#WriterWednesday Interview with Joyce Woollcott

I’d like to welcome Joyce Woollcott to the blog for #WriterWednesday!

A few of your favorite things: An old cashmere sweater in a lovely shade of peachy orange. A pale grey linen dressing gown. A lovely red Ted Baker evening dress that’s a bit too small for me and too short but I love it anyway. (Never worn.)

Things you need to throw out: Most of my clothes. But, you know, you think… wait, I might wear that again.

Things you need for your writing sessions: Silence, warmth and coffee.

Things that hamper your writing: Music, TV or chat, being cold, uncomfortable chair…

Hardest thing about being a writer: Always having something to do.

Easiest thing about being a writer: Always having something to do.

Favorite foods: Rare roast beef, pasta, most seafood. Sticky toffee pudding, Banoffe Pie.

Things that make you want to gag: Beetroot, turnip, and… liver––obviously.

Favorite music or song: Van Morrison, Astral Weeks. I know it’s sixties, but it’s not the same…

Music that drives you crazy: Country music, and fifties, sixties and seventies commercial pop. (Sorry).

Something you’re really good at: Someone told me once that I have perfect pitch, a statement my husband vigorously disagrees with.

Something you’re really bad at: Singing, which is strange considering my last statement…

Last best thing you ate: Eggplant Parmesan.

Last thing you regret eating: Three mini KitKats from last Halloween. Yes, really.

The last thing you ordered online: A Belstaff Jacket for my husband.

The last thing you regret buying: One of those little square automatic floor washing robots––but not the Rhoomba, I love that.

Favorite books (or genre): I love mysteries, especially stories set in dark rainy places, or Nordic countries.

Books you wouldn’t buy: Not keen on romance, science fiction, fantasy, true crime, heart-wrenching drama.

People you’d like to invite to dinner: Kate Atkinson, David Hockney, Bill Nighy, Brendan Gleeson.

People you’d cancel dinner on: Bill Cosby, Jeremy Clarkson.

Favorite things to do: Sitting in a quiet, sunny garden with a nice glass of wine, reading a good mystery.

Things you’d run through a fire or eat bugs to get out of doing: Root canal––obviously.

The coolest person you’ve ever met: Denise Mina, lovely, friendly and chatty, swore like a trooper. Oh, and Lee Child and Ian Rankin too. And Oprah Winfrey was really nice.

The celebrity who didn’t look like he/she did in pictures/video: Anderson Cooper wasn’t as tall as I had expected. He seemed very shy.

About Her Latest:

BLOOD RELATIONS

Retired Chief Inspector Patrick Mullan is found brutally murdered in his bed. Detective Sergeant Ryan McBride and his partner DS Billy Lamont are called to his desolate country home to investigate. In their inquiry, they discover a man whose career was overshadowed by violence and corruption. Is the killer someone from Mullan’s past, or his present? And who hated the man enough to kill him twice?

Belfast, Northern Ireland: early spring 2017. Retired Chief Inspector Patrick Mullan is found brutally murdered in his bed. Detective Sergeant Ryan McBride and his partner Detective Sergeant Billy Lamont are called to his desolate country home to investigate. In their inquiry, they discover a man whose career with the Police Service of Northern Ireland was overshadowed by violence and corruption. Is the killer someone from Mullan’s past, or his present? And who hated the man enough to kill him twice? Is it one of Patrick Mullan’s own family, all of them hiding a history of abuse and lies? Or a vengeful crime boss and his psychopathic new employee? Or could it be a recently released prisoner desperate to protect his family and flee the country? Ryan and Billy once again face a complex investigation with wit and intelligence, all set in Belfast and the richly atmospheric countryside around it.

About Joyce:

J. Woollcott is a Canadian writer born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers and BCAD, University of Ulster. She is a member of Sisters in Crime, International Thriller Writers and Crime Writers of Canada. In 2019 her first novel, A Nice Place to Die,  won the Romance Writers of America Daphne du Maurier Award for Unpublished Mystery and Suspense. In 2021 she was short-listed in the Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence. This year, A Nice Place to Die is a finalist in the Killer Nashville 2023 Silver Falchion Awards.

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#WriterWednesday Interview with Mo Moshaty

I’d like to welcome Mo Moshaty to the blog for #WriterWednesday.

