#ThisorThatThursday Author Interview with Natasha Deen
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I’d like to welcome Natasha Deen back to the blog for #ThisorThatThursday!
Things you never want to run out of: Energy, passion, hope
Things you wish you’d never bought: Society’s ideas about what is worthy/valuable
A few of your favorite things: The creatures and people I love
Things you need to throw out: Mindsets that don’t help me.
Easiest thing about being a writer: Saying, “I’m a writer.”
Hardest thing about being a writer: Everything else
Favorite foods: Depends on my mood.
Things that make you want to gag: I don’t know – I guess it’s how the food would be prepared.
Favorite beverage: Tea
Something that gives you a sour face: Sour patch kids
Favorite smell: My home
Something that makes you hold your nose: My excuses
Things you’d walk a mile for: The creatures and people I love
Things that make you want to run screaming from the room: Grumpy wasps (redundant, because they’re ALWAYS grumpy).
Things to say to an author: Anything you like to say, just be respectful
Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: “Hello, I’d like to be fictionally killed off in your next book.”
Besides writing, what’s the most creative thing you’ve done: Baking
A project that didn’t quite turn out the way you planned it: My life
Things you always put in your books: Hope
Things you never put in your books: Please ask me when I’ve written all the books I’ll ever write.
About Natasha:
Guyanese-Canadian NATASHA DEEN is a best-selling author and a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal. Natasha’s novels include In the Key of Nira Ghani (Amy Mather Teen Book Award), Spooky Sleuths: The Ghost Tree (School Library Journal Best Books of 2022). Her most recent YA title, The Signs and Wonders of Tuna Rashad was a Globe & Mail's Top 100 Books for 2022. When she’s not writing, she teaches Introduction to Children’s Writing with the University of Toronto’s SCS and spends an inordinate amount of time trying to convince her pets that she’s the boss of the house. Visit Natasha at www.natashadeen.com.
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