#WriterWednesday Interview with K. C. Grifant
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I’d like to welcome author K. C. Grifant to the blog today!
A few of your favorite things: I love Back to the Future paraphernalia, new coffee beans, interesting stone pendants.
Things you need to throw out: My high heels – after becoming a parent and getting used to a work-from-home lifestyle, I hope to never wear them again.
Things you need for your writing sessions: Coffee, sugar, and music.
Things that hamper your writing: Leaf-blowers outside the window, doorbells.
Things you love about writing: The opportunity to create entirely new worlds and realities.
Things you hate about writing: How typos and errors are as persistent as cockroaches, even in final drafts.
Hardest thing about being a writer: Fighting off imposter syndrome.
Easiest thing about being a writer: Recommending books and authors.
Words that describe you: Creative and thoughtful
Words that describe you, but you wish they didn’t: Quiet
Favorite foods: Tacos
Things that make you want to gag: Licorice
Favorite beverage: A creative latte
Something that gives you a sour face: sour beer
Favorite smell: Amber, lilacs and jasmine
Something that makes you hold your nose: overpowering candles
Favorite books (or genre): Anything with a speculative and creative twist, so ideally something in the sci-fi, fantasy or horror genres.
Books you wouldn’t buy: A series that doesn’t have any speculative elements.
The thing that you will most remember about your writing life: The kindness and support of friends, family and strangers when my debut book came out.
Something in your writing life that you wish you could do over: I wish I had learned how to ignore imposter syndrome much earlier.
Most daring thing you’ve ever done: Riding in a hot air balloon. It seems tranquil and peaceful until you think about how you’re floating hundreds of feet in the air in essentially a giant wicker basket beneath a huge flame and balloon.
Something you chickened out from doing: Sky diving. Growing up it always sounded like fun, but now I’ve hit an age where the thought is more terrifying than appealing.
About K. C.:
KC Grifant is an award-winning author based in Southern California who writes internationally published horror, fantasy, science fiction and weird west stories for podcasts, anthologies and magazines. Her short stories have appeared in Andromeda Spaceways Magazine, Unnerving Magazine, Cosmic Horror Monthly, Dark Matter Magazine, the British SF Association’s Fission Magazine, Tales to Terrify, the Lovecraft eZine, and many others.
In addition to a Weird West novel, MELINDA WEST: MONSTER GUNSLINGER (Brigids Gate Press, Feb 2023), she has also written for dozens of anthologies, including: Chromophobia; Musings of the Muse; Dancing in the Shadows—A Tribute to Anne Rice; Field Notes from a Nightmare; The One That Got Away; Six Guns Straight From Hell; Shadowy Natures; Beyond the Infinite - Tales from the Outer Reaches; and the Stoker-nominated Fright Mare: Women Write Horror.
For details, please visit www.KCGrifant.com or @kcgrifant on the social sites.
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