A few of your favorite things: Making travel plans, writing when it’s rainy ( I get best horror ideas when it’s gloomy)

Things you need to throw out: The half-written in notebooks and journals I know I’m not going to use.

Things you need for your writing sessions: I need to be better at giving myself time to think. G2 Pens, orange highlighter, a hot tea, a wine or martini

Things that hamper your writing: my cellphone ☹

Hardest thing about being a writer: having far too many ideas to get down, I’m big on world-building so its difficult to make that concise

Easiest thing about being a writer: having far too many ideas to get down – it’s a blessing and a curse

Besides writing, what’s the most creative thing you’ve done: helped create a film challenge via Zoom and post pandemic that has been featured on Shudder with three of my colleagues, that recently won a Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award for 2022

A project that didn’t quite turn out the way you planned it: created a dark science fiction horror podcast that was pitched to major studios that deflated in production

Something you’re really good at: Napping 😊

Something you’re really bad at: Getting distracted, and then berating myself for procrastination

Words that describe you: Charming, Inquisitive, Passionate

Words that describe you, but you wish they didn’t: Self-deprecating, overly sensitive

Favorite places you’ve been: London, England

Places you never want to go to again: The ER in Virginia Beach

Most daring thing you’ve ever done: Performed my own original music in London acapella

Something you chickened out from doing: bungee jumping…..a second time!

The funniest thing to happen to you: at my fourth birthday party, I wanted Wonder Woman underoos so badly, and I received them! In my zeal to get them, I tore into my room and put them on, but I stuck myself in one of the leg holes instead of the waistband, I was cutting off my circulation and blacked out.

The nicest thing a reader said to you: That my writing made them cry from it’s beautiful construction

The craziest thing a reader said to you: usually only men write brutal stories like this

Favorite music or song: 80’s and 90s hip hop and dance music

Music that drives you crazy: modern country

Some real-life story that made it to one of your books: Scenes of a past relationship and the disposition of an ex made it into my book, Love the Sinner. Of course, I killed the character. 😊

Something in your story that readers think is about you, but it’s not: Such a tough one. I’ve had someone recently equate me with a character from a short story I had written titled, The Marriage. As Much as I want it to be it isn’t, lol.

About Mo:

Mo Moshaty is a horror writer, lecturer and producer. Flexing her horror acumen, coupled with her additional vocation as a Cognitive Behavioral Therapist, Mo has lectured with Prairie View A&M in Texas as a keynote speaker for Nightmares of Monkeypaw: A Jordan Peele Symposium, with Horror Studies BAFSS Sig for No Return: A Yellowjackets Symposium, with Centre for the History of the Gothic at the University of Sheffield and the University of California for The Whole Damn Swarm: Celebrating 30 Years of Candyman and Final Girls Berlin Film Festival's Brain Binge on Women's Trauma Within Horror Cinema. 

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#WriterWednesday Interview with Luna Rey Hall

I’d like to welcome Luna Rey Hall to the blog for #WriterWednesday.

A few of your favorite things: my dogs, my dogs, my dogs

Things you need to throw out: not my dogs.

Things you need for your writing sessions: either my phone or computer— i don’t write on paper anymore.

Things that hamper your writing: any type of talking, so i go someplace quiet or try to put on music without lyrics.

Favorite music or song: i lean towards indie rock/pop, hip-hop, hyperpop.

Music that drives you crazy: generic stadium country music… like really corporate brewed type stuff.

Favorite beverage: water is the best and always will be.

Something that gives you a sour face: cream soda

Something you’re really good at: writing

Something you’re really bad at: also writing

The last thing you ordered online: probably books... unless food from an app counts

The last thing you regret buying: merchandise from a since cancelled musician

Things you always put in your books: queerness

Things you never put in your books: a happy ending

Favorite places you’ve been: Seaside, Oregon— specifically with all of my friends

Places you never want to go to again: NYC during a busy time of the year

Favorite books (or genre): my all-time favorite books is Black Aperture by Matt Rasmussen and Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith

Books you wouldn’t buy: not a big fan of historical non-fiction? books by bad people. Harry Potter.

The nicest thing a reader said to you: there’s been an endless amount of very generous and pleasant, kind, warm things that readers have said to me over the years but i think the biggest one would be hearing my book is someone’s favorite or that they are grateful i’m in the world.

