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Interview with Liz
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| Q. | Where do you get your ideas from? | |
| A. | Oh God. I'd better say 'imagination' in case I get into trouble but, erm, some of them are from real life experiences. (Not the horribly embarrassing bits or the bits I could be sued for of course). I will admit though to once putting a vinegar rinse on my hair and smelling like a fish and chip shop all day but that's all. Well OK so I used to practise snogging myself in front of the mirror but who hasn't? Oh right, you've never even thought of doing such a daft thing and I'm a freak? Well, I was only joking, of course. Imagination, all of it. | |
| Q. | Why did someone of your, er, maturity write books for teenagers? | |
| A. | What do you mean, 'old'? Anyway I didn't specifically write the books just for teenagers. In fact if your daughter, niece or wee sister has one of these novels steal it and read it yourself. You'll see what I mean. If they don't, go buy it and pretend it's for them. | |
| Q. | How many books have you written? | |
| A. | 3¾. The first two are the Kelly Ann books 'My Desperate Love Diary' and 'My Now or Never Diary'. The third one, 'Jumping to Confusions', is another teenage comedy (but about different characters this time) and will be published in June this year. I'm in the process of finishing off a fourth book. | |
| Q. | Do you have a favourite time and place to write? | |
| A. | No, I'm totally disorganised. Anyway, most of the time I'm not actually writing, just thinking about it, and usually I'll have worked out characters, plot or dialogue in my head before starting to type. It's kind of hard though to convince my husband that when I'm gazing dreamily out the window, I'm not doing nothing but actually working hard. OK, some of the time I am doing nothing but other times I'm hard at work. Honestly. | |
| Q. | What do you like best about being a writer? | |
| A. | Sneaking into book stores and turning my books face up on the shelves (instead of just having the spine showing) then dashing out again without being detected by the sales assistants. I suspect some of them have got wise to me now though and return my books to their original, almost invisible, position as soon as I'm gone. Spoilsports... | |
| Q. | What are you working on at the moment? | |
| A. | I'm currently finishing off the Kelly Ann prequel to My Desperate Love Diary. Prequels are tricky plot wise because you're constrained by future events you've already written about, however I'm really pleased with this now as I think the Kelly Ann character may be even funnier when a year younger. This year I also hope to spend quality time with my family occasionally. Ah here's my youngest child now. "Gosh son you've grown since I last noticed you. Now go and make yourself dinner, Mummy's busy." | |
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