Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’ve been writing for ages. I started with poetry and song lyrics. Then we moved to Alaska in the 1970s. I wrote the first novel that winter in a cabin in rural Alaska. In long hand, I wrote in the loft while trying to keep warm. For many years I kept upgrading it from computer program to new program. Since publishing it early 2007, I’ve written and published over 30. All are romances in some guise.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
A Snake by the Tail is an offshoot from the first space romance written exclusively in the Stellar Unite Nations Universe. Another author created that world and I love creating in it. Then again, science fiction was my first love.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
The love of my life who died several years ago have a bad case of insomnia. On the weekends when he could sleep in, I didn’t. So I learned to be extremely silent. When I’m writing all you hear is the click of the keys on the keyboard.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
I said I was a science fiction fan. Anne McCaffrey. Isaac Asimov, and Ursula K. Le Guin. Then I discovered romance books; Mary Stewart for one.
What are you working on now?
That would be telling, ha, ha. Seriously, I have a pen name I’ve kept close to the vest and what I’m working on has to do with the Cherokee tribe and their involvement in both the American Civil War and slavery. It’s a bit of a twisted tale. The Civil War was a war of brothers both between the North and South and those caught on the fringes.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
To be honest, I’m horrid at promoting. I’d rather be writing and don’t pay as much attention to marketing as I should. I tend to impulse promote. Not a great strategy.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Short of ending up in jail or dead, experience everything you can. It’s all useful when writing.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Take the chance when it rolls around, it may never come again.
What are you reading now?
Working my way through the In Death series again while reading romantic suspense, regency and Victorian mysteries. Just finished a few space romances and have preordered another.
What’s next for you as a writer?
Right now, I’m planning on working more in the SUN Universe. It’s a great place to let your imagination free.
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?
Dragon Riders of Pern, Naked In Death, The Word for World is Forest, Fantastic Voyage
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