#ThisorThatThursday Author Interview with W. L. Hawkin
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I’d like to welcome W. L. Hawkin to the blog for #ThisorThatThursday!
A few of your favorite things: my rock collection, cobalt blue glass, old photographs and journals
Things you need to throw out: most of my old journals and half of the old photographs
Things you need for your writing sessions: my laptop and my couch or bed
Things that hamper your writing: background noise so, no, I don’t write in coffee shops
Hardest thing about being a writer: having to market my books.
Easiest thing about being a writer: writing my books
Favorite foods: sushi or Thai
Things that make you want to gag: overripe banana
Favorite music or song: acoustic guitar
Music that drives you crazy: opera
The last thing you ordered online: wide-legged black pants with rainbow bottoms for PRIDE. They’re so cool!
The last thing you regret buying: a vinyl canopy that was impossible to return because unbeknownst to me it shipped from India. I sold it on marketplace after many heated emails back and forth with the original seller.
Things you always put in your books: a kiss that takes your breath away
Things you never put in your books: rape
Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: “I don’t want to read your book. I don’t read fiction or watch television.” *shrug or eye roll (subtext: “I judge your book (which I refuse to try) beneath my intellectual, literary level.”
Favorite places you’ve been: the west coasts of Ireland, Scotland, Canada; Nova Scotia; The Yucatan; Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Places you never want to go to again: big cities like New York, Chicago, or Detroit
Favorite books (or genre): I honestly love the Harry Potter series
Books you wouldn’t buy: anything I can borrow from the library
Besides writing, what’s the most creative thing you’ve done: photography
A project that didn’t quite turn out the way you planned it: I always wanted to do mixed media on canvas until I did
Some real-life story that made it to one of your books: I heard a story about a man who disappeared from a small town in Scotland and returned as a woman. That made me wonder what it would be like to grow up gay there, and that changed my story completely.
Something in your story that readers think is about you, but it’s not: There are several good sex scenes in my Hollystone Books. They are not about me. Just sayin’
About W. L.:
I live, work, and play on the unceded territory of the Wei Wai Kum First Nation, now called Campbell River. This bountiful land is the soul of the People who have lived here since Time Immemorial. I'm a grateful guest and steward of this beautiful space.
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