Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am an editor, writing coach, and author. My whose emotionally charged stories remind the reader that God is always in the details. I’ve contracted three series. Stalking Willow and Better than Revenge, Books 1 and 2 in the Amazing Grace romantic suspense series are currently available for purchase. Charisse and Libby the first two novels in her The Ties That Bind contemporary romance series have been released. I have also had the pleasure of collaborating on four romance novellas: The Christmas Three Treasure Hunt, A Ruby Christmas, A Dozen Apologies, and the newest adventure The Love Boat Bachelor. An adventurous spirit has taken me into the realm of non-fiction with The Art of Characterization: How to Use the Elements of Storytelling to Connect Readers to an Unforgettable Cast.
Storms in Serenity (release February 2015), is the first novel in the Serenity Key series.
Future releases from me will be: Everybody’s Broken and Frozen Notes, Books 3 and 4 of Amazing Grace and Hope and Delilah, Books 3 and 4 from The Ties that Bind.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The Love Boat Bachelor is a multi-collaborative novella released by my publisher, Write Integrity Press. This novella sprang from last year’s A Dozen Roses, and is actually a sequel to that novella. Write Integrity Press writers are a family, and we enjoying working together. The Valentine’s novellas are known because we allow the readers to vote for their favorite hero or heroine to win the lead character. We always make the voting “blind” as we don’t want readers voting on the author but on the character. We find it so much fun to cheer each other on, and we love it when we hear that the work reads as if it was written by one individual. That is our greatest compliment.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I tend to not write for awhile. Then I sit and write until I have a work completed, critique, edited, and ready for the publisher. On occasion, I’ll get in the rhythm of a daily word count, but my life is more than hectic these days. I do what I can to get the best out of story.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
As an editor, I am constantly being influenced my new writers every day. As an author, James A. Michener intrigued me. My writing is so unlike his, but yet, get past the ancient bubbling oozing of evolution, which I do not believe in, and into the meat of the story, no one wrote better than Mr. Michener. I’m actually writing a novel similar to The Drifters, a story of lost youth within the culture of the 1960s. My novel is set in current day and centers around the world of professional surfing.
What are you working on now?
I’m currently working on the third novel in my Amazing Grace series. Everybody’s Broken. This romantic suspense novel once again takes the reader to the fictional town of Amazing Grace, North Carolina and introduces you to Abra Carmichael and Shane Browne and their families, who are all broken over the death of one man and the mystery surrounding his death. When death comes looking for Abra, she and Shane must find a way to ferret out the killer before he can take the life of anyone else they love.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I love websites that our for readers. Writers get caught up in the promotion, but often they aren’t talking to their audience. Instead, they’re talking to the same individuals (authors) who are seeking the same audience (readers), and we never get out of that circle. So websites like Awesome Gang and others who introduce readers to writers are the best.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Don’t give up. Never give up. However, don’t work forward unless you’re in a critique group you can trust and you are continuing learning the art of story.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
When it comes to networking it is not what you can get from others but what you can give. Volunteer without thought of what you will get out of it. You’ll be wealthier in friendship and in business for the long run.
What are you reading now?
I have just finished Veiled at Midnight by Christine Lindsay, an excellent novel in an excellent series. I am in the process of reviewing my to-be-read pile as I want to find my next interviewee for my blog, Inner Source, in which I interview the author and a character about the story.
What’s next for you as a writer?
A new magazine, Imaginate, is being launched in June of this year. I hope to be a part of this innovate work that will bring reader and writers together with author interviews, writing contests, photography contests, reviews, and so much more.
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 as it is the source of all my inspiration; Michener’s The Drifters, Redeeming Love, by Francine Rivers, and the last book would have to be a “How-to” on getting off a desert island because once I’m finished re-reading the books I brought with me, I’d be desperate for more.
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