The craziest thing a reader said to you: “the main character is annoying” — well yeah they are going through a very traumatic experience, and nobody is perfect so accurate.

About Luna:

luna rey hall is a trans non-binary writer. they are the author of four books including "the patient routine". their poems have appeared in The Florida Review, The Rumpus, and Raleigh Review, among others.

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#WriterWednesday Interview with Kate B. Jackson

I’d like to welcome the fabulous Kate B. Jackson (K. B. Jackson) to the blog for #WriterWednesday.

Words that describe you: Optimistic, tenacious, reconciliatory

Words that describe you, but you wish they didn’t: Resting B* Face

Favorite foods: Anything Mexican, Shawarma, sticky toffee pudding

Things that make you want to gag: mushrooms and lima beans

Favorite music or song: I love oldies, but I’ve found there’s a Kelly Clarkson song for any occasion.

Music that drives you crazy: Morrissey and the Smiths. I’m sorry, I just can’t. I almost couldn’t date my husband because he enjoys it.

Favorite beverage: Coke Zero with fresh lime or an extra dirty vodka martini

Something that gives you a sour face: I have no poker face, so anything I don’t like!

Something you’re really good at: solving ancestry mysteries

Something you’re really bad at: sitting in the passenger seat while my kid learns to drive

Last best thing you ate: Diablo tenderloin bites in a spicy Argentinian cream sauce from El Gaucho Steakhouse. I have to restrain myself from licking the plate.

Last thing you regret eating: An entire box of mini Nilla Wafers

Things you’d walk a mile for: Tacos, my family, to fit into a dress. Not necessarily in that order.

Things that make you want to run screaming from the room: rodents, snakes, disrespectful bickering between spouses

Things you always put in your books: Easter eggs. There are specific methods I won’t disclose, but they’re always there.

Things you never put in your books: evil. I want to understand what would drive an average person to kill, so no serial killers or sociopaths.

Things to say to an author: Where do you prefer I leave my review?

Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: I know you’re on deadline but what are you making for dinner?

Favorite places you’ve been: England (York, Bath, and London)

Places you never want to go to again: The emergency room in Willows, CA where I spent several hours after rolling my suburban filled with my 4 kids and all my photo albums across I5 while moving from Socal to Washington State.

Some real-life story that made it to one of your books: An encounter with a raccoon

Something in your story that readers think is about you, but it’s not: I hope my mother doesn’t think Audrey’s mom is based on her, because she absolutely is not!

About Kate:

Kate B Jackson (KB Jackson) is an author of mystery novels for grownups and mystery/adventure novels for kids. She lives in the Pacific NW with her husband and has four mostly grown children. Her debut middle grade release is “The Sasquatch of Hawthorne Elementary” (Reycraft Books) about a twelve-year-old boy hired by the most popular girl at his new school to investigate what she saw in the nearby woods. Book one in the Chattertowne Mysteries series, “Secrets Don’t Sink,” (Level Best Books July 2023) introduces Audrey O’Connell, a small town feature reporter who, when her former boyfriend’s body is found floating in the local marina, uncovers the depths to which some will go to keep secrets submerged.

Her debut novel in the Cruising Sisters mystery series, Until Depths Do Us Part (Tule Publishing) will be released Spring 2024.

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#WriterWednesday Interview with Jamie L. Adams

I’d like to welcome Jamie L. Adams to the blog for #WriterWednesday!

Things you need for your writing sessions: Water, I like to drink a lot of water.

Things that hamper your writing: Phone calls. Sometimes I forget to mute the phone.

Hardest thing about being a writer: Plotting is hard, but the story comes out so much better we you do.

Easiest thing about being a writer: Creating characters is easy and fun. I’ve always been a people watcher and there are a million characters in my head just waiting to get their say.

Words that describe you: Kind and giving are words that describe me.

Words that describe you, but you wish they didn’t: I’m also shy and quiet.

Favorite foods: I love chocolate, pizza and cereal. My taste buds refuse to grow up.

Things that make you want to gag: Shrimp. Everyone in my family loves shrimp but me.

Favorite beverage: I love to drink water.

Something that gives you a sour face: I associate 7Up with being sick.

