From time to time we like to ask authors some pretty quick, pretty personal rapid-fire questions. Today, Jason Pinter, author of Stranger at the Door is in the hot seat.
AM or PM?
I have two toddlers who need to be fed, changed, clothed, and prepped for school in the morning, so PM!
Wake up and go, or gotta get your motor running?
Wake up and down a gallon of coffee and then go!
TV, Books, Movies or Podcasts?
When I have time, all of them! Right now books. I just finished Tana French’s The Searcher and it was amazing.
Quiet night in or big night out on the town?
GIVE ME QUIET!
Favorite writing drink?
Old fashioned with Knob Creek bourbon.
Must-have snack for writer’s block?
Kettle Corn
Lounge by the pool or hike a mountain?
Give me an Adirondack chair by a lake.
Hike, run, walk, nap?
Run!
‘Personal revenge’ or ‘karma will get them’?
Revenge is way more fulfilling than karma.
Favorite way to sweat?
A good, long run or a spin class.
Online shopper or gotta try things on?
Online, I’m a terrible in-person shopper.
No. 1 Bucket List wish?
See one of my books made into a movie or TV show.
All-time favorite comedy movie?
Anchorman or Bridesmaids
All-time favorite drama movie?
The Godfather
Dark, milk or white chocolate?
Dark!
Favorite crunchy snack?
Buncha crunch (I miss eating this at the movies!)
Do you have a nickname?
Jay or J
Least favorite holiday and why?
Yom Kippur because I’m always super hungry by noon.
Best alcoholic beverage?
A good IPA
Favorite meal ever?
Steak from Peter Luger’s
Something no one knows about you that you feel you want to divulge?
I have two cadaver bones in my spine from surgery for two herniated discs. So I’m literally part corpse.
Any tattoos?
Nope
Aside from phone, laptop, writing device (or charger!) what is something you can’t function without on a day-to-day basis?
COFFEE
Best way to relax?
In a recliner with a good book
Title of your next book or work-in-progress?
Working on what will hopefully be the next Rachel Marin novel, and recently finished something totally different. Sorry, have to keep the titles under wraps for now!