Sarah Stewart Taylor
Author Interview - Sarah Stewart Taylor
Author I draw inspiration from: I love A.S. Byatt's novel Possession and even though it's a literary mystery rather than a murder one, I always try to incorporate into my detectives' searches a sense of discovery and curiosity, a desire to understand who people actually were and what and who they cared about.
Author Interview - Sarah Stewart Taylor
Favorite place to read a book: Curled up on a comfortable couch in an empty or quiet house (I have three kids and a husband so I don't get this very often!), with a fire roaring in the woodstove, a blanket and something hot to drink nearby.
Book character I’d like to be stuck in an elevator with: We've been reading Anne of Green Gables aloud at my house and my kids and I agreed that Anne makes any experience more interesting and dramatic, so I'll say Anne Shirley!
Author Interview - Sarah Stewart Taylor
The moment I knew I wanted to become an author: When I was nine or ten, I read A Day No Pigs Would Die, by Robert Newton Peck and when I finished it, I was weeping, just absolutely sobbing. And it seemed like a superpower, to be able to make people cry like that!
Hardback, paperback, ebook or audiobook: Paperback, for portability, but the feel of a real book.
The last book I read: I just finished Lauren Wilkinson's American Spy and loved it!
Author Interview - Sarah Stewart Taylor
Pen & paper or computer: Computer, but scrawled notes and ideas with pen on paper all over the place!
Book character I think I’d be best friends with: P.D. James' Cordelia Gray.
Author Interview - Sarah Stewart Taylor
If I wasn’t an author, I’d be a: professional traveler of some kind, a travel writer or an explorer.
Favorite decade in fashion history: I love all the 1920s coats and dresses and silhouettes. I'm also fascinated by that between-the-wars period of world history and the fashions are so reflective of what was going on, of women's new freedoms, and of the joy, fear, and un.
Place I’d most like to travel: Maybe because they feel out-of-reach right now with the pandemic, I've been pining for Italy and Spain lately, for just sitting outdoors on a warm summer evening, eating something wonderful, drinking something refreshing, and watching the outdoor social life of an Italian or Spanish city…
My signature drink: It's a cold day here in Vermont and I'm also pining for Ireland, so I'll say a perfect hot whiskey: Irish whiskey, boiling water, sugar, and a clove-studded lemon slice. Ahhhhh.
Favorite artist: I could never choose just one, but I've been looking at a lot of Mary Cassat lately and listening to a lot of Miles Davis.
Number one on my bucket list: Either an expedition down the Amazon or an African safari. As a mystery writer, I've also always had a fantasy of staying in an English manor house when a crime occurred and being the one to solve it…
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Author Interview - Sarah Stewart Taylor
