Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m freelance writer, editor, journalist, piano teacher and dabbler in other trades too numerous to mention. I have a bachelor’s degree in music and worked for 30 years in the news business.
I’ve written 5 books, one is published so far; the others are in various stages of readiness.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The Not-Ready-for-Juilliard-Players was inspired by good, bad and outrageous experiences I observed while studying music at a community college.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Arthur Conan Doyle, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Jane Austen, JR Moehringer, JK Rowling, Stephen King.
What are you working on now?
A detective series set in Maplewood, Missouri, featuring a female private detective who is a former journalist and lawyer.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Still to be determined!
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Go ahead on and do it. There are umpteen books, magazines, blogs, classes and seminars about how to write. But at some point, you have to stop reading about it and just do it.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Go ahead on and do it.
What are you reading now?
Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce.
What’s next for you as a writer?
Doing more book writing and less client work. And publishing the books I’ve already written.
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 Stand (Stephen King)
Mansfield Park (Jane Austen)
The Tender Bar (JR Moehringer)
The next Tana French book
How long am I going to be stranded?
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