Q & A with Raymond Goldie

1. If you could live during any time period and in any place, when and where would you choose?

Time: Definitely now. If it weren’t for today’s medical technology, I’d be a blind cripple.

Place: An island. No, two of them: the Big Island of Hawaii and the island of Newfoundland.

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

Climb volcanoes, especially while they erupt.

3. What is your favourite food?

Asian, with hot, hot sauce. I once came second in a hot-pepper-eating contest. Only after I conceded did the winner tell me that he had lived in Indonesia for twenty-five years.

4. What kind of music do you listen to?

Baroque music and the music of Pamela Morgan and Gayle Tapper.

5. What is your favourite book(s)?

A.S. Byatt’s Possession. Best novel ever written.

6. What are you reading now?

Precolumbian Art

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

I like to do my first drafts in pencil, on weekends, under a sun umbrella. And subsequent drafts on the computer, at night, at work but after work.

8. What was your first piece in print (book, review, or article, etc)?

“Metamorphism of the Flavrian and Powell Plutons, Noranda Area, Quebec” Journal of Petrology | Volume 20 | Number 2 | Pages 227–38 | 1979 (Oxford University Press)

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

Geologist

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

Do I think Flanker Press has done a wonderful job accepting, publishing, and promoting my book?

Absolutely!