Feyisayo Anjorin joins us for this week’s interview! He’s the author of the Hypocrite series of books: One Week In The Life of A Hypocrite, Another Week In The Life of A Hypocrite and Love Lessons From The Life of A Hypocrite.
Read on below!
Q: What is the title of your most recent book?
A: Love Lessons From The Life of A Hypocrite.
Q: Why did you choose this title?
A: It sums up the overall idea of the story.
Q: What’s the book about?
A: Two weary lovers giving relationship advice from personal experience.
Q: Why did you write this book?
A: I started a story and I wanted to finish it.
Q: And why now?
A: Readers of the first two books got curious, I got curious too.
Q: Describe the ideal reader of your book.
A: Someone with outlandish ideas of what love is.
Q: What are your politics/values?
A: Simply let your yes be yes and your no be no.
Q: Why might someone with oppositional politics/values enjoy your book? If they wouldn’t, do you regret that?
A: The way the couple responded to fire with fire.
Q: Why do you write, generally?
A: I’d rather die than not write.
Q: Where/how do you write?
A: On laptops or with a pen and paper, I just do it.
Q: As a writer, what’s the biggest challenge you face?
A: Starting a project, once it starts it keeps going.
Q: Are you working on any new projects?
A: I’m always working on new projects.
Q: What/who you do read?
A: Chinua Achebe, T C Boyle, John Grisham, Alice Munro.
Q: Why do you read?
A: Think of it as a kind of refueling.
Q: Where/when you do read?
A: Anywhere there’s something to read, I’m reading it.
Q: Do you listen to music?
A: Music, I listen to music and I make music.
Q: What differentiates us from the animals?
A: We have a kind of intelligence and God-like abilities that animals lack.
Q: Do you have a mantra? If willing, please share.
A: Mantra? We’re taking nothing out of this world.
Q: What is your preferred breakfast – something you could have every day?
A: Bananas, almond seeds, walnuts
Q: What’s the highest altitude you’ve been to on land? (i.e. not in a plane)
A: I’m surrounded by hills, I’ve been on Idanre Hills, that’s about 3000 feet above sea level.
Q: Have you ever written any songs? If yes, describe your sound.
A: I’ve written many songs, I would say Soul/Afrobeat/RnB/Reggae is my sound.
BIO
Feyisayo Anjorin is a screenwriter, songwriter, singer, and short story writer whose writings have appeared in Temz Review, Brittle Paper, Litro, African Writer, Lolwe, Bella Naija and Kalahari Review.
He writes from Akure North, Nigeria.
Below is the Amazon link to the latest book:
https://www.amazon.com/Love-Lessons-Life-Hypocrite-Seven/dp/B0D8ZB8NB6
Below is the link to all 3 books of the Hypocrite Series:
https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Days-3-book-series/dp/B0B34SFM3Y
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