T.H.Reviews -- Thank you for agreeing to talk to us! You're our very first author interview! To start off, we have a somewhat sticky issue we've been debating on Toad Hill, perhaps you can give us your vote -- Twizzlers or red vines?
S.A.Bodeen -- Red vines, because they come in gallon buckets at Costco.
T.H.Reviews -- Thank you very much for your vote. Now to the serious stuff. So, on Toad Hill, there's always the either the sound of flies whizzing merrily about, or jolly looking toads croaking their songs while we're reading. What kind of sounds are in the background when you read?
S.A.Bodeen -- My cat Ficus purring.
T.H.Reviews -- A lot of authors seem to have cats. How did you get Ficus?
S.A. Bodeen -- Some kid brought kittens to my daughter's soccer game in a shoe box and I couldn't resist. But I think she got taken away from her mom too soon, because she always nurses on this one blanket we have. ( And she's three!)
T.H.Reviews -- Did you always want to be a writer?
S.A.Bodeen -- Yes, always. Well, since 3rd grade anyway. That's when I starting practicing my signature.
T.H.Reviews -- If you were told you had forty minutes left to live, what would you do? (for example, gorge yourself on donuts, run for a secret underground compound)
S.A.Bodeen -- Probably have the biggest bacon cheeseburger I could find and not even think about how bad it is for my arteries...
T.H.Reviews -- If your mind was hijacked by evil Thompers, tiny, indestructible figures, and they stole every single memory in your head, except for one, which memory would you want the last one to be?
S.A.Bodeen -- Dancing gooney birds on Midway Island. When my daughters were 7 and 9, we moved out to Midway Island, home of over half a million albatross. And they have a dance they do which is just incredible to watch. And deafening, some people slept with earplugs because the gooney birds were so loud.
T.H.Reviews -- Okay so . . . Eleven tiny little figures, sleek and steel and miniscule are rushing towards you, robotic limbs moving in crisp, sharp motions, coming closer and closer by the very second, armed with evil aapaepa MUSH CAPS, little Thomper eyes flashing red and purple, red and purple . . . there isn't much time . . .
S.A.Bodeen -- . . . You know what will happen if they catch you. Deep down you know, because you've been warned your entire life, but you try not to think about that as you start to run. Screams catch in your throat as you feel something brush your naked calf . . .
T.H.Reviews -- And now, the ever-so-artful theft of a 3 Evil Cousins question: the famous create-your-own-question question!
S.A.Bodeen -- Other than being an author, what is your dream job?
S.A.Bodeen -- dream job to me would be to get paid to read books. Now that would be heaven.
T.H.Reviews -- What is your favorite book now, and how has it changed since you were a tween?
S.A.Bodeen -- My favorite right now is Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. The main character is a true book lover, so maybe my choices haven't changed that much, because I was always drawn to books whose characters loved books. Or maybe I'm imagining that, because all the childhood favorites I'm thinking of don't really have books in them at all. Hmmm. Let's just say I still love to read as much as I ever did, maybe more.
T.H.Reviews -- Do you remember any of the specific books you loved as a tween?
S.A.Bodeen -- I was a big fan of Judy Blume, the Narnia books, the Zanballer series by R.R. Knudson, and then I started reading Stephen King and it was all over....
T.H.Reviews -- You have written several picture books. I notice you're the mother to teens now -- did they inspire you to write The Compound, your first book for YA?
S.A.Bodeen -- Yes. I mean, they weren't inspiration for the psychopath, but I definitely wanted to write something for their age group, like I had done when they were younger. And it was pretty cool to have my oldest daughter be one of my first readers.
T.H.Reviews -- What three pieces of advice would you give to an aspiring writer?
S.A.Bodeen -- 1. Read as much as you can. 2. Write as much as you can. 3. Never ever give up.
T.H.Reviews -- Thank you so much for your time. And for our last question, we just have to know . . . Frogs or toads?
S.A.Bodeen -- Ah, toads of course. Warts and all . . .
1 comments:
Congratulations on your first interview. Great job!
Yours truly,
Twyla Lee
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