Rosy Thornton is a talented author of Women's Fiction. Have a chance to win her third novel, Crossed Wires, which has just come out in paperback, by posting a comment! The winner shall be drawn from a hat and announced this coming Friday, 1st May. (Sorry, Strictly Writers are not eligible!)
Who is your literary hero?
Harriet Vane from Dorothy L Sayers’s Lord Peter Wimsey novels.
Which 3 writers, living or dead, would you invite to dinner?
Elizabeth Gaskell, Simone de Beauvoir and Maya Angelou – three women who’d really set the world to rights.
What's your favourite writing snack?
I have a fetish for dried mango at the moment – texture like shoe leather but tastes like heaven.
Longhand first or computer?
Computer – but I do jot things down on old shopping receipts sometimes, when waiting at red traffic lights.
Win Booker prize or land Hollywood film deal?
Both, please!
Daily Mail or The Times?
Neither. Not really a tabloid girl, and I won’t buy a Murdoch newspaper!
Independent bookshop or Amazon?
Huge guilt trip, this question. I know what the answer ought to be, but Amazon is so easy.
Left on a cliffhanger or told all?
Cliffhanger – or at least a nice, muddy ending.
You really must read…
Anything by Barbara Trapido.
My biggest tip for a fiction writer is…
Don’t be too hidebound by ‘the rules’ – relax and find your own voice.
I am inspired by...
People and their endlessly entertaining foibles.
Writing - a hobby, passion or unhealthy obsession?
A bit of all three.
My proudest writing moment so far has been...
Being compared to Barbara Pym.
My family thinks my writing is...
A bit annoying, because they’d rather I were playing Cluedo.
The worst thing about writing is...
There never being enough time to do it!
Harriet Vane from Dorothy L Sayers’s Lord Peter Wimsey novels.
Which 3 writers, living or dead, would you invite to dinner?
Elizabeth Gaskell, Simone de Beauvoir and Maya Angelou – three women who’d really set the world to rights.
What's your favourite writing snack?
I have a fetish for dried mango at the moment – texture like shoe leather but tastes like heaven.
Longhand first or computer?
Computer – but I do jot things down on old shopping receipts sometimes, when waiting at red traffic lights.
Win Booker prize or land Hollywood film deal?
Both, please!
Daily Mail or The Times?
Neither. Not really a tabloid girl, and I won’t buy a Murdoch newspaper!
Independent bookshop or Amazon?
Huge guilt trip, this question. I know what the answer ought to be, but Amazon is so easy.
Left on a cliffhanger or told all?
Cliffhanger – or at least a nice, muddy ending.
You really must read…
Anything by Barbara Trapido.
My biggest tip for a fiction writer is…
Don’t be too hidebound by ‘the rules’ – relax and find your own voice.
I am inspired by...
People and their endlessly entertaining foibles.
Writing - a hobby, passion or unhealthy obsession?
A bit of all three.
My proudest writing moment so far has been...
Being compared to Barbara Pym.
My family thinks my writing is...
A bit annoying, because they’d rather I were playing Cluedo.
The worst thing about writing is...
There never being enough time to do it!
