Joelle Anthony Interview (my first interview as a writer!)

I recently had the pleasure of asking author, Lacey Greenwood, the Friday Five questions. Her debut novel, AFFIRMATIONS, is available now at Amazon, Borders, Barnes & Noble and other bookstores. This California writer, born and raised in Los Angeles, likes to blog about her writing here www.writergal9.blogspot.com and for a side project, she's an assistant at the PR firm of Eileen Koch & Co. She also took on an independent client, rock band Abysmal Crucifix.

Q. What’s on your iPod or CD player?

A. Michael Bublé, Diana Krall, Sarah McLachlan, Jewel. Broadway show tunes, some opera.

Q. Do you eat right, get plenty of exercise, sleep eight hours or do you sit in front of your computer and write all the time?

A. I am a physical fitness nut, which is why I'm in great shape and gave that character trait to Nefertari in my novel. Though it's hard to do that when you’re writing and juggling a full time job, I've managed to make time every day to exercise, and I always eat right.

Q. What do you read in the bathroom?

A. J.Crew catalogs, fashion mags. As a former glamour model, I find it interesting to see when photographers, advertising firms, or modeling agencies value sculpted, muscular physiques in women over the traditional skeleton look.

Q. Where do you see yourself in ten years?

A. Successful career in writing, communications and/or marketing; married, kids and an MBA.

Q. Do you use an outline when you write or just let it flow?

A. I just let it flow. No use using an outline, since you’re going to make lots of changes anyway. For example, I never intended Nefertari, one of the characters in my debut novel to be from a drug family, even though my own family [the successful Madera cartel of La Jolla, California] were drug dealers who were taken down in 1989 after a months-long operation revealing intimate details about the way the business operated.. I just decided to let it happen because I thought that diversity would make it more interesting.

Thanks, Lacey for being our first author interview (except me, of course!).

Courtesy of Joelle Anthony