author & psychic
Here's a news flash--writers are selfish people. Truth is, creative types like me are driven by one impulse--to make up a world in which we get to control everything and everyone. We decide who enters and who exits, what the weather will be, who will hook up with whom, who will win and who will lose. It makes us feel powerful and, in all honesty, has relatively little to do with thinking about what will make anyone else happy.
VICTORIA LAURIE
acknowledgements, What's A Ghoul to Do?
To write three series a year you only need to commit to writing 10 pages per day, or editing 50 pages of text per day. Plus, writing is my job, and I need to write to eat, so I'm highly motivated to get up and get to work!
VICTORIA LAURIE
Relate Magazine, April 1, 2011
You said you found Cathy by the Dumpster. This has significance because he thinks that women are trash.
VICTORIA LAURIE
Better Read than Dead
I believe the first story I ever wrote was about a young girl who was terribly mistreated by her very cruel parents, and one day the girl fled to the woods to live amongst a pack of wolves. Hey, I was eleven, loved wolves, and had been grounded for what I felt was a minor infraction. Can you blame me?
VICTORIA LAURIE
Relate Magazine, April 1, 2011
I was fairly certain that my strong-enough-for-King-Kong-but-made-for-a-woman deodorant had utterly failed.
VICTORIA LAURIE
Doom with a View
Whoop! 6K words, 21 pages, and 8 miles on the treadmill -- DONE! #ProductiveDay #LetThereBeIceCream
VICTORIA LAURIE
Twitter post, December 21, 2014
It never even occurred to me until I got the idea for the first Psychic Eye mystery to turn my experiences as a down to earth,(somewhat) levelheaded psychic into a saleable story. And once I got the idea -- the whole thing just snowballed and it all happened very, very fast.
VICTORIA LAURIE
interview, Author's Den
Death has an energy. It is thick as sludge, heavy as iron, and pulls you down into yourself like an imploding building.
VICTORIA LAURIE
Death Perception
Sometimes during Mercury Retro I think, "Huh. This ain't so bad." & then that little bitch planet slaps me and I'm all, "On second thought."
VICTORIA LAURIE
Twitter post, October 13, 2014
Am I the only one who secretly hopes that the Curiosity rover will be swallowed up by a giant alien worm living just below Mars's surface?
VICTORIA LAURIE
Twitter post, December 16, 2014
Dear CDC, in 2015, when it comes time to select the next flu vaccine, GUESS BETTER!!!
VICTORIA LAURIE
Twitter post, December 31, 2014
Life is full of chances -- and those times when we each trust our own guts and have a terrific outcome reaffirms our ability to make good decisions.
VICTORIA LAURIE
interview, Author's Den
Sometimes I think that my best writing comes from exposing my fears and vulnerabilities and hoping that nobody notices it's about me.
VICTORIA LAURIE
Twitter post, October 13, 2014
GUY: You're a writer?
ME: Yeah.
GUY: Any of your books made into a movie?
ME: Sigh.
VICTORIA LAURIE
Twitter post, November 6, 2014
In Birmingham, the women are maintained, the men are greedily lustful, and the children are named after high-end automobiles. You are just as likely to run into a Bentley, Mercedes, Porsche, and Lexus walking on the sidewalk as you are cruising the downtown streets.
VICTORIA LAURIE
Abby Cooper: Psychic Eye
I'd even had business cards made up reading, ABIGAIL COOPER, P.I. with teeny-weeny little letters underneath in parentheses spelling out PSYCHIC INTUITIVE. Most people think I'm trying to be clever. The truth is, I'm a chickenshit.
VICTORIA LAURIE
Abby Cooper: Psychic Eye
That's also part of having great editors -- they can sort of be honest with you and say, "I see where you're headed with this, but I don't think it's there yet. Dig deeper, babe, and come back with something more." And that's what you do, you dig waaaaaaaay down and you walk around the block eight million times and then you have it -- shazam! And it all comes together in something soooo much better than you thought you were capable of.
VICTORIA LAURIE
interview, Author's Den
Dutch was wearing his usual bedtime attire--pajama bottoms and sex appeal.
VICTORIA LAURIE
Deadly Forecast
If snark could kill, I'd have to register my mouth with the FBI. :)
VICTORIA LAURIE
Twitter post, August 24, 2014
What kind of a man thinks it's appropriate to give his soon-to-be bride a lethal weapon for a wedding present?
VICTORIA LAURIE
Lethal Outlook