Elizabeth Flock

Elizabeth Flock is more complicated than she looks, and she looks pretty damn complicated! After a successful career as a television news reporter and magazine journalist she turned to fiction in an attempt to stay sane. She landed on The New York Times bestseller list, and her next two novels will be published by Random House (fancy!) She is probably the funniest person we know.

The Sixty Second Interview with… Elizabeth Flock

1. How do you take your coffee? I’m not doing your little quiz thing.
2. Did you make up a bunch of lies when you were a kid? Yes, the only difference is I get paid to do it now.
3. Of all the metaphors by which writing has been portrayed, which is your favorite (i.e. like bricklaying, like running a marathon, etc.)? Wait, did you seriously just define metaphor for me? Those were similes by the way.
4. What’s next for you? Figuring out my next book. Don’t trust any writer who doesn’t say that.
5. What is your mantra for handling rejection? Rejection launches me into a spiral of self-doubt and self-loathing. No, scratch that. At this point, honestly, I expect it. I’m surprised when I don’t get rejected.
6. Has your beauty hampered you in the search for the perfect sentence? Yes. Yes, it has. Mainly because I can’t tear my eyes away from the mirror long enough to even *try* to construct a sentence. But wait! Breaking news! Just now, in considering the answer to this question, the perfect sentence popped into my pretty little head: 

I’m so beautiful I make myself jealous. 

So there you go. Turns out my beauty *allowed me* to come up with the perfect sentence.

Our (current) favorite sentence of Liz’s: “Those times when her bad mood would sweep every floor of the house taking prisoners.”