10 Interesting Questions Authors Get Asked
Let’s talk about interesting questions authors get asked.
Okay, that’s code for questions that embarrass, insult, or just flabbergast you.
When I was first published, I did a lot of interviews, workshops, speaking engagements, etc. This was back in the print age.
Online interviews are easier because you can usually select the questions you want to answer and do it by writing which, for authors, is often easier than speaking extemporaneously.
In no particular order, here are some of the questions I’ve been asked over the years—usually in person and on the spot. By the way, keep in mind that I write Romance which explains some of these questions. I’ll start with the easy question first.
1. What’s your book about?
2. How much money do you make writing books?
If I had a dollar for every time I’ve been asked that at book signings, interviews, cocktail parties, dinner out with friends, etc. My snappy comeback, “Enought to keep writing.” Or, it they’re really persistent, “Show me your tax return, and I’ll show you mine.”
3. Are you still writing?
4. When are you going to write a real book?This is from literature snobs who think romance is not a “real” book.
Honestly, I’ve been asked that more than once. Ew.
I remember my mother telling me one of her friends had asked her about my first book which had a sex scene in it with euphemisms. She told her friend that I did not write that. “Her editor writes that kind of stuff.”
Two Responses to Adopt/Adapt
(2) “I’m curious as to why you want to pursue this line of questioning. I thought we were going to talk about the way I handle characterization, plot, theme, or (whatever narrative skill you want to toss at them) because I’m sure that’s what the readers in the audience would like to know.”
If you need more help to be prepared, try Powerful Phrases for Dealing With Difficult People who are usually the ones who ask those “interesting” questions.
9. Aren’t romances unrealistic?
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