Author interview with Linda Griffin

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Dragon Soul Press interviewed Linda Griffin, an author in the Apocalypse anthology.

I was born and raised in San Diego, California, and I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else. I earned a BA in English from San Diego State University and an MLA from UCLA and began a career as a reference and collection development librarian for the San Diego Public Library. I enjoy Scrabble, movies, and travel as well as the three R’s—reading, writing, and research.

  1. What prompted you to begin writing?
    • I learned to read. My passion for the printed word
      began with my very first Dick and Jane reader, and as soon as I figured out that
      someone had to create those words, I knew I wanted to be a “book maker” when I grew
      up. I wrote my first story when I was six. I retired to spend more time on my writing, and
      my stories have been published in numerous journals. The Wild Rose Press has
      published nine novels, including The Rebound Effect, Love, Death, and the Art of
      Cooking, and The Axe.
  2. Do you have a favorite story or poem you’ve written? What’s it about?
    • They’re almost all my favorites in different ways, but I’m particularly fond of an as yet unpublished YA novel about a 12-year-old English girl who comes to California to live with the father she’s never met and his volatile lover.
  3. How many projects do you have planned over the next few years? Tell us about one.
    • My current project is publishing some of my novels in audio format, beginning with Love, Death, and the Art of Cooking. It’s a whole new experience for me.
  4. Where do you draw inspiration from?
    • Everywhere. One of the most common story triggers for me is an unanswered question—I have to create a character to answer it. In the case of “The Cockroach Chronicles,” it began with wondering how we would look to cockroaches.
  5. Who is your favorite author / what is your favorite book?
    • This is an impossible question, but a recent favorite is This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch by Tabitha Carvan. Of the classic science fiction novels that eventually led to the writing of “The Cockroach Chronicles,” my favorite was Farmer in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein.
  6. What do you hope readers enjoy most from your work?
    • I just hope they enjoy reading the stories as much as I enjoy writing them.
  7. Where can readers learn more about you?

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