#WriterWednesday Interview with Tina deBellegarde
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I’d like to welcome author, Tina deBellegarde, to the blog for #WriterWednesday!
Hardest thing about being a writer: Self-promotion. It’s so hard to say to a world full of great writing, Look at me, I’m an author, read me!
Easiest thing about being a writer: When the story and the characters take over. It fascinates me every time and it’s my favorite part of writing. I feel like I’m channeling.
Words that describe you: energetic, optimistic, compulsive problem-solver
Words that describe you, but you wish they didn’t: Short, worrier, insomniac, chatterbox (while also being an introvert)
Favorite foods: Croissants, lemon ice-cream, gnocchi, pizza on the grill, fresh fruit of any kind
Things that make you want to gag: Peach fuzz. It’s making me pucker just writing it.
Favorite music or song: Bossa Nova – It relaxes me under any conditions. I cook to it, I write to it, I clean to it.
Music that drives you crazy: Harpsichord
Favorite beverage: Daytime: Coffee, coffee, coffee. Evening: Bourbon
Something that gives you a sour face: Kiwi, love them and yet…
Something you wish you could do: Sing. My sister has a beautiful voice. Me, not so much. I grew up in a household where my dad sang or whistled all the time. My parents often played music at dinner and my dad would stop his meal to take me, my mom or my sister for a twirl around the kitchen. I could dance, but I couldn’t sing.
Something you wish you’d never learned to do: File taxes and decipher legal documents.
Things you’d walk a mile for: Lemon ice-cream. A ride in a hot air balloon.
Things that make you want to run screaming from the room: Snakes
Things you always put in your books: Music always seems to make it into my stories.
Things you never put in your books: Sex
Things to say to an author: Stick with it.
Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: Do it my way.
Favorite things to do: Writing, cooking, baking, binging old films, sitting in front of a fireplace reading, sitting by the ocean reading, sitting under a tree reading…talking to my husband and son about books and films.
Things you’d run through a fire or eat bugs to get out of doing: Public Speaking
Most embarrassing moment: Playing Betsy Ross in the school play next to my second grade crush Patrick Henry.
Proudest moment: Seeing my son Alessandro off to live in Japan the day after he graduated. I thought he was so courageous and adventurous to just pick up and do that. I was so sad, but I never shed a tear until the plane took off. Sad or not, I was so proud of him. Ten years later he is still there.
Most daring thing you’ve ever done: Take hot air balloon piloting lessons
Something you chickened out from doing: Karaoke. Did I mention I can’t sing?
The coolest person you’ve ever met: A serenading monk at the Daisen-In Zen Temple in Kyoto. When he learned I was from New York, he sang My Way for me.
The celebrity who didn’t look like he/she did in pictures/video: I once passed Mary Tyler Moore on the street walking her dog. She was so completely covered with a scarf, hat and huge dark glasses that I never noticed her. My friend, who was MTM’s neighbor, told me after the fact.
About Tina:
Tina deBellegarde lives in Catskill, New York with her husband Denis and their cat Shelby. Winter Witness is the first book in the Batavia-on-Hudson Mystery Series. Tina also writes short stories and flash fiction. When she isn’t writing, Tina is helping Denis tend their beehives, harvest shiitake mushrooms, and cultivate their vegetable garden. She travels to Japan regularly to visit her son Alessandro. Tina did her graduate studies in history. She is a former exporter, paralegal, teacher, and library clerk. Visit her website for more information and purchase links: www.tinadebellegarde.com
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