Ten Things You Didn’t Know About Me – Aleksandr Voinov

1. I studied history because of Sir Walter Scott’s “Ivanhoe”. I just wanted to be able to write about the Templars without making too many mistakes. Still took me eight years after finishing my studied before I did write a Templar story.

2. My first car was a silver-grey VW Golf, Turbo Diesel. It was ancient, but it ran and ran, and ran. While I had it, I was involved in three crashes, but none were my fault. These days, I don’t drive (there’s really no point in London.)

3. When I was growing up, I wanted to be a fire fighter, policeman, archaeologist, egyptologist, lawyer, pharmacist (yes, really), ninja, soldier, and a writer. Guess which one worked out. Hieroglyphs were just too damn hard, and I kept falling asleep in law lectures.

4. My favourite colour is teal, yet nothing in my study is teal-coloured. (That sucks. I’ll have to change that.)

5. I only sing along to the music on my headphones when I’m alone at home. (Because, let’s face it, my guy would get the wrong ideas if he could hear me singing Judas Priest’s “Love You To Death”, like right now.)

6. I’m a Bejewelled and Tetris addict. It’s so bad that I had to delete them both from my computer (and my smartphone). Now, if I could find a way to block all Bejewelled and Tetris websites…

7. I pretty much spent the years 1993-2005 roleplaying, either around a table, or dressed up (usually as a warrior of some description), or online. It’s a miracle I somehow worked three jobs and finished university and even wrote some books.

8. I love giving pens (from fountain pens to nice quality rollerballs) as gifts to writers. (Probably because I just love buying them. Some people buy a million ties, I buy pens.)

9. I could live anywhere in the world (as long as it’s in the temperate zone), but I really need something medieval around me to be happy. There’s just that whiff of history that says “home” to me.

10. I almost never remember dreams (maybe like twice per year). The closest I get to dreaming is just before I fall asleep, but by the time I wake up, it’s all gone. This is especially weird because my partner is a lucid dreamer who always remembers and can always remember his dreams. That’s one thing I’d love to be able to do, because I just know I’m dreaming and with my muse and subconsciousness, I’m probably doing some really cool and interesting stuff at night – I just can’t remember any of it.

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