Author Lori A. Moore Joins us for Writer Wednesday

 It's Writer Wednesday and we are happy to have 

Lori A. Moore

here with us today!

Welcome!! 

Tell us a bit about yourself:

Do you work another job when you are not writing? 

Oh my gosh, yes!  A recovering workaholic, I used to work, no kidding, 7 simultaneous jobs!  Right now I’ve got it down to just a few.  I’m an adjunct business professor teaching at the graduate school level on topics including Marketing, Human Resources, and Ethics.  

What is your favorite thing to do when you aren’t writing?

Nap!  But when I’m not sleeping, I have a new found love for photography.  I especially like taking photos of flowers because I don’t have to worry about them smiling, moving, or making their butts look too big.

What is your favorite color? Why?

Maroon, but I’m not sure why.  Maybe it’s because my high school’s colors were maroon and white?

What is your favorite season? Why?

Definitely Autumn.  I like the crisp air, the beautiful colors of the leaves, and, dare I say it . . . Halloween.

If you could live anyplace on earth, where would it be? Why?

This is a trick question.  Why would you limit me to one place?  Having traveled extensively, I have found so many things to like about so many different places.  I’d like to be a nomad and live somewhere three months, then move on to a new place.

If you could have any car, what would it be? 

Anything that runs.  I’m not picky about automobiles.  I drive a 2011 Hyundai Tucson and I only average putting about 5,000 miles a year on a car.  Yeah, I should just walk.

Tell us about your writing: 

How long have your been writing? Was it a dream, a goal or is it just a hobby? 

When my former husband died in 2008, a friend who had lost her sister a couple of years earlier suggested that I journal as a way to deal with my grief.  I didn’t set out to be a published author.  My professors always said I write well, but that was academic papers and I didn’t realize I could write outside of that venue.

How many hours a day do you devote to writing? Do you have a set routine or do you write when the mood strikes?

Seriously?  You think I’m organized?  Nope, I just write when the mood strikes.

Is there some place special you like to be when you write? 

Not really.  I’ve been inspired to write in a notebook on a long plane ride and on a napkin during lunch.  I just never know when the inspiration is going to hit.

Do you listen to music or do you need a quiet place to write? 

Anywhere, anyplace, anytime.  I can write in the middle of a busy airport or in my office all alone with my kitties with no radio, no television, no noise.

Tell us about your books:

What is the name of it and is it part of a series or a stand-alone novel?

My first two books were written at the same time and are both Christian nonfiction/memoir books.  They are From Zero to Christian in Just 35 Years and Missing Andy.  My third book was a children’s book, Grady the Gray Cat Gets Adopted

Where did the ideas come from?  

All of my ideas come from real life experiences.  From Zero to Christian in Just 35 Years is about the fact that I had never been inside a church or heard the name Jesus until I was 35 years old.  It deals with understanding that it’s never too late to have a relationship with Jesus and there’s nothing so bad that you could have done to make Him not love you.  Missing Andy is about my husband who died in 2008 and explains how Christians deal with grief differently because they know where their loved ones are.  Grady the Gray Cat Gets Adopted is about my real little gray cat Grady who we adopted from an animal shelter when he was two years old. 

Your other work:

Do you have any upcoming projects in the works or other books that have been published? 

Yes, thank you for asking.  My newest book, releasing March 20, 2012, is another children’s book titled Hannah the Hedgehog goes to Heaven.  The inspiration, sadly, comes from the fact that my 15 and 17 year old kitties passed away in 2011.  The book is a flip book dealing with pet death.  One side is written from the perspective of the little girl, Lily, while the other side is written from the perspective of the pet who is dying, Hannah. 

Where can readers connect with you?

I’m not shy, so connect away!

Twitter:  @LoriMooreBooks

Website:  http://www.LoriBooks.com

Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/LoriMooreBooks

Where can we buy your books?

I can autograph them for you if you buy them directly from me through my website, http://www.LoriBooks.com.  

 They’re also on my publisher’s website, http://www.tatepublishing.com/bookstore/search.php?search=lori+a.+moore, and they’re also on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and most other online and chain bookstores. 

Character Interview Catharine Gredara from The Universal Mirror

Please welcome character 

Catharine Gredara

to our blog today!

She is the star of the book The Universal Mirror

Created by Gwen Perkins


Welcome Catharine!  So glad you could come visit with us today. 

So, Catharine, please introduce yourself and tell us about the story you star in.

My name is Catharine Gredara and I survived the Plagues.

Wow.... Seriously?

