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Maria Lima Revealed
About Maria Lima
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What is your birthdate?:9/4
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Previous occupations:HR manager, pizza delivery driver, accounting/payroll clerk, retail store manager
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Favorite job:Writing...even when I'm frustrated at the words.
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High school and/or college:Lago Vista HS; Trinity University
Revealing Questions
- Q. How would you describe your life in only 8 words?
- A. Crazy, mixed-up, conglomeration of all sorts of things.
- Q. How would you describe perfect happiness?
- A. The time and means to be able to write fulltime, travel to conventions to meet fans and fellow writers and to just "be".
- Q. If you could acquire any talent, what would it be?
- A. Singing. I love music and have a passable voice, but I'd love to be able to sign like a pro.
- Q. What is your greatest achievement?
- A. Becoming a published writer. My mother always thought I'd do this...I was never so sure.
- Q. What’s your best quality?
- A. Tenacity. I will finish. I will get it done.
- Q. What trait is most noticeable about you?
- A. My smile.
- Q. What is your favorite occupation, when you’re not writing?
- A. Reading and watching genre TV/movies.
- Q. What’s your fantasy profession?
- A. I'm living it! I write and get paid to do it.
- Q. What 3 personal qualities are most important to you?
- A. Loyalty, Respect and Sincerity.
On Books and Writing
- Q. Do you have one sentence of advice for new writers?
- A. There's no magic bullet, no fairy godparent: keep writing and give it your all.
- Q. How did you come to write Matters of the Blood?
- A. I'd started writing a traditional mystery based on a scene I'd imagined: a woman, trapped inside a mortuary prep room. Except, suddenly, one of the draped bodies sat up and started talking to her. Right then, I knew I either had to take it to straight up horror, or something else. I ended up with something else: urban (rural?) fantasy set in a fictional small town in the Texas Hill Country. The basics of the scene remained. The story completely changed.
