- What is your genre? Is it
fiction or nonfiction? Fiction/murder
mysteries
- What made you want to be a
writer?
I like to read.
- Of all the authors out there,
who inspired you most? Alexander Dumas and Jane Austen as a
teenager; right now Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See.
Each writer teaches me something new about how to tell a
story.
- What is your writing style?
Do you outline? Linearly? By scene? Why? I'm a hybrid seat-of-the-pants planner. I
begin where the story tells me to, typing as fast as I can to keep up, and when
the plot gets complicated, I start making a timeline that spans the entire
framework of the novel. The timeline isn't a cage. The story can escape from it
at any time, but it does help me to see where I'm
going.
- Do you write every day? How
much? How long? I write every day, including weekends; in the
morning for as long as it's productive, so sometimes for four hours, sometimes
longer. I don't count words or pages.
- Do you think reading is as
important to writing for an author? Why? Reading is critical to good writing. The more
you read, the more you discover about your craft. But it's also simply
pleasurable. Good brain food.
- What are some of the things
you would like to share with budding authors? Read everything. Write down lines when they
come. A good line can zoom by like a ping pong ball in a vacuum. Don't be in a
hurry; writing is a long process and it's okay if your first draft is a mess.
Get in a writers group that meets weekly and let other writers hold you
accountable.
- Do you have any marketing and
promotional advice, referrals, tips you would like to share? I'm still praying for a book maven to promote
my novel so I can reach that all-critical tipping
point!
- Do you think conferences are
beneficial? If so, what have you learned? Which ones do you
frequent?
Sometimes conferences are beneficial,
depending on who is speaking. I recently went to the F. Scott Fitzgerald Writers
Conference in October and was inspired by the presenters; two of whom were
Pulitzer Prize winners.
- Where can we find you, your
books and when is your next event? My novel, Cromwell's Folly, is
on Amazon, B&N, and wherever books are sold. In my local indie book store,
Four Seasons Books in Shepherdstown, it is one of the store's "best sellers" and
shares a shelf with The Martian and All the Light We Cannot
See, to my knee-buckling astonishment. My next signing event is
on Dec. 12th at the Christmas Market in Charles Town, WV from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
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