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What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?
Lexie Elliott There's a mysterious estrangement lurking in the family history of my grandmother - I am certain I could make something of that!
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I was wondering if you had any characters, items, places, dialogues, etc. that you have taken out of your stories that I could use in a story idea that I had? The idea is about an island where every story piece that was given up on, thrown out or abandoned ends up. I've been asking authors if they have anything I could use because I want to put some truth in the idea. It's fine if you don't have anything. Thanks! :)
Lexie Elliott What a wonderfully whimsical idea! I'm afraid I don't have anything I'm happy to give over to you, because there's always a chance I might use that character/piece in a project in the future, but I wish you all the very best with this story.
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I won your book in a goodreads giveaway and accidently clicked that I had received it. I have not received it and don't know who to tell. Can you help me?
Lexie Elliott Cindi,
First of all, congratulations! I hope you enjoy the book when you finally get your copy! I don't know the answer myself, but I'm going to get in touch with my publisher immediately as I'm sure someone there will know how to solve this for you.

Best wishes,
Lexie
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If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?
Lexie Elliott That is a brilliant question! Whilst there are so many different books I have loved immersing myself in, if I'm getting a free passport to another universe I'm going to choose somewhere where I can see things and do things that are very different to my present reality. When I was in my early teens I adored Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series, so I would choose to go to Pern. After all, who wouldn't want to see another planet and ride a dragon?!
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What are you currently working on?
Lexie Elliott I am working on my second book, which is a psychological suspense novel set in Scotland (where I grew up). I can't say much more than that right now because it hasn't entirely taken shape in my mind yet.
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Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?
Lexie Elliott I went on vacation to a farmhouse in France with friends one summer during the time when I was doing my PhD at Oxford University, and whilst I was there I had the idea for the story that ultimately became my novel. The idea rolled around in my head for a good many years before I felt able to make a start on it; I think perhaps I knew I needed a bit more maturity as a writer to be able to tackle it properly.
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What’s your advice for aspiring writers?
Lexie Elliott Read: read indiscriminately, read what you enjoy, without worrying about "high brow" versus "low brow" or "commercial" versus "literary". Then write, and do it professionally: schedule it into your life, don't wait for inspiration to strike. Modern life is busy, it will always get in the way if you let it; if you're really serious about writing, you have to ring-fence that time.
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How do you deal with writer’s block?
Lexie Elliott I'm lucky in that so far my episodes of writer's block have been short-lived. If I'm honest, most of those episodes have come about because there is some element of what I'm writing that needs to be fixed, and that means I need to give myself thinking time. But since my writing time is somewhat limited, I'm loath to give it up, so one solution I've arrived at is to skip ahead to writing a scene that is planned for later in the novel; I can then come back to the troublesome section on another day when I've had time to mull it over.
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What books are on your summer reading list this year?
Lexie Elliott Top of my list is Arundhati Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. I loved The God of Small Things so very, very much that I am actually feeling very nervous about reading it - the level she set with that first book seems impossible to match. I think I shall just have to take a deep breath and dive in...

Also on the list is Karen Dionne's The Marsh King's Daughter, which by all accounts is a sensational thriller. Beyond that, I might surprise you by saying that I'm actually hoping not to read too much: I'm working very hard on my new novel and I find it inhibiting to read other authors when I'm deep in the writing process as I can unconsciously pick up the 'voice' of whatever I'm reading.
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