Interview with Author Derek Haines

Today, Derek Heines gave into my pestering for an interview 🙂 Thanks Derek!

  1. If you could travel in a Time Machine would you go back to the past or into the future? I’d definitely go back in time to when I was about twenty and start this whole adult life thing all over again – with the sublime benefit of absolutely perfect 20:20 hindsight. 

  2. Any other books in the works? Goals for future projects? There are always bits and pieces in the pipeline that somehow manage to remain stubbornly stuck under that wonderful WIP acronym. But I’m hopeful of a sequel to The Sons Of Cleito seeing the light of day at some point this year. Further ahead than that, I’m trying, with the help of a couple of more experienced writers, to perfect the art of adding ‘sighs’ to my extremely rare romantic passages. I really believe that using sighing is a writing skill I need to acquire. 
  1. What TV show do you watch that you’d be embarrassed to admit? I don’t watch much TV, but I shamelessly admit to being deeply and madly in love with Morticia Addams. Our relationship started when I was about ten years old and has continued, unrequited and unabated to this very day. 

  2. In your wildest dreams, which author would you love to co-author a book with? Harpo Marx. I really think he would have had a lot to say.

  3. If you could take over the world, would you? No way. It’s such a mess. I’d rather take over the moon and start from scratch. 
  1. Do you prefer to write in silence or with music? Shhh! I’m writing.

  2. Something your readers would never guess about you? I can’t type and I can’t spell. Minor handicaps for a writer, but nevertheless, quite annoying.
  1. If you weren’t a human, what would you be? This question appears to assume that I am indeed human, so perhaps it would be best if I simply refused to answer it on the grounds that it may incriminate me. Or even worse, that it may alert Special Agent Fox Mulder back into action
  1. What’s your favorite word? I rather like using the word rather, rather a lot. Such a useful word. It’s just a pity that I have to delete it rather often.
  1. What books do you love that don’t get a lot of hype? Books written by Enid Blyton. I love them, but the rest of the world seems to have forgotten about her. Then there is science fiction. Well, one day the literary world just might class it as a mainstream genre.
  1. How many books are in your TRB pile? One, and I’m reading it – I’m reading Every Time We Say Goodbye by Collette Caddle. I obsessively do not have a yet to be read list. I like to finish one book, and then go on a fun filled hunt for my next.
  1. Do your friends or enemies ever find themselves in your books? All characters appearing in my works are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental – mostly. 
  1. Where is your favorite spot to write? Horizontal.
  1. What drives you insane about the writing process? That my fingers always type ‘teh’ when I want to write the. It’s teh frequency of it that drives me nuts.
  1. What is your favorite part of the writing/publishing process? When I type, ‘The End’, and manage to spell it correctly.

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  1. Anonymous

    I really loved answers, 5, 6, 9, 12, 13, and 14. Good answers. ^^

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