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Lauren Liebenberg

Date: 25 June 2008
Place: Chocadore
Book: The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter & Jam
Date of Birth: 3 August 1972

   


1. Who is your favourite hero of fiction?
Ellis "Red" Reddy from The Shawshank Redemption.

2. What is your most treasured possession?
My photographs

3. Which living person do you most dislike?
Robert Mugabe

4. What is your greatest fear?
Drowning

5. Who or what has been the love of your life?
The African Wilderness

6. What is your greatest regret? 
The chances I've missed. I regret not having travelled more, and seen the world before I was married with children 

7. If you could choose to be a character in a book, who would it be?
Thelma - from Thelma & louise

8. Which book have you read the most in your lifetime?
Lord of the Rings

9. What is your favourite journey?
Overland through Sub-Saharan Africa

10. Cats or Dogs? Which do you prefer?
Dogs

11. What quality do you most admire in a women? 
Passion

12. Which book that you’ve written is your favourite?

    
 

13. What advice would you give to aspiring authors?
Be prepared for the agony of rejection.

14. What are your favourite names?
Erin & Conor

15. What do you do as a hobby?
Writing.

16. What are your top 3 books? 
Lord of the Rings by J R Tolkien, The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 

17. Where do you get your greatest ideas for writing?
Rummaging through my own memories and the memories of others.

   

Lauren & Amanda drink Champagne on the stairs outside Chocadore

Amanda Patterson, 25 June 2008

 

More photographs

    Lauren picks the winning numbers

 

       

 

 

Amanda Patterson speaks about how The Write Co started

 

Julia from Chocadore tastes the chocolates on the right

 

Amanda Patterson introduces Lauren Liebenberg

 

Gabor from Chocadore shows Lauren and Leanne how to taste chocolate

 

David Chislett & nicci Stewart

 

Sian & Carys Woodland

   

 

Michelle Mee, Michelle Kneisel and Tracy-Anne Mee

 

Bianca, Martin & Karen Oberholster

   

Ryan & Lisa Cooper, Steve Wright Crummeck

 

Sue Begg & Hazel Cuthbertson

 

Jason Aarons, Lauren Liebenberg & Leanne Harris

 

Sandy Goulding & Gregory Devereaux

 

Lwazi Koyana & Nicci Stewart

Chocadore in Hyde Park

 

Amanda Patterson & Jason Aarons thought it was amusing.

 

Lauren Liebenberg & Amanda Patterson were calmer

 

Nicci Stewart understands Hyde Park style

 

And there was hot chocolate...

 

And chocolates to take home...

Sweet dreams!