7 Questions

Seven Questions is a section of Newsnibbles where we ask one of our Twitter followers seven questions (duh).  Because we do it via email they are free to answer in more that 140 characters, which is nice.

Today’s is a bit different in that our participant found us in a Facebook group, but since we aren’t prejudice we went with it!

Cat Cale speaks six languages, plays music and has recently published her first novel, all at the age of sixteen!  We just had to find out a bit more.

1. Six languages, wow! Did you live all around the world or are you just interested in language?

My dad is German and my mum is Scottish so I grew up bilingual. When I was 7, I moved to Spain where I had to learn Spanish and Valenciano, a regional language that most people in my town spoke. Then, of course, when I entered secondary we started to learn French. Finally, the year before last I started learning Italian for a GSCE exam. Even though, I’ve now lived in 3 different countries, I would say that I am just interested in languages and that it comes quite naturally for me.

2. What would you say the inspiration for your book was?

I hadn’t written anything in ages and one day I began to write a letter to my boyfriend. It was probably just filled with cliched stuff but it gave me the idea for my book. Basically, it started off with me picturing a newspaper or magazine with a headline that suggested that (what would later become) the two main characters (the writer Ruby and the musician Oli) of my book had been in a relationship when they were younger. I thought it was something that I could play on because obviously the media isn’t always right (especially when it comes to celebrities).

3. Some people might say that 16 is too young to have published a novel, what would you say to them?

I don’t think age matters that much. At the moment, I am still learning, but publishing my book is an experience that I can learn from. I know that this book isn’t going to be the best that I will write because there will be many more to come and each time I will learn something new. Therefore, each book will get better. So, it doesn’t matter if I’m publishing a book at 16 because it will hopefully just be the first of many and I have and will learn from it. Plus, the young age means more years of experience when I’m older, people my age will only be starting to publish books then.

4. Where do you stand on the controversial “pet couture” debate?

I’m not so sure about this debate, I don’t know much about it. Howbeit, I’d say it probably is wrong for us humans to dress animals. We seem to think that we are the most superior creatures and that everything has to be how we want it. These animals should have rights too. I have seen people forcing their unwilling pets into outfits they don’t want to wear. In contrast, if the animal isn’t too fussed then why should we be? Although, I don’t understand why we’d want to dress pets anyway.

5. Who is your favourite author, and if you could ask them one question, what would it be?

I think my favourite author would be JK Rowling or Gayle Forman. I admire JK Rowling because of how clever and creative her stories are. Also, at the age of 6 we both wrote a book originally named ‘Rabbit’, however mine was later changed to ‘Thumper’. Gayle Forman, on the other hand, managed to captivate me with emotional story lines. If I could ask them both one question it would probably what moment in their life inspired the best of their story lines.

6. Who or what would you say inspires you?

To be honest, I’d say that musicians inspire me a lot. There are a lot of songs that have their own stories that motivate me to change the path of my book. The Wombats, The Kooks, The 1975, Paramore and Ed Sheeran are the main people that I listen to. A lot of their music is upbeat and makes me feel happy enough to write. Otherwise, I just love buying colourful notebooks and using colourful pens to write my stories. Having these colours surrounding me motivates me and makes me want to finish the notebooks to be able to buy more. Plus, I also have quite encouraging people surrounding me too.

7. What would be the ideal soundtrack to your novel?

If you read my book, you’ll find out as I have mentioned quite a few songs that would fit in certain scenes. Basically, it was all of the songs that I was in to at the time of writing my book. They are mostly from the artists that inspire me. However, as one of the characters is a musician, his music would soundtrack my novel quite nicely when he tours Europe.
And you can find Cat’s debut novel on Amazon Kindle, or Like her on Facebook.
And if you would like to answers 7 Questions, then get in touch.
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