Cyn V.? We think maybe she's got some crazy...

...in her.

Not that this is such a bad thing for a writer.

We met Cynthia Vespia at Absolute Write. She was looking for an interview swap. In these kinds of swaps, as you’ve probably figured, each writer interviews the other, offers a book blurb related to the interview, flashes a cover image to entice the crowds, and hopes that someone, somewhere, is intrigued. The hint of intrigue becomes a burning curiosity, the novel is purchased, raves follow – and the best-seller list beckons.

That’s the plan, anyway.

We started with asking her one of the standard interview questions: Why do you write, anyway? There’s a big guy standing behind me with an axe, threatening to cut my head off if I don’t write. In all seriousness, I love to write. I have stories that need to be told. Besides, there really isn’t anything I’d rather be doing.

So, right off the bat, we’re a little concerned about this woman. There isn’t anything she’d rather be doing? Vacationing in Hawaii, diving into her own personal money pit, getting a full body massage by Jason Statham or Johnny Depp or both, in tandem?
 
Really?

 Still, we forged together, pulling out Standard Question #2: When did you decide to become a writer? (It turns out, she was waaaay ahead of the game.) and the teacher asked everyone what they wanted to be when they grew up. Everyone parroted each others answers. The boys said ‘football player’, the girls said ‘veterinarian’. I said, ‘I want to be an author.’ The teacher stopped, saying to the entire class, ‘Did everyone hear that? That’s a good job.’ It still makes me smile when I think about that time.

It made us smile to think about a time when a school teacher thought “author” was a good job.  Maintaining interviewer mode, we went to S.Q. #3: Why do you write what you write? Cyn said, The side we choose to nurture defines who we are.