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TEN Questions with Tone Aaness

1. Can you please introduce yourself and tell us something about your book "Happy Belated Birthday"
Ans: I am an Norwegian author, born in Oslo.I am a human rights activist, a peace activist, and an environmental activist. i  am also a performance artist and a classically trained painter.

The book «Happy Belated Birthday» is about Sally Sparks a writer and a life adventurist. In her strife for keeping her freedom, reputation, and social stability, I try as an author to give her some creative means.


2. How did you think about this title/  how did it come into your mind? 
Ans: I think someone was a bit late with the Congratulations on a birthday on Facebook. I kept thinking how we all greet eachother and how happy we become from it, but what is a birthday really? Is it the party or the year we survived. 


3. What kind of research do you do, and how long do you spend researching before beginning a book?
Ans: I often spend some time researching. I said somewhere else that I started the writing in October. The truth is I collected some of the articles and possible stories for years, I just chose some of them for inspiration and developing. It is what it is time and space for. 

4. What was one of the most surprising things you learned in creating your books?
Ans: Most things Connect sooner or later. 

5. Do you want each book to stand on its own, or are you trying to build a body of work with connections between each book?
Ans: I like that each chapter stands on it’ s own, it does not mean that it does not connect, but that it also stands on it’ s own. I guess all the Books will show some of the same. 

6. How many books you are going to launch this year? and which is your favourite genre?

Ans: I hope to launch another one in Contemporary Fiction next year. I am coming in an ART book in November.  

7. Do you hear from your readers much? What kinds of things do they say?

Ans: I’ ve been happy so far. I am glad there are so many great thinkers out there, they think of things not even I as an author think about. That make me glad on behalf of the homo sapiens spiecies. We do think! Maybe Descartes was right.!

8. How would you express your journey as an Author?
Ans: It has been a Wonderful ride so far, thanks to all my Wonderful Readers. 

9. What other things do you love than writing?
Ans: I love my children beyond beliefl. To be with them, family, friends, travel, bike, run, stay in the football field, make me happy.

10. And at last, What advice do you have for other writers?
Ans: Write. It is pretty much what counts. 


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