#ThisorThatThursday Author Interview with Libby McNamee
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I’d like to welcome author Libby McNamee to the blog for #ThisorThatThursday!
A few of your favorite things: Reading, Traveling, Visiting Historic Sites, My Friends, Comfort Food, Swimming and Biking
Things you need to throw out: Clothes that no longer fit me, but I hope they will someday; sentimental chotchkies; and random papers that I plan to refer back to someday
Things you need for your writing sessions: QUIET!
Things that hamper your writing: Constant distractions
Things you love about writing: Creating a labor of love from a blank page
Things you hate about writing: It often feels pointless
Hardest thing about being a writer: Believing in yourself enough to keep going when things aren’t coming together
Easiest thing about being a writer: Flexible hours!
Favorite foods: Chocolate, Twizzlers, Sushi, Anything Asian
Things that make you want to gag: Meatloaf, Stewed Tomatoes, Cooked Carrots
Something you like to do: Finding bargains
Something you wish you’d never done: Gone to law school
Last best thing you ate: Homemade Thai Lettuce Wraps
Last thing you regret eating: The frosted cookie for breakfast Things you’d walk a mile for: A bookstore!
Things that make you want to run screaming from the room: Someone chewing with their mouth open
Things to say to an author: “Congratulations! What a wonderful accomplishment!”
Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: “Why haven’t you finished another one by now? Shouldn’t the second one be easy?”
Favorite places you’ve been: Mount Rushmore; Sedona, Arizona; Paris; Hawaii; Everywhere in Washington State; Vail, Colorado
Places you never want to go to again: Camp Bedrock in Tuzla, Bosnia, where I lived for six months as the only female officer when serving in the US Army JAG Corps
Best thing you’ve ever done: Publishing “Susanna’s Midnight Ride”
Biggest mistake: Not publishing it sooner!
Most daring thing you’ve ever done: Joining the Army
Something you chickened out from doing: Joining the State Department
About Libby
Libby McNamee is an author, lawyer, and veteran. She loves exploring America’s many historical sites. When a descendant told her the TRUE story of Susanna Bolling from Hopewell, Virginia, and her heroism during the Revolutionary War, Libby was determined to share it with the world. “Susanna’s Midnight Ride: The Girl Who Won the Revolutionary War” is her first published novel, geared to upper middle grade readers through old age. "Susanna's Midnight Ride" was named #1 in Juvenile Fiction by the 2020 Independent Publisher Book "IPPY" Awards. In 2021, she will release "Dolley Madison & the War of 1812: America's First Lady."
Libby served as a US Army JAG Officer in Korea, Bosnia, Germany, and Washington State. A native of Boston, Libby graduated from Georgetown University cum laude and Catholic University Law School. She has lived in Richmond since 2000.
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