A Bite of… Claire Buss

So we tracked down Claire Buss and set about perplexing her with some deviously difficult dilemmas!

Q1: Cake or scones?

Now you’re actually asking an English person to choose between cake & scones when it’s a well know fact that scones form part of afternoon tea or high tea if you’re super posh. Afternoon tea not only comes with ridiculously small and pointless sandwiches it also comes with delicious cakes of which scones are one option. Together with jam and cream. In fact, the definition of scone is as follows:

scone – skɒn,skəʊn

noun

 1.

1. a small unsweetened or lightly sweetened cake made from flour, fat, and milk and sometimes having added fruit.

If you had asked me whether it was scone or scone, I might have been able to answer.

Q2: Which is your favourite British iconic symbol?

I love that we have a royal family. I can’t quite explain what it is about them that fills me with such national pride. It might have been that I was born within days of Charles & Diana’s wedding so maybe I absorbed all that patriotism whilst still in the womb. My own little boy was born within days of Prince George and together we have waved our nation’s flag and cheered loudly when the Queen came to visit our little borough.

Q3: Would you rather be a dragon or a unicorn?

Dragon because … look, I don’t want to go into it but everyone knows that unicorns can’t be trusted. It’s all those rainbows coming out of their ass. And who in their right mind would want a horn in the middle of their forehead? Dragons, now dragons get to horde gold and be bad tempered and eat anyone they don’t like. What’s not to love?

 

Claire Buss is a science fiction, fantasy & contemporary writer based in the UK. She wanted to be Lois Lane when she grew up but work experience at her local paper was eye-opening. Instead, Claire went on to work in a variety of admin roles for over a decade but never felt quite at home. An avid reader, baker, and Pinterest addict Claire won second place in the Barking and Dagenham Pen to Print writing competition in 2015 setting her writing career in motion. The Gaia Effect, the winner of the Favourite Fantasy/Sci-Fi book Raven Award, was published in 2016 and Tales from Suburbia in 2017.

You can catch up with Claire all over social media on Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Google+ and Youtube or on her own website. You can also follow her peregrinations through publishing and other traumas on her blog But I Don’t Like Salad.

You can also find Claire’s very first flash fiction here on the blog.