#ThisorThatThursday Author Interview with Jodi Rath - Holiday Edition

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I’d like to welcome author Jodi Rath back to the blog for #ThisorThatThursday! Today is a holiday edition.

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A few of your favorite traditions:

Decorating the tree, inflatable holiday cats in the front lawn, wreaths around the home.

Something holiday-related that you’ll never do again:

Tree with eight cats—yet, I still do it every year! BWWWAAAHAAHAA!

Favorite holiday song:

“All I want for Christmas is my Two Front Teeth”

Holiday song that always gets stuck in your head for the wrong reason:

“Jingle Bells”

Favorite holiday treat:

Peppermint bark

A holiday treat that makes you gag:

Eggnog

Favorite holiday show or movie:

Love Actually

A holiday show or movie that you’ve seen too much:

Love Actually

Favorite holiday beverage:

Peppermint Mocha iced

A drink that gives you a sour face:

Eggnog

Favorite holiday smell:

Baked ham

Something that makes you hold your nose:

Deviled Eggs

Best holiday gift ever:

Oxford English Dictionary—I know—I’m a weirdo😊

Something you wished for but never received:

Peace on Earth that never ends

Best holiday gift you gave to someone:

Cats—my husband and I like to adopt cats😊

A gift that needs regifting:

Fruitcake

Best thing you ever cooked/baked for the holidays:

Cast Iron Skillet Honey Glazed Ham

Your worst holiday kitchen disaster:

Souffle—I was SO wrong to try it!

Favorite place you spent the holidays:

Home

The worst place to spend the holidays:

Anywhere but home.

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Yuletide Cast of the Iron Skillet

Holiday folly—LITERALLY! Alongside a murder comes another new little addition to the human race in Leavensport, Ohio. Not to mention a broken-off engagement, a double wedding, and buried bones in the village chapel cellar. The Martinez family is back in town to observe Nochebuena with Ava as the Tucker family gears up for their Christmas feast. Leavensport community center is abuzz with preparations for the village multi-cultural shindig until the discovery of an old unresolved crime casts a dark shadow over the town. Will Jolie and Ava solve their first cold case in time to save the holiday celebrations—and will they both survive it?

Welcome to Leavensport, OH, where DEATH takes a DELICIOUS turn!

About Jodi:

Moving into her second decade working in education, Jodi Rath has decided to begin a life of crime in her The Cast Iron Skillet Mystery Series. Her passion for both mysteries and education led her to combine the two to create her business MYS ED, where she splits her time between working as an adjunct for Ohio teachers, educational writing, marketing consultant work with authors, and creating mischief in her fictional writing. She currently resides in a small, cozy village in Ohio with her husband and her eight cats.

Let’s Be Social:

Website: www.jodirath.com 

FB Author page: @authorjodirath or https://www.facebook.com/authorjodirath/

Twitter: @jodirath

Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/profile/jodi-rath

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/dashboard

Book Links:

Amazon:https://www.amazon.com/Yuletide-Cast-Skillet-Mystery-Holiday-ebook/dp/B085ZR2CRQ/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Yuletide+Cast+of+the+Iron+Skillet&qid=1606691798&sr=8-1   

All other e-platforms:  https://books2read.com/u/mdzPwR

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#ThisorThatThursday Interview with Jodi Rath

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I’d like to welcome mystery author, Jodi Rath, back to the blog for #ThisorThatThursday.

A few of your favorite things: My husband, cats, books, my murder board, all my screens (phone, tablet, monitor, and surface pro), kickboxing bag, yoga mat, cast iron skillets, my business.

Things you need to throw out: hmmm….some would say books BUT NO WAY! LOL Probably shoes and clothes—I have too much!

Things you need for your writing sessions: murder board (which is really a whiteboard), yarn to map out the plot on murder board, pictures—visuals of places in my fictional village Leavensport, OH, my style sheet or chart of characters, plot points, and settings to keep everything in order, computer, paper, pen, pencil, books for research, my cats, cup of hot or cold tea and dumdum suckers while I work.

Things that hamper your writing: social media—HA!

Things you love about writing: Everything!

Things you hate about writing: Nothing!

Hardest thing about being a writer: Probably the second and third drafts before finalizing for publishing Easiest thing about being a writer: Planning, plotting, first draft.

Words that describe you: feisty, sassy, determined, motivated, grit

Words that describe you, but you wish they didn’t: a bit obsessive-compulsive, perfectionist, control-freak

Favorite foods: most anything in cast iron skillet

Things that make you want to gag: oysters

Favorite music or song: 60’s and 80’s music mainly—but I love most music

Music that drives you crazy: country

Favorite smell: pumpkin/cinnamon spice

Something that makes you hold your nose: skunk smell Things you’d walk a mile for: chocolate or really good New York style pizza

Things that make you want to run screaming from the room: Snakes or alligators

Things you always put in your books: cats and characters that are similar to my family and friends and my frenemies over the ages

Things you never put in your books: abuse of animals

Things to say to an author: “I’m a fan.”

Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: “Write faster or Can I get it for free?”

Favorite places you’ve been: Home

Places you never want to go to again: Most anywhere other than home!

Favorite books (or genre): Mystery

Books you wouldn’t buy: I’m not into fantasy.

Things that make you happy: My husband, my cats, my business which is a lot of research, writing, and art.

Things that drive you crazy: Hypocrite, liars, manipulators

Best thing you’ve ever done: marrying my husband and our cat family

Biggest mistake: don’t believe in them. I’ve done a lot wrong, but I learn from it—so therefore, how much of a mistake can it be. That’s the educator in me talking.

Most daring thing you’ve ever done: race car driving in CA at Laguna Seca

Something you chickened out from doing: I got my brown belt in kickboxing—one away from black and never got the black belt.

About Jodi:

Moving into her second decade working in education, Jodi Rath has decided to begin a life of crime in her The Cast Iron Skillet Mystery Series. Her passion for both mysteries and education led her to combine the two to create her business MYS ED, where she splits her time between working as an adjunct for Ohio teachers and creating mischief in her fictional writing. She currently resides in a small, cozy village in Ohio with her husband and her nine cats.

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