Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Hello, My name is Avery. I’m a mother, an editor, and a food enthusiast. This is my first book.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The book is called “Dip!: Fun, tasty, easy dips made with ingredients you probably have on hand. ” These are all my own recipes – tweaked and tested in my own kitchen, and photographed here as well. We had a lot of fun trying these out! And then I hid the bathroom scale.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Do other people get cream cheese and tomato salsa on their laptop when they’re working? Is that unusual? (I’m guessing no.) How about getting jalapeno in your eye, and squinting like a pirate while you update the text?
What authors, or books have influenced you?
As an editor, I work on a lot of cookbooks. I appreciate and gravitate to the ones that use ingredients the common species of parent is likely to have on hand. By common, I guess I mean like me. 🙂
What are you working on now?
For my next trick, I’m thinking about making a pizza book, or a book about weeknight supper hacks. I would like to make a recipe book about lentils, but everyone hates those…
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Well, Awesome Gang is…awesome!
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Sit down, and write about the things that make you feel good. No, sit down. Really. You need to sit. And write. Now do that a lot.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Miss Piggy said “Never eat more than you can lift.” That’s good advice right there.
What are you reading now?
Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman
What’s next for you as a writer?
I’m also an editor, so that takes a good deal of my working time. I have two novels I swear I will finish…one of these days.
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
I’m an Outlander fan, but I guess that’s too many books. Anything by Stephen King, or Phillipa Gregory, or Joanna Bourne, or Barbara Erskine…
Hey, can I be on a dessert island? That sounds like my sort of place.