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How do you get inspired to write?
Edie Cay By opening the laptop.
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What’s your advice for aspiring writers?
Edie Cay Just write. Write wherever you feel comfortable, whether its on a computer in a coffee shop, on a napkin in an airport, in a notebook on your couch. Just write. Scraps of sentences, poetry, a phrase overheard. Then worry about craft and grammar and structure. Revise those scraps. If you like them, turn it into something longer and bigger. A novel isn't something horked up in one go, even by the greatest writers.

And you don't have to be great. You get to be you.
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What’s the best thing about being a writer?
Edie Cay Getting to know new people--yes, they're in my head, but they're still new.
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Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?
Edie Cay The female boxer from the Georgian era named Elizabeth Wilkinson Stokes. She was famous, fought frequently, married, trash-talked in the media, taught lessons, and lived for pugilism. Because she was a woman, and didn't fit with the next century's view of the Noble Masculinity that pugilism was supposed to embody, she was left forgotten. Her husband, James Stokes, is recorded as a boxer, but he didn't fight nearly as many bouts as she did. She was an incredible athlete, the top of her sport, and no one knows her name.
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How do you deal with writer’s block?
Edie Cay I don't get a lot of writer's block. I get writer's procrastination. I futz with the dishes, or take a shower, or take out the trash while I'm fretting over what's happening in my book. But it doesn't take long for me to sit down and start typing again.
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What are you currently working on?
Edie Cay I'm working on the second in my series When the Blood Is Up, which won the Hearts Through History Legends Award. It's titled The Boxer and the Blacksmith, and features the character of Bess Abbott, the professional female boxer that we meet in A Lady's Revenge. I've got a few more references to read, but I'm very excited about the story.
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