#ThisorThatThursday Interview with Lane Stone
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I’d like to welcome the fabulous Lane Stone back to the blog. She has an amazing new series that has just launched.
Favorite thing to do when you have free time:
When I’m in Lewes, I like to take Cordy to the dog park. In Alexandria, VA, I have season tickets to opera and symphony at the Kennedy Center.
The thing you’ll always move to the bottom of your to do list: Ironing. Cleaning the frig.
Things you need when you’re in your writing cave: Starbucks Trenta Black Iced Tea.
Things that distract you from writing: Can I say my husband?
Things you will run to the store for at midnight: I’ve made nighttime runs to the drug store for sick friends.
Things you never put on your shopping list: Red meat. And we don’t eat much junk food.
Favorite snacks: Popcorn – if that’s considered junk food, please don’t tell me.
Things that make you want to gag: Licorice. Larry loves mint ice cream. I think it’s nasty.
Something you’re really good at: I think I’m a good aunt. When my nieces were young I would teach them a cuss word if they did what I said.
Something you’re really bad at: Singing. The universe isn’t fair. I should be able to sing.
Last best thing you ate: Egg white bites at Starbucks this morning after my swim.
Last thing you regret eating: Last night I went wild and had a diet coke with dinner, and was awake most of the night.
Things to say to an author: I laughed a lot reading your book.
Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: “I thought I might just write a book.”
Favorite places you’ve been: We went to Antarctica in February. It was just amazing.
Places you never want to go to again: 2020
The coolest person you’ve ever met: Why, you, Heather!
The celebrity who didn’t look like he/she did in pictures/video: Meg Ryan. She was short and sat in the back of the room where my husband was giving a speech. Someone told me who she was – I wouldn’t have recognized her though I’m a huge fan. She was so unassuming. Not at all a diva.
The most exciting thing about your writing life: I’m over the moon every launch day.
The one thing you wish you could do over in your writing life: Not let anything get in the way of writing. It took 10 years to write my first book, I’m embarrassed to say.
About Lane:
Lane Stone lives in Alexandria, Virginia and Lewes, Delaware with her husband, Larry Korb, and their Standard Schnauzer, Cordy. She’s the author of THE COLLECTOR, an art thriller, which is the first book in The Big Picture trilogy. The first book in the Old Town Antiques Mystery series, DEAD MEN DON’T DECORATE, will be published in November 2022, and will be written as Cordy Abbott. She is the author of the Pet Palace Mysteries and the Tiara Investigation Mystery series.
When not writing she enjoys characteristic baby boomer pursuits: being a dog Mom, traveling and volunteering for good causes, like AAUW and the Delaware River & Bay Lighthouse Foundation. She serves on several boards.
She has a post-graduate certificate in Antiquities Theft and Art Crime.
Visit her at www.LaneStoneBooks.com and https://twitter.com/themenopausedog.
She is represented by Dawn Dowdle, Blue Ridge Literary Agency.
