{"id":4408,"date":"2021-08-18T11:08:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T00:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/?p=4408"},"modified":"2021-08-17T18:29:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T07:59:10","slug":"rapid-fire-questions-lisa-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/2021\/08\/rapid-fire-questions-lisa-walker\/","title":{"rendered":"RAPID FIRE QUESTIONS WITH: Lisa Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\"RapidIn our author interview series RAPID FIRE, we\u2019re getting to know our authors a little better by throwing a few quick questions at them.\u00a0Next up to the plate is Lisa Walker, author of\u00a0Trouble is My Business<\/em>, the next Olivia Grace mystery.<\/em><\/h1>\n

Lisa talks about her current 1960s-flavoured reading habits,\u00a0the book that most inspired the character of Olivia Grace, and something she wished she’d known about publishing before getting started.<\/p>\n

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What are you reading right now?<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Utopia Avenue<\/em> by David Mitchell. I\u2019m a big David Mitchell fan, and I\u2019m loving this story of an imaginary 1960s rock band. I just finished Daisy Jones and The Six<\/em>, by Taylor Jenkins Reid, which is also about an imaginary 1960s rock band, so the Summer of Love is in the air for me right now!<\/p>\n

What book has had the greatest influence on your work?<\/strong><\/h1>\n

In terms of the Olivia Grace novels, I think the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich were the most influential. Like Olivia, Stephanie Plum is a mile-a-minute feisty heroine with a complicated life.<\/p>\n

What do you wish you\u2019d known about writing when you first got started?<\/strong><\/h1>\n

That every single novel I write will feel like a plotless disaster when I\u2019m about halfway through. And that, if I keep writing, the shape of the story will gradually reveal itself.<\/p>\n

What do you wish you\u2019d known about being published when you first got started?<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Getting published is fulfilling and exciting, but it\u2019s not the end goal. It\u2019s the pleasure of discovering new stories that keeps me coming back.<\/p>\n

\"Rapid<\/h1>\n

Best piece of advice you\u2019ve ever been given?<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Don\u2019t worry about your first draft being awful. That\u2019s what first drafts are for.<\/p>\n

What book do you wish you had written?<\/strong><\/h1>\n

So many! Most recently though, I have swooned over \u2018The End of the World is Bigger than Love\u2019 by Davina Bell. It is beautiful, wise, mystical, and both hopeful and heartbreaking.<\/p>\n

\"Trouble<\/a>Trouble is My Business<\/em>, the second Olivia Grace mystery, is now available. Find out more, or purchase the book here<\/a>.<\/h1>\n

Olivia Grace, recently retired teen PI, has her priorities sorted. Pass first-year law, look after her little sister, and persuade her parents to come back from a Nepali monastery to resume … well, parenting. But after Olivia’s friend Abbey goes missing in Byron Bay, a short drive from Olivia’s Gold Coast home, she can’t sit back and study Torts. It’s time to go undercover as hippie-chick Nansea, in hippie-chic Byron Bay, hub of influencers and international tourism, and home of yoga, surfing and wellness culture.<\/p>\n

Olivia’s looking for answers, with the help of her stash of disguises, the PI skills her irresistible ex-boss Rosco taught her\u00a0\u2013 and a nose for trouble. Her suspects include a hardcore surfer who often argued with Abbey in the surf, a charismatic cult leader and an acrobatic botany student.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And then there’s Rosco, officially assigned to the case, and proving impossible to avoid.<\/p>\n

Lisa Walker’s second Olivia Grace novel is another rip-roaring excursion into madcap sunshine noir, with nods to Nancy Drew and Sherlock Holmes, and a flavour of Veronica Mars meets Elmore Leonard.<\/p>\n

Find the original Olivia Grace mystery,\u00a0The Girl\u00a0with the Gold Bikini<\/em>, here<\/a>.<\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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