Something you’re really good at: I’m really good at baking cookies.

Something you’re really bad at: I’m really bad at drawing anything other than stick figures.

Favorite places you’ve been: The Crater of Diamonds in Arkansas.

Places you never want to go to again: Disney World in Florida.

Favorite books (or genre): I love historical romantic fiction and cozy mysteries.

Books you wouldn’t buy: I hate stories where someone is falsely accused.

Favorite things to do: My favorite thing to do is write.

Things you’d run through a fire or eat bugs to get out of doing: I’m terrified of driving in winter weather.

Best thing you’ve ever done: The best thing I’ve done was to follow my heart.

Biggest mistake: Going back for that second degree in college when I had a great job waiting for me.

About Jamie:

Jamie L. Adams fell in love with books at an early age. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott opened her imagination and sparked a dream to be a writer. She wrote her first book as a school project in 6th grade. Living in the Ozarks with her husband, twin daughters, and a herd of cats, she spends most of her free writing, reading, or learning more about the craft near to her heart.

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website: https://www.cozylanternmysteries.com/

#WriterWednesday Interview with Erica Wynters

I’d like to welcome Erica Wynters to the blog for #WriterWednesday.

Things you never want to run out of: Iced Tea and Stevia. Those mixed together are my writing fuel. Let’s face it - they’re my getting through the day fuel.

Things you wish you’d never bought: I am a sucker for Instagram ads and have definitely bought some things I’ve regretted. The main one was a dryer vent cleaning kit that arrived six months after I ordered it, and immediately broke!

A few of your favorite things: I love plants and have way too many in my house. It’s hard for me to walk past a new display at the grocery store without wanting to add to my collection.

Things you need to throw out: Sadly, I have a few plants that are dead and dying, and I probably just need to throw them out, but it’s hard for me to admit defeat.

Things you need for your writing sessions: I’m really lucky that I can manage to write anywhere with any kind of background noise. In fact, I often get the most done on an airplane.

Things that hamper your writing: Instagram! I need to keep my phone far away from me when I’m writing.

Favorite foods: I love Mexican food, and chicken fajitas are my favorite!

Things that make you want to gag: Anything with mushrooms. It’s sad because I know they are so healthy, but I just can’t do it.

Favorite music or song: My thirteen year old daughter has gotten me into Taylor Swift, and we’ve bonded over singing her music at the top of our lungs in the car.

Music that drives you crazy: I can usually find something in almost any genre of music that I can like, but I can’t stand music where the lyrics regrade women. I won’t do it!

Favorite beverage: I already mentioned iced tea, so I’ll add another one. I love a really good root beer.

Something that gives you a sour face: My husband loves kombucha, but I just can’t do it!

Things you always put in your books: My books always have a lot of romance and mystery. That combination is my favorite. I love watching two people fall in love and writing all the swoony moments, but if that’s all a book is, then I get bored. Add in a little danger? A little murder? It’s the perfect combination for me.

Things you never put in your books: I never celebrate anything relationally toxic. I’m a therapist when I’m not writing, and you’ll always read healthy relationships in my books. If someone isn’t a healthy person, it’ll be pointed out, not seen as attractive.

Things to say to an author: I just read your new book and loved it. I’m off to leave a review right now!

Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: I would write too, if I had the time.

Favorite places you’ve been: My favorite place in the whole world is Kaanapali Beach on Maui. I could spend all day floating in those crystal blue waters!

Places you never want to go to again: I love to travel and have different experiences, so this is a hard one. I’ll say this – last year I visited Minnesota in November and the air temperature was eleven degrees with the wind chill below zero. I lived in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Minnesota for the first 33 years of my life, but I do not miss winter. I’ll visit those places in the summer when they’re green and beautiful.

Favorite things to do: I love to travel with my husband. I like big trips, but I also love a weekend away at a new spot we can drive to like Bisbee, Arizona, Idyllwild, California.

Things you’d run through a fire or eat bugs to get out of doing: Camping, which ironically includes fire and bugs. It’s the bugs for me. And the sleeping on the ground.

Most daring thing you’ve ever done: I went bungee jumping at Wisconsin Dells when I was sixteen. Wisconsin Dells is a tourist destination in central Wisconsin and I was there with a bunch of my friends. I was the only one under eighteen and we lied about my age so I could go. No one checked my ID, and I survived. It was so worth it!

