Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I completed my first book about ten years ago to make my sister laugh on her birthday. She tells me she reads it twice a year! However, I used an old print-on-demand service and ordered two. I have the other copy to my mother. This is truthfully my second work, but my first publicly published one!
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is called And Riley Runs. It is the result of a middle-of-the-night nightmare or waking dream. I loved the idea of a young, lost girl who calls hey mother for comfort and help. Some details changed. Honestly, the story wrote itself through me!
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I have to write while listening to The Great Pumpkin Waltz from the Charlie Brown series. I really do. I’ve written both books this way.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Agatha Christie and Barbara Michaels each infuse an appreciation for human traits that develop characters without necessarily using those traits to further the story. It’s like they are real people stuck in a story. I love it.
What are you working on now?
I’m testing my writing chops by writing a weekly serial on Instagram. In know, right?? I never thought I could do it, but I’m enjoying it. I don’t even know how it’s going to end, and readers are messaging me about this story as I post the segments! It’s great!
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I’m still in learning mode, quite honestly. In a year, I’ll have an actual answer.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
I’m a mostly new author myself, so I don’t have sage advice. However, I will say “Don’t decide not to do something you feel you should do just because you don’t see someone else doing it. Do it.” It pays off to be you and no one else.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
“A man may smile and smile and be a villain.” It’s not advice, but I loved it when I heard it in Hamlet and I look forward to fashioning a character with this back story. That is from Hamlet, isn’t it? It’s also a warning and I appreciate it because I’m optimistically cynical. I long for a villain’s moustache to twirl.
What are you reading now?
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin and
Go by Kazuki Kaneshiro.
These are a bit highbrow for me as I prefer a good old murder mystery.
What’s next for you as a writer?
A book series based off of my short story and a relaunch of my very first book!
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?
Here Come The Brides by Bernard Glemser
Ammie Come Home by Barbara Michaels
Edge of Glass by Catherine Gaskin
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (my reading chair is named after her)
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