Featured Interview With Anne Social
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Anne Social is actually the pen name of three sisters. We were born and raised in Arizona, but spent a couple of years out in the Midwest, where we picked up writing. We’re back in AZ now, but writing followed us!
We have a border collie and a tortoise shell cat.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
We didn’t really start writing until we were in our teen years. We needed a form of escape that wasn’t constantly buffering dank memes or workaholism. Writing was just that.
After a long day of picking rocks or sniffing moldy antique books to sell on our eBay store, we’d get on our computers and write like nothing was wrong. We were (are) a bit perfectionistic, though. We wouldn’t even look at our keyboards until we’d studied story structure and character development. This was an instant head start in our writing career. The three of us instantly fell in love with each other’s books, a thriller, a sci-fi, and a fantasy.
We’d lay in our bunk beds and talk about writing past midnight. We’d eat lunch, debating and theorizing over our methods. We’d find each other grinning stupidly as we thought up a scene or joke that wouldn’t be revealed until the book was finished.
Together we realized that if we couldn’t write for a living, we’d die. Writing outshone every other hobby and interest we had. It saved our existence and then we existed for it.
Now our goal is to write books that make people want to stay in existence. We write hopeful stories that don’t ignore the dark side of life. Stories that meet the reader where he stands.
Collectively, we’ve written over ten books, but now we’re working on publishing our second and third.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Gary D. Schmidt and S.E. Hinton are some of our absolute favorites. We’ll read any genre, fantasy, sci-fi, thrillers, YA, classics, and even non-fiction. We write for each other, that’s our biggest inspiration. Oh, and the music of Twenty One Pilots.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
Hijinks is inspired by a creepy little pizza place in a small town in Missouri. We used to drive past it and speculate why it was never open. Were they hiding a body in there? Is it a pit stop for human traffickers? Were they keeping Bigfoot in a cage in the attic? Our top theory was that it was secretly a drug front. That’s always our top theory.
Anyway, Hijinks centers around the relationship of four teens who end up working together to solve the mystery of a cryptic pizza place. We’re really excited about its release, April 25th!
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