Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am about books and birds and bees and roses. And history. Historical fiction mined from the stories of my ancestors — America in the 19th century, civil war, gilded age, coal and coke and families. I’ve published two books (written more…), the first being AGNES CANON’S WAR. Agnes was my twice-great grandma. She’s amazing. Endured war on the Missouri frontier with all its brutality and heartbreak. And I am a librarian turned bureaucrat turned writer/gardener/hiker on the Oregon Coast; wife, mother, sister, daughter to a long line of extraordinary women.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
AN IRISH WIFE is my second and newest book; officially published in April 2021, a sequel (of sorts) to the first book about Agnes. The inspiration? to keep going the story and the memory of those people. Much more fiction than the first one (which was fiction, but lots of real stuff). Coal mining and Gilded Age and environmental destruction, raunchy politics, immigration nastiness, rich getting richer, poor getting shafted. Sound familiar? A coming-of-age story.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I don’t write much. Very undisciplined. I stare out the window at the bird feeder a lot.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Any wonderful, rich, detailed, lovely historical fiction — Shadow of the Moon, Code Name Verity, March, Brooklyn, War and Peace, Norwegian by Night, City of Light, The Year of the French. I could go on, but won’t.
What are you working on now?
Montana just after the Civil War, an Irish general-turned-governor (acting), a restless ex-union soldier one step ahead of his best girl, invasions of Canada and Metis rebellions. Fascinating stuff.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Don’t know — still experimenting. First book: very little on-line promotion other than Facebook. This one: all virtual. Just figuring out this discount ebook thing; fooling around with Instagram. We’ll see what happens.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write. Then write some more.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Write every day.
What are you reading now?
The Girl in Green by Derek B. Miller.
What’s next for you as a writer?
See above (what I’m working on now). One step at a time.
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?
War and Peace. Shadow of the Moon. The Bible (only because I really should read it, as a product of western civilization, and I’ve never been able to.) And through in the Koran, too — if I’m stuck I may as well learn from it.
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