#WriterWednesday Interview with Kate B. Jackson

I’d like to welcome the fabulous Kate B. Jackson (K. B. Jackson) to the blog for #WriterWednesday.

Words that describe you: Optimistic, tenacious, reconciliatory

Words that describe you, but you wish they didn’t: Resting B* Face

Favorite foods: Anything Mexican, Shawarma, sticky toffee pudding

Things that make you want to gag: mushrooms and lima beans

Favorite music or song: I love oldies, but I’ve found there’s a Kelly Clarkson song for any occasion.

Music that drives you crazy: Morrissey and the Smiths. I’m sorry, I just can’t. I almost couldn’t date my husband because he enjoys it.

Favorite beverage: Coke Zero with fresh lime or an extra dirty vodka martini

Something that gives you a sour face: I have no poker face, so anything I don’t like!

Something you’re really good at: solving ancestry mysteries

Something you’re really bad at: sitting in the passenger seat while my kid learns to drive

Last best thing you ate: Diablo tenderloin bites in a spicy Argentinian cream sauce from El Gaucho Steakhouse. I have to restrain myself from licking the plate.

Last thing you regret eating: An entire box of mini Nilla Wafers

Things you’d walk a mile for: Tacos, my family, to fit into a dress. Not necessarily in that order.

Things that make you want to run screaming from the room: rodents, snakes, disrespectful bickering between spouses

Things you always put in your books: Easter eggs. There are specific methods I won’t disclose, but they’re always there.

Things you never put in your books: evil. I want to understand what would drive an average person to kill, so no serial killers or sociopaths.

Things to say to an author: Where do you prefer I leave my review?

Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: I know you’re on deadline but what are you making for dinner?

Favorite places you’ve been: England (York, Bath, and London)

Places you never want to go to again: The emergency room in Willows, CA where I spent several hours after rolling my suburban filled with my 4 kids and all my photo albums across I5 while moving from Socal to Washington State.

Some real-life story that made it to one of your books: An encounter with a raccoon

Something in your story that readers think is about you, but it’s not: I hope my mother doesn’t think Audrey’s mom is based on her, because she absolutely is not!

About Kate:

Kate B Jackson (KB Jackson) is an author of mystery novels for grownups and mystery/adventure novels for kids. She lives in the Pacific NW with her husband and has four mostly grown children. Her debut middle grade release is “The Sasquatch of Hawthorne Elementary” (Reycraft Books) about a twelve-year-old boy hired by the most popular girl at his new school to investigate what she saw in the nearby woods. Book one in the Chattertowne Mysteries series, “Secrets Don’t Sink,” (Level Best Books July 2023) introduces Audrey O’Connell, a small town feature reporter who, when her former boyfriend’s body is found floating in the local marina, uncovers the depths to which some will go to keep secrets submerged.

Her debut novel in the Cruising Sisters mystery series, Until Depths Do Us Part (Tule Publishing) will be released Spring 2024.

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LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/kbjackson