Something you chickened out from doing: Last year, I was on Maui with my family, and we had the opportunity to go cliff jumping. Some from our group went, but I didn’t. I was happy to watch and cheer from the water.

Some real-life story that made it to one of your books: Marigolds, Mischief, and Murder is set in a fictional town in rural Illinois called Star Junction. I grew up in a rural, small town in Wisconsin. While there are no specific stories in my book that are taken from my life, there are a lot of details that come from my history. There is a restaurant in the book called Bucky’s and there’s a Bucky’s in the town I grew up in. My main character was on the swim team in high school, and so was I. The biggest thing that translated from my real life into the books is the sense of community that you find in a small, rural town, the way people are willing to help one another out, and the way gossip can spread like wildfire!

Something in your story that readers think is about you, but it’s not: I mentioned the bar/restaurant Bucky’s lives in the book and in my real-life hometown. That was a total accident. I didn’t even remember there was a Bucky’s in my home town until the book came out and people I grew up with started reading it. I got multiple messages about Bucky’s and how I’d used that in my book. How Bucky’s in my book got its name is an interesting story. The book has been through a lot of revisions. At first, the main character, Gwen’s, best from was named Marley. But I had another character named Margie, and my editor said I had to change one. I thought long and hard about it, and changed Gwen’s best friend’s name to Penny. At the time, the bar/restaurant that they go to was named Benny’s. Now I had another problem. I couldn’t have a Benny’s and a Penny, so Benny’s had to go. I made a split section decision to rename the business Bucky’s. I’m sure my subconscious remembered driving past Bucky’s on Main Street in my hometown for all those years, but I didn’t make the connection until the book came out.

About Erica:

Erica Wynters may have lived most of her life in the frigid Midwest, but now she spends her time in the warmth and sunshine of Arizona. She loves hiking, hunting down waterfalls in the desert, reading (of course), and napping. Can napping be considered a hobby? When not weaving tales of mystery with plenty of quirky characters, laughs, and a dash of romance, Erica works as a Marriage and Family Therapist helping others find their Happily Ever Afters.

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#WriterWednesday Interview with Jayne Ormerod

I’d like to welcome one of the best beta readers on the planet and good friend, Jayne Ormerod to the blog today!

Things you never want to run out of: Diet Coke, Wine, and Books.

Things you wish you’d never bought: In an attempt to avoid dog urine spots in my yard, I bought this fire-hydrant-looking thing that supposedly encourages my canine companions to wee-wee in a certain area. I placed it in a no-man’s-land area of mulch. They sniffed it and walked away. It’s still there, testament to my gullible nature.

A few of your favorite things: My comfy sweatshirts, my Crabby wine glasses, and my gardens.

Things you need to throw out: Early printed versions of manuscripts, 100+ rejection letters, and a box of chocolates that got left in a hot car and melted into puddles. But, well, throwing out chocolate is a class-3 felony, isn’t it? (If not, it should be!)

Things you need for your writing sessions: My muses (aka:dogs) at my side. And a really good idea!

Things that hamper your writing: Facebook. ’Nuff said.

Hardest thing about being a writer: Selling books!

Easiest thing about being a writer: Working from the comfort of my La-Z-Boy. Feet up. Music playing. Words flowing!

Words that describe you: Goal-oriented and slightly superstitious.

Words that describe you, but you wish they didn’t: Unathletic and “Fluffy”. (I think the two might be connected?

Favorite foods: Anything from the potato family, be they fries, chips, baked, au gratin, etc.

Things that make you want to gag: Seafood. Just the smell in the grocery store has me scurrying for the odorless cereal aisle.

Favorite smell: Flowers: Gardenias, Magnolias, Honeysuckle, Ligustrums, Lilies!

Something that makes you hold your nose: Collard greens simmering on the stove!

The last thing you ordered online: Construction truck-themed birthday decorations for my grandson’s 2-y/o birthday party.

The last thing you regret buying: A pair of shoes that looked really fun on the web page, but they are bright and garish and fan out in the toe area…think “clown shoes”.

Most daring thing you’ve ever done: Skied down a double black diamond in Banff! (Truth be told I slid on my backside most of it!)

