Interview with Louise Jane Watson, Author of Marooned

What’s the story behind the story? What impressed you to put in writing Marooned?

I wrote the ebook through the pandemic. Everything was so depressing, that I needed to create one thing that was pure escapism and full of heat, feel-good vibes. I needed studying the ebook to really feel like getting a hug.

If you needed to choose theme songs for the principle characters of Marooned, what would they be?

I used to be re-watching Guardians of the Galaxy this weekend, so I’m selecting songs from that soundtrack! For Sunny, I might select The Five Stairsteps – O-o-h Child, and for Kit it might be Fooled Around and Fell in Love – Elvin Bishop. Then for Pinky, the ship’s cat, I believe it might undoubtedly need to be “Come and Get Your Love” by Redbone! Throw these three tunes on a playlist, and also you get a reasonably nice define of each the characters, and the texture of the ebook.

What’s your favourite style to learn? Is it the identical as your favourite style to put in writing?

I’m unsure if I’ve a favourite style. I learn mysteries, thrillers, survival tales, romance, sci-fi… Honestly I believe my writing has influences from all these genres in it— even sci-fi. I re-read The Martian as I used to be writing Marooned—it’s a shipwreck story in any case!

What books are in your TBR pile proper now?

I haven’t learn any Tessa Bailey books but, so they’re all on my TBR. Susan Pierce has a brand new ebook popping out in her Backspin sequence that I’m excited to learn. I additionally purchased A Solitude of Wolverines by Alice Henderson not too long ago, in order that’s on the prime of the TBR pile.

What scene in your ebook was your favourite to put in writing?

I don’t wish to give away any spoilers, however there’s one scene, near the top, that’s my absolute favourite. It made me cry writing it, and nonetheless actually makes my coronary heart squeeze, though I’ve now learn the scene one million instances. You’ll understand it whenever you get to it!

Do you’ve any quirky writing habits? (fortunate mugs, cats on laps, and so on.)

I do rather a lot of pacing. I’ll be banging out a scene, then get to some extent the place I’m not fairly certain what occurs subsequent. That’s when the pacing and muttering occurs. I truly stroll in circles, I by no means thought I might be an individual who walked in circles, however there you go. Writing introduced out quirks I didn’t know I had!

Do you’ve a motto, quote, or philosophy you reside by?

“Begin anywhere.” ― John Cage

I really like John Cage (twentieth century experimental musician/artist). His entire factor was about seeing magnificence and poetry in even essentially the most mundane of experiences. Another quote from John Cage is “To accept what comes, regardless of consequences, is to be unafraid.” I try to keep in mind that when I’m overthinking issues!

If you could possibly select one factor for readers to recollect after studying your ebook, what would it not be?

Work in your inside magnificence, not your outer… and cut back your plastic utilization!