Gone to the party where I was introduced to my beloved husband.

Biggest mistake: Getting married the first time. I knew better….Ha! Ah, well, corrected that mistake!

Most daring thing you’ve ever done: Walked on 40’ of fire at a Tony Robbins event.

The nicest thing a reader said to you: “You kept me up half the night because I couldn’t put your book down.” Swoon!

The craziest thing a reader said to you: “Have you tried all the sexy stuff out with your husband before you write it?”

About Jeanne:

Jeanne Adams writes award-winning suspense, fantasy/paranormal, Urban Fantasy and space adventure and she knows all about getting rid of the evidence. Both traditionally and indie published, Jeanne has been featured in Cosmopolitan Magazine & her books have been hailed as “Best Suspense Books of the Year!” She teaches highly sought after classes on Body Disposal for Writers, Plotting for those who hate to Plot, as well as How to Write a Fight Scene with her pal Nancy Northcott www.JeanneAdams.com Twitter: @JeanneAdams Instagram: @JPAGryphon www.Facebook.com/JeanneAdamsAuthor