What is your writing beverage of choice? My beverage of choice: Iced Soy Chai. My favorite chais are Tazo and Stash, plus whatever they use for the vanilla chai up at the Aloha Theater in Kainaliu. Sadly, they’re not open all morning or I’d be up there
READ MORE →“Tell us how you feel about genre vs. literary,” says a reassuring voice with a light Viennese accent. The lights are dim. The Persian rug on the floor is red with an elaborate pattern of what look like flowers. The chaise is oxblood leather. The patient shifts
READ MORE →What’s your favorite scene your editor asked you to cut? OK, who of us has NOT been looking forward this question? We finally get to pull out that stuff we always wanted to show. I tend to write in a skeletal form and add layers, so my
READ MORE →If you couldn’t write, what would your creative outlet be? As a writer, I love telling stories with words. Taking that away would be very difficult for me. Assuming I had to do something else, I would tell stories with pictures and sounds. I would be a
READ MORE →What big name author is enough to get you to a conference? By Rebecca Cantrell I thought I was going to be the first curmudgeon of the week, but CJ beat me to it. She’s right though. I don’t go to conferences hoping to meet big name
READ MORE →If you were to write a nonfiction book, what would your topic be? As a technical writer I wrote literally thousands of nonfiction pages. I mean, I thought they were nonfiction while I was writing them, or that they would one day be nonfiction. Because I wrote
READ MORE →What fictional attorney would you hire to represent you if you ever get caught? I’d go straight for Perry Mason. He’s never lost a case, and I like that track record. He’s definitely gotten defendants out of tighter pinches than the one I’d be in. It’ll be
READ MORE →Here’s my blog post on it on the New York Times parenting blog: http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/parenting-can-make-you-better-at-work/?scp=1&sq=rebecca%20cantrelll&st=cse Somebody had to say it: parenting is a lot of fun!
READ MORE →Which character would I spin off from my series? by Rebecca Cantrell Finally a question that gives historical writers an unfair advantage! I can jump forward in time, so I can spin off even the children. And that’s just whom I would pick. In A TRACE OF
READ MORE →A series should always be a trilogy. Who has ever heard of a du-ology? And bi-ology is something quite different. What about a quadrology? Pentology? Nope. Clearly if there is no word for it, it just can’t be. And trilogy is a versatile term. “The Hitchhiker’s Guide
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