• strawberry: favorite desserts?

I am a chronic sweet tooth, so anything with loads of sugar in it has my vote. Salted Caramel Anything generally gets my attention on any menu. Since I’m on the Keto, sugar of all kinds is verbotten territory unless it’s a feast day, so I go for the biggest hit in the least amount of time.

That said, I’m also a sucker for the finer things in life. Lindt chocolate, Guillian - those seashell hazelnut praline things, Ferrero Roche’s and Jersey Caramels :D There’s also a brand of boysenberry ripple ice cream out my way that’s just The Bomb. Yummo.

• cherry: can you play any musical instruments or can you sing?
  

My immediate family says ‘no’ to both. The meanies. I have been told by more distant relatives that I have a decent singing voice. If anything, my desire to imitate the original version I heard probably lets me down. I’m middle of the road, vocally, so the high notes and the low notes get me in the end.

[Boy, someone’s having fun…]

• tangelo: if you could be any mythical creature, which would you be?

I want to be a Dragon, but I’d probably wind up as a Kobold if I tried it.

• watermelon: do you have a job? if so, what is your job title?
  

I am, alas, not on anyone’s payrolls. I don’t even earn enough from my writing to call it a job.

• blackberry: is your life an action film, a comedy, a romantic comedy, or drama?
  

In my darker moments, I suspect my life is a sitcom and I’m the writers’ butt monkey. I’m probably closer to one of those artsy films where they take you into Imagination Land for a good 50% of the screen time.

• mango: what is your trademark?

The ability to say things sideways in such a way as to alienate my readers. And starting sentences with ‘and’… and a love of the ellipsis…

• pineapple: sexual orientation?
  

Panromantic demisexy [and slightly obtuse. You have to have a big, glittery sign that says, “I’M FLIRTING WITH YOU” and even then I will notice the glitter before reading it]

• kiwi: what’s something that fascinates you?

I always return to murder most foul. How they did it, if they got away with it, what forensics can teach us about how to capture them etc etc. I can’t stay away from that shit.

• peach: do you have any piercings or tattoos?
  

I have two traditional ear piercings and I once gave myself an accidental tattoo with a gun. (semi-long story)

• raspberry: favourite flower?
  

Jacarandas, frangipanis, and those carnation-like things that change colour [I think they’re called “Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow” but it’s been literal years]

• coconut: favorite perfume?
  

Beloved once purchased a perfume that smells exactly like spun sugar. That one.