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What is something about this book that you wish people would ask you about more often? This can be anything that you feel has been overlooked in other conversations about the book.
How would you describe yourself as a writer? What tends to characterize your voice, approach, or the kinds of subjects you are naturally drawn toward?
What does your writing process actually look like? Do you have particular routines, habits, places, times of day, tools, rituals, or unusual methods that help you write?
How much of your own life finds its way into your writing? Even when a book is fictional, academic, historical, or far removed from your personal experiences, are there parts of you that inevitably enter the work?
What has being a writer taught you about yourself? Has writing changed the way you observe people, experience the world, understand yourself, or think about other people?
Outside of writing, what is something about you that readers of this book might be surprised—or interested—to know? It could be a profession, hobby, obsession, personal experience, place, daily habit, or another part of your life that somehow connects to the person or writer you have become.