Mary Pat Hyland is an Amazon Top 100 bestselling author and has published six novels and a collection of short stories. Her short stories have appeared in the anthologies Seasons Readings and Lost Love Letters: An Indie Chicks Anthology. In 2013, the Arts Council of Yates County selected her as an Artist in Residence. She is a graduate of Syracuse University and has worked in the commercial/fine art, journalism, education, and culinary fields. Mary Pat resides in upstate New York, the setting for her novels, and enjoys organic gardening, gourmet cooking, visiting the Finger Lakes and teaching the Irish language.
Mary Pat answered the following questions for our interview:
1. Name
Mary Pat Hyland
Mary Pat Hyland
2. How long have you been
an indie writer?
Since 2008
Since 2008
3. What formats do you
publish in?
Paperback & ebooks
Paperback & ebooks
4. What genres do you write
in?
Short stories, chick lit, suspense, humor, family saga
Short stories, chick lit, suspense, humor, family saga
5. Are you on Twitter or Facebook?
Twitter: https://twitter.com/cailinAolain
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marypathyland
Twitter: https://twitter.com/cailinAolain
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marypathyland
6. What’s your current
book?
In the Shadows of the Onion Domes, Collected Short Stories
In the Shadows of the Onion Domes, Collected Short Stories
7. How do you want your
readers to feel after they’re read your book?
This book is like a Whitman’s Sampler of my writing styles. I hope it will bring smiles, maybe a few tears, and leave you thinking.
This book is like a Whitman’s Sampler of my writing styles. I hope it will bring smiles, maybe a few tears, and leave you thinking.
8. What’s your next book
about?
It’s a humorous suspense novel that I’m currently writing as part of National Novel Writing Month.
9. What types of jobs have you had other than writing?
Cook, journalist, art director, portrait artist, greenhouse assistant
It’s a humorous suspense novel that I’m currently writing as part of National Novel Writing Month.
9. What types of jobs have you had other than writing?
Cook, journalist, art director, portrait artist, greenhouse assistant
10. What did it feel like
when you were first published?
Finally, a long-held dream came true.
11. What’s your go-to song when your writing muse needs to be recharged?
“Coyote” by Joni Mitchell. Her writing is exquisite and I love the sense of being on a road trip somewhere through the strumming of the guitar chords and Jaco Pastorious’s beautiful bass notes.
Finally, a long-held dream came true.
11. What’s your go-to song when your writing muse needs to be recharged?
“Coyote” by Joni Mitchell. Her writing is exquisite and I love the sense of being on a road trip somewhere through the strumming of the guitar chords and Jaco Pastorious’s beautiful bass notes.
12.
What do you do when writer’s block strikes?
Go for a walk. There’s something about the fresh air and change of scenery that helps re-charge the imagination.
Go for a walk. There’s something about the fresh air and change of scenery that helps re-charge the imagination.
13. What’s the best compliment your writing ever earned?
That the reader kept thinking about the characters and what they were up to, months after reading the book (The House With the Wraparound Porch).
14. If you’re stranded on a
desert island with a solar battery recharger, what would you be reading on your
Kindle?
I think I’d need something humorous. My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber.
15. If you could have dinner with three other writers, who would they be?
Dorothy Parker, Eudora Welty and Frank McCourt. All dead, unfortunately, but if it were possible, the conversation would be anything but that.
16. What’s your blog and/or website address?
Website: http://marypathyland.com/
Blog: http://www.marypathyland.com/thehylander/
I think I’d need something humorous. My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber.
15. If you could have dinner with three other writers, who would they be?
Dorothy Parker, Eudora Welty and Frank McCourt. All dead, unfortunately, but if it were possible, the conversation would be anything but that.
16. What’s your blog and/or website address?
Website: http://marypathyland.com/
Blog: http://www.marypathyland.com/thehylander/
17. Cats or dogs?
Dogs. Border collies, to be specific
Dogs. Border collies, to be specific
18. Cake or death? (To
soothe the boisterous Eddie Izzard lobbyists…)
Cake with thick chocolate frosting
Cake with thick chocolate frosting
19. What fictional character
do you identify with most?
Sybylla Melvyn in My Brilliant Career
Sybylla Melvyn in My Brilliant Career
20. What’s the closing line
of your latest book?
At that moment, knowing she was nearing the bridge between this world and the next herself, nothing else mattered but the fact that for the first time in six years, she felt fully alive.
At that moment, knowing she was nearing the bridge between this world and the next herself, nothing else mattered but the fact that for the first time in six years, she felt fully alive.
Thank you for spending time with us, Mary Pat! If you would like to read her latest or explore her previous works, please check the following links:
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Noble
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