Interview With Author LindaAnn LoSchiavo
Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m a native New Yorker and a lifelong writer who has had many plays onstage / on radio. My poetry collections include Elgin Award winner “A Route Obscure and Lonely,” “Concupiscent Consumption,” “Women Who Were Warned,” and “Messengers of the Macabre” by Nat. 1, L.L.C. [October 2022]. You can find these on Amazon.
Up next: a tombstone-heavy collection in hardcover by Beacon Books.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
“Women Who Were Warned” [U.K.: Cerasus, 2022] — Sometimes compact, sometimes expansive, the 29 poems in “Women Who Were Warned” emanate from adolescence and other liminal spaces, considering girlhood and contemporary womanhood — and the ways both are fraught with the pleasures and limits of embodiment.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I write long-hand and my Siamese cats often try to sit on my hands or my keyboard as I write.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Shakespeare, Chaucer, and Edgar Allan Poe were my earliest influences. I am used to reading a book every day.
What are you working on now?
“Apprenticed to the Night” — under contract — this is a full-length poetry collection (hardcover).
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Twitter
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Read every day before you write.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
I never heard this advice but I offer it here. Pay attention to how your bookcovers will look, lined up side by side. Envision this. Will this line-up look “well thought out” or like a mismatch.
What are you reading now?
I am proof-reading my galleys.
What’s next for you as a writer?
A biography I’ve researched for 10 years.
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?
My last three daily diaries. As Oscar Wilde said, “A woman should have something sensational to read in the train.”
Author Websites and Profiles
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