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Tuesday 26 June 2018

12 Curly Questions with author/actress Elizabeth Gorcey

1. Tell us something hardly anyone knows about you.
When I drink coffee it makes me sleepy.

2. What is your nickname? 
Gorc

3. What is your greatest fear?
Sitting on my couch watching TV all day while eating bonbons!

4. Describe your writing style in 10 words. 
Raw from the heart, childlike, with many double/symbolic meanings.

5. Tell us five positive words that describe you as a writer.
Authentically funny, intelligent, deep, thoughtful, universal. I guess I'm describing me as a person!

6. What book character would you be, and why? 
Howard Roark from Ayn Rand's book The Fountainhead. Because I like Roark's integrity, ethic, individualism and independence.

7. If you could time travel, what year would you go to and why? 
The future to see if there are any planets left! No really to see how well the Liv On Life book series is doing!! 

8. What would your 10-year-old self say to you now? 
What happened?

9. Who is your greatest influence? 
My daughter, Liv, and my dog, Bowie.

10. What/who made you start writing? 
My daughter.

11. What is your favourite word and why? 
Gorbengil, just because.

12. If you could only read one book for the rest of your life, what would it be?
The Alchemist because it talks about the great journey of life.


Author, mother, and Hollywood actress Elizabeth Gorcey (Footloose, Teen Wolf) has been creating her entire life with paint, film and words. Her new book series is inspired and written along with her daughter, Olivia, who as a three-year-old began to spontaneously deliver wisdom and advice to anyone who was listening. Elizabeth dubbed her daughter's musings as Liv-Isms, and each book in the series is based on these everyday insights. Sometimes kids are the best teachers, and in encouraging her own daughter to embrace and use her authentic voice, Elizabeth realised how much adults can, and must, learn from the purity and honesty of a child's perspective. For more information, see www.elizabethgorcey.com.