#ThisorThatThursday Author Interview with K.C. Grifant
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I’d like to welcome author K. C. Grifant to the blot for #ThisorThatThursday!
Favorite thing that you always make time for: Browsing bookstores and finding new coffee shops.
The thing you’ll always do just about anything to avoid: Car tune-ups and grocery shopping.
Things you need when you’re in your writing cave: Sugary coffee drinks and one of my dozens of curated playlists.
Things that distract you from writing: My newborn, but that’s to be expected!
The thing you like most about being a writer: Creating new worlds and not having to compromise on a vision.
The thing you like least about being a writer: How long it takes to create a clean draft. I always underestimate the time from writing a first draft to getting a piece close to final.
Things you will run to the store for in the middle of the night: Coffee if we’re out and (currently) baby diapers.
Things you never put on your shopping list: Anything with licorice.
The coolest thing you’ve bought online: Most recently, a signed print from the movie Jaws and miniature books featuring the covers of my stories from anthologies and magazines.
The thing you wished you’d never bought: Adult wheeled sneakers. They are a disaster waiting to happen.
The thing that you will most remember about your writing life: How kind and supportive friends, family and strangers can be, as well as how friendly the indie/horror community is.
Something in your writing life that you wish you could do over: There’s never enough time, so writing more, and earlier.
Something you wanted to be when you were a kid: An astronaut. I was serious enough that I made plans to go to space camp and learn to pilot—neither of which came to pass.
Something you do that you never dreamed you’d do: I never thought I’d live in California. As someone who grew up on the east coast, the west coast seemed like a fairytale place where the scenery and weather were too good to be true.
Things you always put in your books: Diverse women characters.
Things you never put in your books: I try to avoid stereotypes as much as possible. Also, I’m too squeamish to write extremely graphic violence.
Things to say to an author: You’ll buy/read/recommend their book.
Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: Pointing out a nitpicky error on a published work (e.g., the scrunchie incident in Sex & The City).
The best job you ever had: Science journalist and communicator, where I get to learn about fascinating cutting-edge research every day.
The worst job you ever had: An underpaid receptionist for a sketchy chiropractor.
The one thing you cook/bake that is better than a restaurant dish: I’ve perfected my stovetop popcorn recipe so it’s on par with movie theater popcorn.
The one thing you cooked/baked that turned out to be an epic disaster: Everything else.
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 tales 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.
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