Episode 23 Conversations over Milk & Cookies - Stevie Turner
Welcome to Episode 23 of Conversations over Milk & Cookies hosted by Kindle Ninja.
What is this madness, you ask? It's my way of supporting indie authors (some of them are members of the RAVE REVIEWS BOOK CLUB).
We interact with them everyday, directly through tweets, or indirectly through re-tweets, but we don't really know much about them. Their personalities really don't shine through in 140 characters.
All the EPISODES of Conversations over Milk & Cookies can be found HERE. Or you can just look to your right and you'll find the Quick Links.
Let's get to know Stevie in more than 140 characters, shall we?
** Green Tea and Lemon Cake were served in this episode because Stevie is allergic to milk and cookies.
KINDLE NINJA: Welcome to Conversations over Milk and Cookies.
Green Tea and Lemon Cake. Do you agree
that there’s a particular sadness in lemon cake?
There would only be sadness present if one could not obtain any.
Writers
are very interesting (and sometimes quirky) people with strange rituals. What
is your strange writing ritual?
Because I tend to sit and write for a long time, I always go for
at least a half hour walk before I start.
What
would you consider as your 15 mins of fame?
The time recently when A House Without Windows made it into the
top 100 bestsellers in the Amazon.co.uk Crime/Suspense/Kidnapping section. I think its presence in said category might
have even topped 15 minutes too.
How
important is the choice of character names in your novel (or any novel for that matter)
Quite important for me. I
like down-to-earth characters in real situations with unaffected names. As soon as I see handles like Skylar or
Tyriona it turns me off straight away!
If your novel “The Porn Detective” would be made
into a movie, who do you want to play the main character/s?
I think Kristin Scott Thomas would make an excellent Frances,
and likewise Daniel Day-Lewis for Martin.
Rhona would need to be somebody quirky; Julie Walters would fit the bill
there.
And
who will direct the movie?
Roger Michell.
How do you feel about doughnuts without
holes?
You’re asking somebody comfortable with eating mainly healthy
food with the odd foray into lemon cake.
As far as I’m concerned, the best bit about a doughnut is its
hole.
What’s the book you wished you’d written?
The Go-Between by L.P Hartley. I wish I’d written ‘The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.’
What’s
the book that positively shaped you?
I read through it again recently when I was writing A House
Without Windows, and I incorporated it into the story. It was Enid Blyton’s ‘Island of Adventure’.
It started a love of reading when I was a young child that has fortunately
never gone away.
Actor
you’d take to the movies. What movie?
Robert Redford, my all-time favourite actor. I’d happily sit with him and watch his
younger beautiful self in one of my favourite films ‘Out of Africa’.
What would you rather be doing now? (instead
of answering these questions).
Writing my sixth novel.
What do you do to decompress?
Walk about in the countryside where I live. I love to hear the birds singing and feel the
sunshine on my face.
What
bizarre food have you eaten?
I have various food allergies and am not particularly
adventurous when it comes to trying new foods.
I once wound up my husband and sons and gave them a saucer of pumpkin
seeds as a starter (I put them on porridge).
My sons gave them the evil eye and enquired as to what had to be done
with them, and my husband wondered if I had recently purchased a parrot.
If we
were to raid your fridge, what would we find in there?
Living lettuce, watercress, tomatoes, cucumber, soya milk, soya
yoghurts, soya margarine (I’m allergic to dairy produce), turkey slices, ham,
broccoli, carrots, pod peas, cabbage, fruit juices, low-sugar strawberry jam,
low-fat mayonnaise and salad cream, new potatoes, jacket potatoes, and slices
from a roast chicken I cooked yesterday.
What’s in your purse right now?
Many coins weighing it down, a couple of tenners, the
prescription card for my new glasses, a supermarket receipt, an AA card in case
my car breaks down, and a Hard Rock Café card that lets me go to the front of
the queue.
On a scale of 1 to 10, how excited are you
about life right now?
When you get to my age (56) it’s more about being fulfilled and
satisfied with your life, rather than excited.
Writing fulfils me, my marriage is stable, there’s a fourth grandchild
coming soon, and I can still walk about without my knees giving way.
Nicholas Sparks or Dan Brown?
Nicholas Sparks definitely.
J.K. Rowling or Stephenie Meyer?
Neither I’m afraid. Only
real life stories interest me.
Ninjas or Porn Detectives?
A Ninja has definitely got to be a better way of living than
being a porn detective. In fact, even being a dead Ninja is better than being a
porn detective!
Thanks, Stevie!
Stevie just published her latest novel, 'NO SEX PLEASE, I'M MENOPAUSAL'
You can follow her on Twitter: @StevieTurner6
Visit her website: http://www.stevie-turner-author.co.uk
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