![]() That fills most of my day, making most days feel like a blur. ![]() Then there are places to take my children to or I will have to teach them at home. My day starts with coffee and is quite relaxed for a short time. Can you take us through a typical day in the writing life of Maressa Mortimer? I know that coffee and plenty of it plays a vital role in your writing. Even as a Christian, knowing they’re in heaven, it’s hard not to wish them back. Even now, when losing friends or relatives, it’s hard not to feel there would have been a worse person that should have died instead. My dad was one of eight children, and three of my uncles died when they were quite young, early fifties, sixties, and as a teenager, I could see rather nasty people living till their late nineties and that felt wrong. “It started with me secretly wondering why it’s always the ‘wrong’ people that die.” Tell me more. Your words about how you got the idea for Burrowed fascinated me. I caught up with her to ask her some questions about her latest novel, Burrowed, for which she has created an entire society. Since then, she’s written and published another four books as well as contributing to a writing anthology. She excels at creating an atmosphere of slightly creepy suspense. Reading it, I felt pleasurable shivers running down my spine. Maressa published her first novel, “Sapphire Beach”, at the end of 2019. I’ve written two books and am working on my third, but I am a sluggard, a heavy-footed idler compared to the magnificent Maressa Mortimer whose latest book, “Burrowed” I’m featuring today. Being published seemed like an impossible dream to me back then and even now I sometimes have to pinch myself to make sure it’s true. Walking over to the authors’ table, I was blown away by the sheer number of books, all written by actual people who I was probably going to meet over the next few years. I was a new member, hadn’t published any fiction and wasn’t planning to, but was an eager consumer of other people’s. One of mine is the moment I first walked into the venue for the ACW Writers’ Day in Derby back in October 2018. We all have unforgettable moments in our lives.
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