#ThisorThatThursday Author Interview with Pamela Webber

I’d like to welcome author, Pamela Webber to the blog today for #ThisorThatThursday.

Things you need for your writing sessions: My computer, a notepad, and pencil

Things that hamper your writing: Necessary housework

Things you love about writing: Creating characters that become friends, settings that are life-like, and storylines that resonate with readers.

Things you hate about writing: Jumping through the hoops of publishing and marketing
Words that describe you: Loyal. Ethical. Questioning.

Words that describe you, but you wish they didn’t: Direct

Favorite music or song: All genres

Music that drives you crazy: Songs without a melody

Things you’d walk a mile for: A really good cup of coffee.

Things that make you want to run screaming from the room: Fanaticism of any kind.

Things you always put in your books: Life lessons I want my children and grandchildren to know long after
I’m gone.

Things you never put in your books: Overt sex. Books can be sensual and deal with sex related issues in fascinating ways without being graphic.

Favorite places you’ve been: Just about anywhere in the US, Spain, Africa/Botswana, Europe, Bermuda
Places you never want to go to again: Africa/Namibia. Beautiful place, but we were there during protests against a corrupt government.

Favorite books (or genre): To Kill a Mockingbird
Books you wouldn’t buy: Fifty Shades of Gray

Things that make you happy: My family, all of them.
Things that drive you crazy:  Being told by anyone how I should feel and react.

Best thing you’ve ever done: Marrying my wonderful husband
Biggest mistake: Underestimating evil people.

Most daring thing you’ve ever done: I spent a month in Peru at a deep Amazon research station and hiking the Inca trail to Machu Pichu.
Something you chickened out from doing: Skydiving.

The nicest thing a reader said to you: A reader compared my debut novel, The Wiregrass, to To Kill a Mockingbird, Tom Sawyer, and Of Mice and Men.

The craziest thing a reader said to you: A PETA member took me to task that one of my characters put an out of control cat in a mailbox, even though the cat was fine.

About Pamela:

Pam Webber is author of the bestselling debut Southern novel, The Wiregrass, a Historical Novels Review
Editors’ Choice, and Read of the Month at Southern Literary Review. Her second novel, Moon Water, which was released in August garnered both of these honors as well. An invited panelist for Virginia Festival of the Book, Pam has also published extensively in nursing and is an award-winning educator and family nurse practitioner. She and her husband, Jeff, live in the Northern Shenandoah Valley.

Let’s Be Social:
Author website: https://pamwebber.com

Facebook: @authorpamwebber

Twitter: @pamwebber1

Instagram: @pbwebber1

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YouTube: Pam Webber on YouTube