#ThisorThatThursday Author Interview with Lois Winston
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I’d like to welcome author Lois Winston back to the blog. Congratulations on your latest!
Favorite thing to do when you have free time: See a Broadway show. Unfortunately, since I recently moved nearly 1,000 miles from Manhattan. I’m going to have to find a new favorite thing to do the next time I have some free time.
The thing you’ll always move to the bottom of your to-do list: Housecleaning. Why is it that someone always spills something right after you’ve washed the kitchen floor?
Things you need when you’re in your writing cave: Coffee, coffee, and more coffee!
Things that distract you from writing: Emails, texts, and my husband. (Yeah, I know I should ignore them. Easier said than done. Especially the husband!)
Favorite snacks: Chocolate, pretzels, and ice cream. Not necessarily together but often all together.
Things that make you want to gag: Peanut butter.
Something you wanted to be when you were a kid: An astronaut.
Something you do that you never dreamed you’d do: Write novels.
Something you wish you could do: Sing. Trust me, you wouldn’t want to hear me try.
Something you wish you’d never learned to do: Anything I can’t do well. I want to feel a sense of accomplishment whenever I learn to do something new.
Things to say to an author: I love all your books! When is the next one coming out?
Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: Oh, anyone can write those books. When are you going to write a real book?
Favorite places you’ve been: Manhattan, Italy, and Disneyworld (yeah, I’m a really just a kid at heart)
Places you never want to go to again: Anywhere with 100+ degrees heat and 100% humidity. (Disneyworld is far better in the winter, spring, and fall than in the summer!)
Best thing you’ve ever done: Learned to stand up for myself.
Biggest mistake: Allowing myself to be roped into living with my in-laws for six years.
Most daring thing you’ve ever done: Backpacked across Europe with a friend when we were in college.
Something you chickened out from doing: All rollercoasters or other thrill rides. (Yeah, I know I said I had wanted to be an astronaut, but that was before I ever rode a rollercoaster!)
The nicest thing a reader said to you: I once had a reader tell me my books had helped her get through a really difficult time because they’d made her laugh when all she had wanted to do was cry.
The craziest thing a reader said to you: A reader once gave me a 1-star review because my book was nothing like what Lee Child writes. Huh? I write humorous cozy mysteries. It’s no secret. All you have to do is look at the cover or read the back cover copy. Lee writes thrillers. Why would she expect my books to be anything like his?
Stitch, Bake, Die!
An Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery, Book 10
With massive debt, a communist mother-in-law, a Shakespeare-quoting parrot, and a photojournalist boyfriend who may or may not be a spy, crafts editor Anastasia Pollack already juggles too much in her life. So she’s not thrilled when her magazine volunteers her to present workshops and judge a needlework contest at the inaugural conference of the New Jersey chapter of the Stitch and Bake Society, a national organization of retired professional women. At least her best friend and cooking editor Cloris McWerther has also been roped into similar duties for the culinary side of the 3-day event taking place on the grounds of the exclusive Beckwith Chateau Country Club.
The sweet little old ladies Anastasia is expecting to meet are definitely old, and some of them are little, but all are anything but sweet. She’s stepped into a vipers’ den that starts with bribery and ends with murder. When an ice storm forces Anastasia and Cloris to spend the night at the Chateau, Anastasia discovers evidence of insurance scams, medical fraud, an opioid ring, long-buried family secrets, and a bevy of suspects.
Can she piece together the various clues before she becomes the killer’s next target?
Crafting tips included.
Buy Links
Paperback https://amzn.to/2YiodcR
Kindle https://amzn.to/3ylMivw
Apple Books https://books.apple.com/us/book/stitch-bake-die/id1582066729
Kobo https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/stitch-bake-die
About Lois:
USA Today and Amazon bestselling and award-winning author Lois Winston writes mystery, romance, romantic suspense, chick lit, women’s fiction, children’s chapter books, and nonfiction under her own name and her Emma Carlyle pen name. Kirkus Reviews dubbed her critically acclaimed Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery series, “North Jersey’s more mature answer to Stephanie Plum.” In addition, Lois is a former literary agent and an award-winning craft and needlework designer who often draws much of her source material for both her characters and plots from her experiences in the crafts industry.
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