Q & A with Gary Collins

1. When do you like to write (time of day, day of week)? Where do you do your writing (location)?

Early morning, over looking our bay from my house and during the evenings from my log cabin on Traverse Pond.

2. What other jobs have you had besides being a writer?

Trucker, Logging, Sawmilling, Contractor, and Business Owner.

3. What do you like to do in your free time?

Guitar playing, reading, forest walks alone, and spending time with my granddaughter, Maggie Rose.

4. What kind of music do you listen to?

Classical, Popular, and Local.

5. What is your favourite movie(s)?

Fiddler on the Roof

6. Who is your favourite author(s)?

Thomas Hardy and Wilbur Smith.

7. What are you reading now?

 The Best of Kipling and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

8. What city/country would you most like to visit and why?

A cruise of the Danube River . . . because of its history and mystery.

9. What character from your book(s) is the most like you? What one would you most like to be?

Probably Alex . . .

10. Make a question of your own and then answer it.

What would you like to do for the next few years?

Write more books, especially one about our lost native Redman—the Beothuks.