Remember how late night ghost stories had you jumping at every shadow and sent you diving under the covers with every bump, scratch and screech in the night? Or how about those legends that took you away on a magical adventure where you overcame unimaginable obstacles to save the day?Blog: http://www.tlgray.blogspot.com/
More than likely, it was someone like author T.L Gray who told you the tales that got your imagination so stirred. The only difference, this spinner of tales has decided to write those stories down so everyone else can share in the experience.
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If you could travel in a Time Machine would you go back to the past or into the future?
I’d choose the past. I don’t like knowing what the future holds, because I like to experience each new day and forge my own path. I’d love to visit the past, mostly to see how much our historians and storytellers got it right or wrong.
What is one book everyone should read?
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen – everyone should at least once in their lifetime read a good love story.
If you were a superhero what would your name be?
T.L. Storyteller – I’d be like the old bards and tell the grand adventures, instilling the idea of heroism and bravery.
If you could have any superpower what would you choose?
The ability to increase the imagination. This world would be extremely bland without a good, healthy imagination. THEN, nothing is impossible.
Night owl, or early bird?
Early Bird – First I get my body moving and my blood pumping through exercise, while at the same time reading the latest adventure on my Kindle. These two in conjunction with each other get my brain and creative ideas flowing – making what I can get written or accomplished in the day ahead of me more than possible.
What inspired you to want to become a writer?
A world without a great adventure seemed unbearable, and I seemed to have a knack at story-telling. Writing just came natural to me, like breathing.
What's one piece of advice you would give aspiring authors?
Read, read, read and keep reading. It’s the greatest teaching tool for every writer. Never give up. Keep chasing that dream as if you were dying of thirst and it’s the only thing that will quench it.
Can you see yourself in any of your characters?
A part of me is buried deep in all of them.
What's the best advice anyone has ever given you?
Love yourself, you’re precious.
You have won one million dollars what is the first thing that you would buy?
I would start my own publishing company.
If someone wrote a book about your life, what would the title be?
Unbelievable.
Finish the sentence- one book I wish I had written is....
Harry Potter series. I’d love to have been Harry’s mother. I see myself as a mother to all my characters and stories, and that one I am so proud to have been just a glimpse. J.K. is surely very proud of her children.
If you had 24 hours alone ho
7 Comments on Author Interview & Book Giveaway: Milledgeville Misfit by T.L. Gray, last added: 2/20/2012
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Hi Kathy, this is a great interview. I love your blog, and am a new follower! :)
Mind checking out my blog?
Jessica from Booked Up!
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You won a Smart Cookie award from Chick Lit Central! Congrats! http://chicklitcentraltheblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/c-is-for-cookieand-chick-lit.html
Hi T.L.
I enjoyed your interview. I agree that sleeping when it rains is great. I like to sleep at night when raining with maybe a few thunder claps. lol Can't wait to read your book.
Thanks for stopping by to chat and share with us.
Thanks for the giveaway and opportunity to enter.
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I forgot to say there was no space to put my FB Like name so here it is (Brenda B. Hill)
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Follow T.L. `s blog gfc(Lori Thomas)
Sounds like a very interesting story
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I lived in Macon GA for two yrs. and there was a place called Milledgeville not too far away. I think they had an institution there. Are you possibly a Georgia resident?
I'd love to win the book.
salter8jeff[at]yahoo[dot]com
Thanks for entering! Good luck to everyone. Yes, I'm a Georgia native. Lived in MANY different places, but eventually I made my way back to Georgia. Never lived in Milledgeville, but all of my life the town has been the catalyst and inspiration to most of the scary stories shared in childhood. Every area has it's ghost town - this just happens to be mine, and hopefully yours too!