1. What do you wish men understood about women?
That women want to be loved, respected and listened
to. And they’re not nearly as
complicated as men try to make out.
They are different from men in the way that they think
and in the way that they socialise, but different doesn’t mean inferior or
unworthy of respect. It just means
different.
2. Do you only work on one book at a time?
Yes. When I’m writing a novel, I live in the
world of my novel. I have my
characters in my head and know how they’d think and act. I wouldn’t be able to hold a second
fictional world in my head at the same time as the first.
I’m
always working on a new novel when I get the edits for the last, and it’s a
real wrench to drag myself away from the world of the new novel. I wouldn’t inflict this on myself if I
didn’t have to.
Furthermore,
if I were moving backwards and forwards between one novel and another, I could
easily forget which words and phrases I’d used in each novel and would be at
risk of repeating myself.
3. Who is your favorite fictional couple?
I know
that I’m about to say what so many others will have said before me – Lizzy
Bennet and Mr. Darcy. I say this
even though I’d hate to sit next to Mr. Darcy at a dinner party as I think he’d
be an awful bore.
4.
Do you have a
favorite quote that sums up how you feel about life?
My
father always used to say, If a job’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well. I think that’s a pretty good philosophy
for life. Of course, that’s how
you approach life and not how you feel about it, which is your question, so
I’ll add that the more you put into something, the more you get out of it. It’s not exactly a quote, but the two
together come close.
5.
Do you set daily
writing goals? Word count? Number of chapters? Do you get a chance to write
every day?
When
I have a clear day, I write between 2,000 and 2,500 words. That’s my optimum number as I know that
when I write more than that, I’ll have a lot of editing to do the following day
before I can break fresh ground!
I
wish I could write every day, but I’m
the RNA Libraries’ Liaison, which is a lot of work, and I run the Oxford
Chapter of the RNA. Also, I have
commitments with my families and friends.
All these things stop me from being able to sit down and write every
day, much as I’d like to do so.
6.
What do you like better, Twitter or Facebook? Why?
I like them equally. Facebook feels more social because it’s
slower, but it requires more effort to get into it. Twitter is much faster, but perhaps a little too fast for
much depth.
7.
What are
you working on now?
I’ve just submitted another full-length novel to Choc Lit, and I’m
now working on a novel set in Darjeeling in 1930. It’s called The
Inheritance. That’s the most
I’ve said about it so far as I’m always afraid of jinxing a novel by saying too
much about it when it’s at an early stage.
THE LOST GIRL
BY LIZ HARRIS
What if you were trapped between two
cultures?
Life
is tough in 1870s Wyoming. But it’s tougher still when you’re a girl who looks
Chinese but speaks like an American.
Orphaned
as a baby and taken in by an American family, Charity Walker knows this only
too well. The mounting tensions
between the new Chinese immigrants and the locals in the mining town of Carter
see her shunned by both communities.
When
Charity’s one friend, Joe, leaves town, she finds herself isolated. However, in
his absence, a new friendship with the only other Chinese girl in Carter makes
her feel like she finally belongs somewhere.
But,
for a lost girl like Charity, finding a place to call home was never going to
be that easy …
Genre: Historical Romantic Fiction
Release Date: 16th
October, 2015
Publisher: Choc Lit
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ABOUT
LIZ HARRIS
Liz
Harris lives south of Oxford. Her debut novel was THE ROAD BACK (US Coffee Time
& Romance Book of 2012), followed by A BARGAIN STRUCK (shortlisted for the
RoNA Historical 2013), EVIE UNDERCOVER, THE ART OF DECEPTION and A WESTERN
HEART. All of her novels, which are published by Choc Lit, have been
shortlisted in their categories in the Festival of Romantic Fiction. In
addition, Liz has had several short stories published in anthologies. Her
interests are theatre, travelling, reading, cinema and cryptic crosswords.
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Many thanks for interviewing me, Rachel. I really enjoyed talking to you. :-)
ReplyDeleteGreat interview – really interesting range of topics!
ReplyDeleteInteresting interview and I always love finding out more about how other authors work. Angela Britnell
ReplyDeleteMany thanks for your comments, Clare and Angela. I thought Rachel's questions really interesting, too. :-)
ReplyDeleteGlad everyone enjoyed the interview! Great to have you here, Liz :)
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