Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I teach at a community college in Texas. I studied creative writing under Caroline Gordon at the University of Dallas. I hold a Ph.D from Texas Woman’s University.
Here are my two new books:
1) Outskirts of the Woods : Poems, Plays, Essays & a Biography
2) Josephine’s Journey : Adventures & Misadventures in the 1960s
Both are available on Amazon (and free with Kindle Unlimited)
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Josephine’s Journey is my newest book.
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Josephine marries folk singer Jonathan, moves to San Francisco and begins her new adventures and misadventures, encountering Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Dr. David Smith, and Charles Manson. Josephine delivers a beautiful baby and enters U. C. Berkeley. She joins the Free Speech movement and learns that free speech is not the goal of its organizers. With the help of two wise women who have escaped prisons in the Soviet Union and Cuba, and another lady who was deceived by her civil rights group, Josephine discovers many social justice organizations have corrupt roots. Josephine & Jon covert to Catholicism, but Jonathan ventures away to sit at the feet of an Indian guru. The journey ends in 1969.
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It was inspired by reading RADICAL SON by David Horowitz.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I write everywhere: Parks, lakes, cafes, fast-food joints, malls, and even sometimes at home.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
ON THE ROAD (Jack Kerouac), Sylvia Plath’s THE BELL JAR, Charlotte Bronte’s JANE EYRE,
THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers.
What are you working on now?
I am working on a new play titled “Intersections,” loosely based on the first Clyde Barrow murder, from the victim’s point of view.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Amazon Author Pages.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Don’t give up.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Critics can be wrong, but give them a listen anyway.
What are you reading now?
NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND by Dostoevsky.
What’s next for you as a writer?
To finish my novel HIDDEN CANDLE about a young woman in Nazi Germany.
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
The Bible
Making Sense of Suffering, by Peter Kreeft
Collected works of W. B. Yeats
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
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