QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS - A.D. LAWRENCE

 Hello, Friends!

I hope you’re having a wonderful week! Here are a few questions my Facebook peeps asked for this Q&A post along with my answers.

1. Do you ever have trouble sleeping or have scary dreams after writing an intense or frightening scene in your book?

That is a really great question. I don’t have much trouble falling asleep, thanks to ZzQuil, but I do have vivid dreams … usually scary ones. I tend to daydream about whatever book I’m writing, but my nighttime dreams often give me ideas for new stories. Not long ago, I had a dream that I’d been kidnapped by a man who wanted me to raise his little boy. Every time I did something the kid didn’t like, the dad would loom over me like he was planning to kill me with his hands. One day, I was putting canned vegetables in the basement and found a secret room. All over the walls of the room were women’s heads hanging up like those taxidermy deer heads. I’ll leave out the twisty ending, just in case I decide to use the dream as flash fiction someday. But yes, my writing does inspire some pretty unsettling dreams.

2. What location would you like to have a book you write set in?

Since I like to visit the locations in which my books are set, I’d have to say the U.K. It’s my dream destination. I’m a fan of strange history and like including historical tidbits into my stories, and England is steeped in bizarre happenings from the past.

3. How often do you converse about random serial killers? (Facts, history, etc.)

Oh dear. I’m reasonably sure my friends think I’m insane, since murderers crop up in most discussions. You’d be surprised how naturally Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy fit into normal conversation. Especially Ted. For whatever reason I talk about him a lot.

Comment below with the location you love most for books to be set in, and you may win a copy of The Purple Nightgown!