I say this first because it is the first—and last—thing that anyone notices about me.  The illness left me scarred outside and in.  I am proud of those marks in public—I pull my hair back so that everyone can see the damage to my face and I walk as tall as I can so that the world knows I am not afraid of my own ugliness.

That takes a lot of strength, and good for YOU!

In private, however, there are times in which I doubt myself.  I see what is left of the child that I was beneath the marks and I wonder whether it is possible for anyone, even my husband Quentin, to love what they cannot bear to see.  I can't let my own doubt control my life, however, and so I try as well as I can to fight it.

This sounds like a very painful journey for you. 

The Universal Mirror is the story of how Quentin tries to find a way to heal me, not knowing that his battle will take him into the depths of the city.  He and his friend Asahel turn grave robber as they search for ways to experiment with healing without doing harm.

Wow... grave robbing?  

In the process, they discover that the Plagues themselves are part of a much larger cycle and that, in order to save people like me, they must risk their own lives in doing what is right.  Quentin's adventures take him through the criminal underworld of Cercia, into palace ballrooms, and towards death itself.

This seems like a very intense and powerful story Catharine. 

We all want to be different, so what is the one thing you wish your creator had done differently with you?

I wish that I would have found it in myself to be more tender to those around me.  A lifetime of mistrust doesn't breed a gentle nature, however.  To change that part of myself would be to erase my history and I've never believed in that kind of erasure.

Erasing your history would have had a serious impact on your story. 

If you could have added something to the story, and your creator would have let you, what would that have been?

To tell my story from its beginning and explain what it was like to grow up as a young woman in a place that doesn't appreciate women as equal to the men around them.  There is much yet to uncover about Cercia, particularly in how magic interacts with people like me and I hope that she shows this in future tales. 

What do you love best about yourself? What do you like least?

I love most of all my independence and the fact that, in spite of the world that I live in, I haven't yet broken and become the woman that I'm expected to be.  When I think of what I like the least, it isn't what others would expect of me.  The plagues destroyed my beauty but I have little regret for that now as it made me the person that I am.  What I regret, however, is my inability to believe others when they tell me that it matters as little to them as it does to me.

I wonder if you will ever learn that this can be possible...

What part of the book was the hardest for you and your creator to work through?

Watching my husband commit progressively more destructive acts in an attempt to save something that I never wanted him to save—my physical appearance.  It hurt terribly to realize that he believed that was something that mattered to me so intensely when it did not.

That sounds like it would hard to deal with. 

Is there a sequel for this book? If so, what do you want to accomplish in the next book.  If not, do you wish you could continue your story?

My creator is writing the second book and intends for The Universal Mirror to be the first of a series, Artifacts of Empire.  I'm not featured in the second book but I will be the main character of the third in which two characters return home to find that my husband, Quentin, is now the ruler of our nation.  My life with him becomes difficult as his quest for power begins to transform him into a man that we both hated.  All that I can hope for is that I'm able to pull him away from this quest in time to save not only our marriage but our country.

Sounds like some very big plans in the future.  Thank you so much for visiting today and for sharing this with us!  

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Author Lawrence Fisher joins me for Writer Wednesday

 It's Writer Wednesday and we are happy to have 

Lawrence Fisher

here with us today!

Welcome!! 

Tell us a bit about yourself:

Do you work another job when you are not writing?

No, I go to work, I just don’t work there. They pay me enough to show up; my contract does not say that I need to do anything. Alas, that is not true. I wish. I work too many hours as a computer programmer.

What is your favorite thing to do when you aren’t writing?

Sleep! But if sleeps eludes me, then I like to train at a gymnasium or else do “research” for my sequel.

What is your favorite color? Why?

Anything I say will be used against me. Some reader will start googling to investigate what the color means. I suppose I had better say blue because that is the color of the interviewer’s blood and my eyes of course.

What is your favorite season? Why?

Summer! All the hot babes walk around with skimpy clothing so that I can have lots of eye exercise. If I even find a life partner, I will have to find a way of oogling without being noticed. Dark sunglasses? Any advice?

If you could live anyplace on earth, where would it be? Why?

NYC with the girl of my dreams. I have no idea why. Maybe it is because of Hollywood? Just had this dream. I was once offered a job in NYC but it feel through. The salary was not high enough for my liking. OK, I was a snob then. I asked them for an apartment on 5^th Avenue and they said “You keep dreaming…” so I did.

If you could have any car, what would it be?

A Ferrari. I love speed. What I would do with it, who knows. I can’t afford the insurance or the speeding ticket anyway. Or the gasoline. Maybe I can use my own gas?

