#ThisorThatThursday Author Interview with Thomas Burns

I’d like to welcome author, Thomas Burns, to the blog for #ThisorThatThursday!

A few of your favorite things: I love my wife and kids, cats, dogs, my garden, and Tai chi.

Things you need to throw out: Nothing. You always need it after you throw it out!

Things you need for your writing sessions: Scrivener, the Internet, my PC

Things that hamper your writing: People, phone calls, errands

Things you love about writing: I create people and worlds, and I learn something new every day.

Things you hate about writing: Nothing.

Things you never want to run out of: Coffee, ammo, or enthusiasm.

Things you wish you’d never bought: The Samsung refrigerator in my kitchen.

Favorite foods: Eggplant, chili peppers, sushi.

Things that make you want to gag: Not much. I haven’t tried Icelandic rotten shark, though.

Favorite music or song: Classical music. Wagner is my favorite composer, and the violin is my favorite instrument.

Music that drives you crazy: A few popular songs that you hear on tapes played in public places. I don’t know their names, but I know them when I hear them.

Something you’re really good at: Writing, science, cooking.

Something you’re really bad at: Dancing, fixing things, suffering fools gladly.

Something you wish you could do: Fly a plane.

Something you wish you’d never learned to do: Nothing. Any skill can be useful at some time.

Things you always put in your books: Love, honor, family,

Things you never put in your books: I’ll put anything necessary to the story, even if it’s distasteful. I even killed the cat once.

Favorite places you’ve been: France, Ireland, New York City.

Places you never want to go to again: Catholic school.

Favorite books (or genre): Atlas Shrugged, Moby Dick, Sherlock Holmes

Books you wouldn’t buy: I’ll read just about anything.

Favorite things to do: Read, write, eat.

Things you’d run through a fire or eat bugs to get out of doing: Talking to people in the morning before I’ve had my coffee, meetings, arguing with an idiot

The nicest thing a reader said to you: Readers talk to you?

The craziest thing a reader said to you: See above.

About Thomas:

Thomas A. Burns, Jr. is the author of the Natalie McMasters Mysteries. He was born and grew up in New Jersey, attended Xavier High School in Manhattan, earned B.S degrees in Zoology and Microbiology at Michigan State University and a M.S. in Microbiology at North Carolina State University. He currently resides in Wendell, North Carolina. As a kid, Tom started reading mysteries with the Hardy Boys, Ken Holt and Rick Brant, and graduated to the classic stories by authors such as A. Conan Doyle, Dorothy Sayers, John Dickson Carr, Erle Stanley Gardner and Rex Stout, to name a few. Tom has written fiction as a hobby all of his life, starting with Man from U.N.C.L.E. stories in marble-backed copybooks in grade school. He built a career as technical, science and medical writer and editor for nearly thirty years in industry and government. Now that he's truly on his own as a novelist, he's excited to publish his own mystery series, as well as to contribute stories about his second most favorite detective to the MX Books of New Sherlock Holmes Stories.

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