Where I’m Coming From
Compiled by Forrest Preece
Cindy Stone
www.treatyoakpublishers.com
Author (as Cynthia Stone) of Mason's Daughter, Mason's Keeper, & Mason's Fool
Carly and Star for middle grade and young teens
- What’s something about you that not many people know?
I'm not just from West Austin. From birth (at the old Brackenridge Hospital), I've lived in Travis Heights, Hyde Park, Tarrytown, Allandale, Pemberton Heights, and NW Hills.
- What was your first job?
At Yaring's on the Drag in the cosmetics department, while a senior in high school (the old AHS on 12th St.)
- If you could have dinner with three people – dead or alive, at any time in history—who would they be?
Elizabeth Taylor, Abraham Lincoln, and Vincent van Gogh
- If you had to pick three musicians for a playlist, who would they be?
John Denver, Yo-Yo Ma, and Andrea Bocelli
- Favorite book and TV show?
All of Jane Austen's books (reread them every five years), Law & Order with Sam Waterston
- Most powerful movie you have seen.
Out of Africa - I was so engrossed, I forgot I was sitting in a theater
- Favorite place in Austin?
Anywhere with Gerald, usually dining or dancing.
- Favorite restaurant and watering hole
El Mercado North - grilled shrimp tacos and Mexican martinis!
- What did you want to be when you were growing up?
A writer - wrote my first short story when I was five. My mother typed it for me, then taught me to type.
- Which living person do you most admire?
My son Jordan - he's so talented, creative, kind, smart, and generous
- What makes you happy?
Sharing meals with good friends and family
- Best advice you ever received?
The path to true happiness is learning to let go.