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One on One with Nancy Christie - Part II

"For a long time I worried whether or not people were going to take me seriously as a writer, if I would earn their respect, and I think it did more harm than good. You can’t control what other people think, and even the most well-respected and lauded authors have their detractors, sometimes vocal and angry ones. You can’t please everyone.

Now I feel like success is defined by how much fun I’m having. If it’s not fun for me, I’m not going to do it anymore."

Thank you to Nancy Christie at the One on One blog for inviting me to the site during October.

One on One with Nancy Christie - Part I

"The books that really touched me as a kid were works of historical fiction (the Little House on the Prairie books) and speculative fiction (The Lord of the Rings, etc.), and I still have a lot of love for stories in those genres, though later on I was influenced hugely by realist authors like Marilynne Robinson, Alice Munro, Ian McEwan, and absurdists like George Saunders and John Kennedy Toole.

I’m a bit restless as a reader, and I think that carries over to my work as a writer. I love to read nearly every kind of fiction, so I’d like to be able to write every kind of fiction. It’s probably not a smart move on my part, but I’m starting to think my books are all going to be completely different from each other."

Thank you to Nancy Christie for inviting me to the One on One blog during October.