Tell us about your writing:

How long have your been writing? Was it a dream, a goal or is it just a hobby?

Writing was never a dream, a goal or a hobby. I am a technical person. The only thing I like to write is code! But the ladies forced me into writing stories. If Zuckerberg got rich by writing code, maybe it is my turn? On the other hand, my book is not intended to hurt anyone.

How many hours a day do you devote to writing? Do you have a set routine or do you write when the mood strikes?

It is just when the mood strikes, or when someone makes a comment, or after “research”

Is there some place special you like to be when you write?

"I'd like to be under the sea" but not gonna happen so I will have to settle for the office. But when an idea strikes me, I start writing on my iPhone and then continue.

Do you listen to music or do you need a quiet place to write?

Nope. No rituals.  A coffee house, watching TV, on the toilet. Anywhere, except on my non-existing iPad.

Tell us about your book:

What is the name of it and is it part of a series or a stand alone novel?

Now, you are asking? Your readers are probably asking why I kept saying “research”. My book is called ‘Kill Me Now!” and it is about my escapades in the world of dating. As one reviewer said, “I die a thousand deaths at the heart of the femalic enemy.” Despite their better efforts, I am still alive and kicking. But as a result subsequent dates become my “research”. One woman asked me if she was going to be in the sequel. I told her that I did not see any reason to add her. She got upset with that and got angry with me, yelling at the top of her voice for all to hear: “Why not?” I answered: “Well, because until you started yelling at me, I happened to like you and I was even considering asking you out again. Thanks, but no thanks.” Despite that, she is not in the sequel.

Where did the idea come from? 

The idea came from a bad date. I had been out of the scene for a while and my friends were interested to hear how the date went. I told them, putting my own brand of humor on the story. They liked it so much. At first, I thought they were laughing at me but they were laughing with me. This turned into a very successful blog and a book was born.

How long did it take to write?

The book started out as a blog, so it was an ongoing process. So we can say that it took about 6 months.

Your other work:

Do you have any upcoming projects in the works or other books that have been published?

The sequel to “Kill Me Now” is in the works. I am now getting research stories from my “research”.

Where can readers connect with you?

My website is http://KillMeNow.org

My blog is http://KillMeNow.org/blog

Facebook: http://facebook.com/KMNow

Twitter: http://twitter.com/lbigfoot

Would love to hear from you

Where can we buy your books?

My books are sold on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and the publisher, iUniverse.

The links make be found on my web page: 
http://killmenow.org/buy-the-book/

Author Lisa Proulx joins us for Writer Wednesday!

 It's Writer Wednesday and we are happy to have 

Lisa Proulx

here with us today!

Welcome Lisa!!! 


Tell us a bit about yourself: 
I am a laid back 70's chick who loves to write! I have raised Rottweilers for over 13 years and I am a belly dancer! I have a goofy and whacky sense of humor and I love people and animals.

Do you work another job when you are not writing?  

Yes, I have been a feature writer and columnist for my local newspaper, The Brunswick Citizen for the last 11 years. I am also a professional pet sitter! Animals and writing are my passion!

What is your favorite thing to do when you aren’t writing? 
 I am a total homebody who LOVES to cook and bake! I also love being outdoors and working in my garden or mowing the grass. I also sell vintage clothing, groupie wear and rock star rags on eBay in my shop Mallie Victoria's Closet.

What is your favorite color? 
 I have a few, green, brown and pink.

Why?
I have always loved them because they remind me of warm weather and I just love the way they look together, esp brown and pink.

What is your favorite season? 
There is something so romantic about the Fall and October is my favorite month.
Why? 
I love October when the leaves change and the warm wind begins to blow and in that breeze, you can feel a slight chill of the winter that is on the way.

If you could live anyplace on earth, where would it be?
Although I dream of the tropics and a warm, inviting island, I am very content on living where I live now. 

Why? 
 Like I said, I am a homebody and I believe in putting down roots and staying there. I have been in the same area since 1968 and although I have lived other places, my childhood home is here and I bought it back in 2009. Any place my dog and my family are, is home to me.

If you could have any car, what would it be?
I have an awesome Purple PT Cruiser which I love but I also love Jeeps and Hummers. I love rugged vehicles with names like Outback, Wrangler, etc. :)

Tell us about your writing: 

How long have you been writing?
 I wrote my first horror story when I was about eight years old. It was about a little girl who was a witch and it was called, "Lily Was a Witch" from there I just took off. In 9th grade, my poem, "Screams of No Reply" got the attention of my 9th grade English teacher and she had it printed in the paper. I got a lot of positive feedback and I felt like a celebrity.

