I would like to welcome the fabulous Lorie Lewis Ham back to the blog for #ThisorThat Thursday!
Favorite thing to do when you have free time: Watch TV with my kids or go to a coffee shop and read.
The thing you’ll always move to the bottom of your to do list: Anything involving calling people. I do not like talking on the phone.
Things you need when you’re in your writing cave: Notebooks and pens for jotting down thoughts that come to me as I write and good coffee!
Things that distract you from writing: Noise, phone calls, and pets wanting to be fed lol.
Hardest thing about being a writer: Waiting for those first reviews hoping readers like your book!
Easiest thing about being a writer: Coming up with the basic ideas for a book usually come pretty easily for me.
Things you will run to the store for at midnight: Pepsi!
Things you never put on your shopping list: Fresh fish. I love eating it but can’t get myself to make it.
The coolest thing you’ve bought online: A replica of Excalibur.
The thing you wished you’d never bought. The second car we bought after we were married. I can’t even remember what it was but it was in the shop all the time!
Favorite snacks: I love Snickerdoodles, Bugles, and pretzels.
Things that make you want to gag: Ketchup on eggs and sweet pickle relish.
Something you’re really good at: Interviewing people.
Something you’re really bad at: Drawing.
Something you wanted to be when you were a kid: I have always wanted to be a writer for as long as I can remember.
Something you do that you never dreamed you’d do: Publish my own magazine.
Something you wish you could do: Write for TV.
Something you wish you’d never learned to do: This is really tough—maybe prepare my own taxes? It is a nightmare doing it every year but it’s too expensive to pay someone.
Last best thing you ate: Parmesan/Garlic wings at Wingstop.
Last thing you regret eating: A really spicy chicken wing lol.
Things to say to an author: I really loved your last book and can’t wait for the next one.
Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: You really should have done this in your book (insert some sort of criticism that shows you do not have a clue about this type of book)
Favorite places you’ve been: Santa Cruz, CA—I love the ocean.
Places you never want to go to again: Needles, CA—I hate the desert.
Favorite things to do: Read, travel, watch TV, and hang out in coffee shops.
Things you’d run through a fire or eat bugs to get out of doing: I hate yardwork!
Most daring thing you’ve ever done: When I was newly married, I had never driven any farther than about an hour away and was kind of nervous about driving. Back then I was traveling and singing (I used to sing gospel music) and at the last minute my ride bailed, and I had to go this city on the coast that required driving over some mountains (I am terrified of heights), and I had no choice but to drive myself. Scared me to death! I still hate driving in the mountains, but I have pretty much driven all over the state now many times.
Something you chickened out from doing: I had the chance to do a phone interview with Rob Bell, who is one of my favorite non-fiction authors and speakers and the combination of hating talking on the phone and being afraid I would just blank since I’m such a fan, I asked if I could do an email interview instead.
The most exciting thing about your writing life: Opening the first box of a brand new book that I have written!
The one thing you wish you could do over in your writing life: Sign a contract with my first publisher—they ended up being a nightmare! I wish I would have kept looking until I found a good one.
The nicest thing a reader said to you: I couldn’t put your book down!
The craziest thing a reader said to you: Your characters eat too much.
Best piece of advice you received from another writer: Never give up.
Something you would tell a younger you about your writing: Write what you want to write, don’t worry about trends or rules because they are always changing.
Recommendations for curing writer’s block: Just sit down and write even if you throw it all out it can help you get going again.
Things you do to avoid writing: I never do anything to avoid writing mysteries, but I am really bad about putting off my non-fiction writing until the last minute lol. Clean, run errands, watch TV.