Something you chickened out from doing: Parachuting. No way. Un-unh. Not gonna do it!

The coolest person you’ve ever met: Sue Grafton! So cool! Beyond cool. Amazing person.

The celebrity who didn’t look like he/she did in pictures/video: J.B. Fletcher, of Murder, She Wrote fame. Donald Bain (the actual author, along with his wife Renee Paley-Bain) bear no resemblance to the author photo, that of Angela Lansbury, who of course, played J.B. on the TV show.

Some real-life story that made it to one of your books: The “fire” my son “put out” in my oven, the first time he cooked with my new gas range.

Something in your story that readers think is about you, but it’s not: That I stumble across dead bodies all the time. I do not! Only ever seen one “prettied up” at a funeral.

About Jayne:

Jayne Ormerod writes coastal cozies with a splash of humor. She grew up in a small Ohio town and attended a small-town Ohio college. Upon earning her accountancy degree, she became a CIA (that’s not a sexy spy thing, but a Certified Internal Auditor). She married a naval officer, and off they sailed to see the world. After nineteen moves, they, along with their two rescue dogs Tiller and Scout, settled in a cottage by the Chesapeake Bay. Jayne writes what she knows: small towns with beach settings.  The dead bodies are purely a figment of her imagination. 

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#WriterWednesday Interview with Amy Young

I’d like to welcome Amy Young to the blog for #WriterWednesday!

A few of your favorite things: I love my bookcases in my office (they’re new and I’m obsessed), my yoga mat, and my Apple TV 4K.

Things you need to throw out: Old clothes that don’t fit anymore. I hang onto everything, then I donate it all in one fell swoop. It’s time for a culling.

Things you love about writing: I love being able to tell a story that comes into view in my head. I love coming back to something I wrote the day before and being able to continue the story.

Things you hate about writing: The self doubt. My inner critic is loud and sometimes, I can’t drown it out. I’m an oldest child and, at least for me, that comes with a massive fear of failure.

Words that describe you: Tenacious, loyal, honest

Words that describe you, but you wish they didn’t: Bossy, stubborn, selfish

Favorite beverage: Red wine

Something that gives you a sour face: Kombucha. But I drink it anyway because it’s good for you 😂

Something you’re really good at: Swimming. I’ve been swimming since I could walk and taught lessons for years. I think I’m more at home in the water than I am on land.

Something you’re really bad at: Drawing. Like, painfully bad. Don’t play Pictionary with me.

The last thing you ordered online: A dress from Wolf & Badger that I’ve been eyeing for months. I love that website.

The last thing you regret buying: An Uproot reusable pet hair remover. Seemed like a miracle product; in reality, it tears fabric and carpet unless you’re super careful.

Things you always put in your books: Strong female friendships.

Things you never put in your books: Animal cruelty.

Favorite places you’ve been: Antigua, Vail, Malibu, the Outer Banks.

Places you never want to go to again: Gary, Indiana. That might seem like an odd place to choose; I had to stop for gas there on my way out of Chicago and got lost, and it wasn’t the best experience.

Favorite books (or genre): Thrillers, mysteries, suspense.

Books you wouldn’t buy: Religious books written by someone who is trying to recruit for their religion.

People you’d like to invite to dinner (living): Kevin Smith, Suzy Izzard, Lisa Vanderpump, Andy Cohen.

People you’d cancel dinner on: Any cast member from The Jersey Shore.

Best thing you’ve ever done: Moving to Los Angeles and writing my first book. I didn’t think I’d ever leave Ohio, and I ended up spending a decade in LA.

Biggest mistake: Starting smoking. I’ve long since quit, but if I could go back, I would never take up the habit.

The coolest person you’ve ever met: Bruce Campbell

The celebrity who didn’t look like he/she did in pictures/video: Believe it or not, every celebrity I’ve come in contact with looks exactly like their pictures.

About Amy:

Amy Young is an author, comedian, and actor based in Cleveland. After spending a decade in Los Angeles working in the entertainment industry and writing her debut novel, The Water Tower, she returned to Ohio to be closer to family. Amy is working on her second book, a thriller, and in her free time she enjoys going to the theatre, bingeing reality TV, and spending time with her husband and many, many cats. She has a B.A. in English from Kenyon College.

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