Was it a dream, a goal or is it just a hobby?
It is my desire to be on the NY Times Best Seller List. Writing is not a hobby for me. I am very serious about my stories and my books, this means a lot to me.

How many hours a day do you devote to writing?
I spend about 8-10 hours a day online, writing, promoting, marketing, answering mail, blogging, etc. Plus my normal interviews and stuff I do for the paper.

Do you have a set routine or do you write when the mood strikes?
 The mood always strikes me to write! I even keep a pad and pen by my bedside and in my car so I can write down ideas when they come to me and believe me, they always come to me! :)

Is there some place special you like to be when you write? 
 I have a library in my home that I have done up in an English Gothic style. I also like to write when I am laying in the sun in my lounge chair.

Do you like to listen to music or do you need a quiet place to write?
Although I love music, I need peace and quiet when I am writing but I have been known to write just about anywhere. I can get lost in my own thoughts.

Tell us about your book: 
My latest book, THE RAINBOW WON'T WAIT, is a tribute to my mother Victoria whom I lost to cancer in 2006. It is a dying mother's advice for the obstinate daughter she is leaving behind.

When I lost my mother in 2006, I could have been a better daughter. I tried to be the daughter that my mother wanted and needed at this time of sorrow but I didn't know how to be that person.

In a collection of short pieces of advice, I have put together words of comfort and wisdom that my Cherokee mother gave me over the years. I never knew at the time, that this advice would help me as I took care of a dying parent. It also served as a catalyst to help me regain my footing after a series of tragedies following my mother's death, left me in a crippling, suicidal depression for three years.

It is a story of hope, inspiration and how a briar of a child became the flower that her mother always dreamed of...but died before she got a chance to see her bloom.


Where did the idea come from?
 I was driving home one day and it had been snowing. I am terrified of driving in the snow and ice and I happened to see a snow plow up ahead. I remembered the advice that my mother gave me to "always drive behind the snow plow" and I thought, what a cool title for a book. The idea started out as a funny tale of some of her more humorous advice but as I began to write it, it came out quite differently.

How long did it take to write?
I began writing it after my mom passed away in 2006 and it took me less than a year to complete it. But I have gone over and over it and revised it several times since I began.

What is it about?
My mom had a saying, "The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work" and that is where the title came from. The book is a collection of advice from my Cherokee mother that she gave me over the years. The advice helped me to cope with caring for a dying parent and then it helped me as I struggled after her death.

Your other work:  
I started my journey writing horror novels and although I still write them, after my mother's death, I felt compelled to write more inspirational tales of personal growth through tragedy and loss. I have several horror novels out now, they are the vampire novel PUNCTURE, DRAGGED INTO DARKNESS, the ghost story BENEATH THE BATTLEFIELD and KING OF SHADOWS.

I also have a desire to become a motivational speaker. I want to heal others with my words and make a difference in people's lives.

Do you have any upcoming projects in the works or other books that have been published? 
I am trying my hand at a paranormal romance, another horror novel about a vampire child and two other books about my mother. One, is her life story growing up during the Depression and living in coal mining camps in West Virginia and Kentucky. The other is about an after death experience she had back in the 1950's. I am looking for an agent or a publisher for those as well.

Where can readers connect with you?  
My home email is Magicforest@peoplepc.com or at any of the sites below.



Blog: http://lisavproulx.wordpress.com/ ;

FaceBook Author Fan Page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lisa-V-Proulx-Author-Fan-Page/223212131077410 ;

Smashwords Author Profile: http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/lisavproulx

Where can we buy your books? They are all on Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble Nook and many other sites. Plus you will be able to purchase them at any of the sites below.
 

Character Interview Taci Andrews from Deadly Reunion

Please welcome character 

Taci Andrews

to our blog today!

She is the star of the book Deadly Reunion

Created by Amy Manemann

So readers... I read this book and I loved it.  Loved the style, loved the story and I wanted you all to hear a bit about the character.  So please say hello to my guest today!

My name is Taci Andrews. I’m an investigative reporter for the Riverdale Times in Riverdale Iowa and my somewhat normal (albeit solitary and somewhat pathetic) life has suddenly become more complicated than a single bag of double stuffed Oreos can handle. 

I love that you are a double stuffed Oreo girl!  What happens in your story Taci?

After my counterpart at the Times, Richard Owens (aka the snake) disappears while working a missing child feature I get thrown into the story of my career. 

I agree with your nickname for him, he was a snake! 

