#ThisorThatThursday Author Interview with Lynn Chandler Willis
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I’d like to welcome the fabulous Lynn Chandler Willis to the blog for #ThisorThatThursday!
A few of your favorite things: Blankets and fuzzy socks
Things you need to throw out: Blankets and fuzzy socks
Things you need for your writing sessions: A playlist created on Spotify specific to that book, and visual images of how I envision my characters.
Things that hamper your writing: Certain songs on said playlist have such an emotional pull on me that I’ll find myself changing the direction of the scene to fit the song.
Things you love about writing: Letting my mind wander with all the what-ifs and when it all comes together in a complete story.
Things you hate about writing: Coming up with character names! The names have to have meaning and contribute to the characterization.
Words that describe you: Warped.
Words that describe you, but you wish they didn’t: Perfectionist, until I’m not.
Favorite foods: Pizza and anything Mexican. Oh, and Asian! Friday nights are my indulgence nights and I rotate between ordering pizza, Mexican, or Asian. It’s sadly predictable.
Things that make you want to gag: Sardines.
Favorite smell: Fresh linen. Remember the smell of freshly washed sheets air drying on a line in the backyard? Cleanest smell ever!
Something that makes you hold your nose: Certain types of cheese. And I’m a big fan of cheese so that one is tricky.
Something you wish you could do: Stick to an exercise routine.
Something you wish you’d never learned to do: Play Wordle.
Something you like to do: Walk Finn (my brown border collie) around the farm and easy-to-moderate hikes.
Something you wish you’d never done: Tried hiking a rocky trail up the side of a local mountain. No guardrail––nothing to keep you from falling. It was meant for mountain goats and I’m not a mountain goat. It was terrifying! You know when you’re in that moment of sheer panic that you just can’t move? That was me.
Favorite books (or genre): Anything by William Kent Krueger and/or Tana French
Books you wouldn’t buy: Epic fantasies. This world is hard enough for me to understand.
Most embarrassing moment: Misspelled my own name in a by-line
Proudest moment: When the whole family turned out for my first book signing.
Best thing you’ve ever done: Adopt Finn (the brown border collie) from the shelter
Biggest mistake: Bringing home two sibling, 8-week-old puppies. As much as I love puppies, they’re especially nice when you can enjoy puppy kisses when they belong to someone else.
The nicest thing a reader said to you: I made a difference.
The craziest thing a reader said to you: I had a reviewer take me to task for my acknowledgements.
About Lynn:
Lynn Chandler Willis is a best-selling, multi-award-winning author who has worked in the corporate world, the television news industry, and had a thirteen-year run as the owner and publisher of a small-town newspaper. She lives in the heart of North Carolina on a mini-farm surrounded by chickens, turkeys, ducks, nine grandkids, a sassy little calico named Jingles, and Finn, a brown border collie known to be the best dog in the world. Seriously.
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