What should have been a highlight for me quickly goes south when I realize my career busting story is centered around Jason and Valerie McAllister, two vile people from my high school days I would rather avoid like the plague. Nicknamed Barbie and Ken for their perfection they gave it their best effort to make my life miserable in high school and the thought of cozying up to them for a feature story is leaving a bad taste in my mouth. 

Oh I know people like that too. 

Speaking of which I just received an invitation to my fifteen year high school reunion and Valerie’s in charge this year. My week just keeps getting better. 

School Reunions are horrible! 

To regroup I meet my best friends, Annie Brown and Melanie Hastings for lunch at our favorite haunt, Milroy’s. It’s Thursday. A day for coworker bashing, gossip and fun girl time, which gets interrupted when a blast from our past, former classmate fireman Tony Parsons, shows up.

Yummy... Tony.... I meant the food. Yeah.. that's it. 

To say Parsons and I were friends in school would be stretching it. In third grade he looked up my skirt during our Christmas Pageant and told everyone about my little pony underwear; I gave him a black eye. In ninth grade I actually let him put his hand up my shirt, which he then turned around and told everyone my actual cup size. So I gave him another black eye. 

I love that!  You go girl! 

I have to admit the grown up version of Parsons is definitely sexier than the adolescent version but it’s yet another complication I don’t need right now. Apparently he doesn’t hone in on my desire to avoid him because shortly after running into him the man begins to pop up everywhere I go. I can’t deny that he actually makes for a nice distraction and the dimples that appear in his cheeks make my stomach do flip flops, but I get the feeling he doesn’t think I’m capable of handling any trouble I run in to. 

He's just being a man - they don't think we can handle anything. Fools! 

OK, in truth he might have a point. After all someone did put a slashed up mannequin with a picture of my face attached to it in my apartment as a warning. 

That was very strange. 

And we did find out there were traces of an explosive found on the mannequin. Plus I did sort of receiving a threatening phone call. But seriously, was it really necessary to camp out on my living room couch or follow me to the Laundromat? Sure the man made one helluva breakfast and gave good tips on fabric softener but I somehow doubted the sexy fireman with deep blue bedroom eyes was in it for the long haul. 

Nice thought though, huh? 

Against my libido’s better judgment I better stick to the facts and focus on my story, because with my tingling spidey senses I have a feeling this is the biggest story to be uncovered in Riverdale, Iowa.

So far.

Very intriguing Taci... Very intriguing.  Let me ask you a few questions...

I know that we all want to be different, so what is the one thing you wish your creator had done differently with you? 

Bigger boobs, definitely. Just kidding. I’d probably say I wish I could live in a fancier apartment building or at least drive a rockin’ cool car like Gavyn Davis. Seriously, how fair is it that he drives a Beamer while I have a crappy Honda Civic?

lol....  Too funny! 

If you could have added something to the story, and your creator would have let you, what would that have been? 

Definitely a few more steamy scenes with Parsons. What can I say, the man is hot!

Oh I agree!  I'd like a few more scenes with him too! 

What do you love best about yourself, Taci? What do you like least? 

What I love best about myself is that I’m my own person. I’m not afraid to speak my mind and do what needs to be done. What I like least would probably be my big mouth. I tend to have “blurt disease” and my mouth gets me in trouble from time to time. 

lol... Blurt Disease.... that is hysterical!  

What part of the book was the hardest for you and your creator to work through? 

Well in case you didn’t notice it took the entire book for me to come to terms with attending my high school reunion, so I would say that was probably the hardest obstacle we overcame. Getting blown up was way easier.

I might have to agree with you on that.  The through of attending my own reunion gives me the hives! 

Now I believe there is a sequel, that is it about? 

Of course there’s a sequel, how else are you going to find out what happens with me and Parsons? In the next book I’m hoping we can come to terms with the fireworks that seem to ignite between us and I think my creator has a few more surprises in store for everyone. 

Oh man!! Are you done with that book yet?  Cuz I really want another Tony fix!!! If you decide you don't want him - send him my way please! 

Taci - Thank you so much for joining up today!  So glad you could be here to talk about Deadly Reunion!  I loved the book and I hope others take the time to check it out!  

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Shawn Marvel joins us for Writer Wednesday!

 It's Writer Wednesday and we are happy to have 

Shawn Marvel

here with us today!

Welcome!! 

Tell us a bit about yourself:

Do you work or go to school when you are not writing? 

When I started writing I was going to school but I stopped when the curriculum got a bit too hard to balance with my writing. As an Army wife I’ve been a bit uprooted in the last few months, having moved from Germany to New York, and writing has been a bit of a project in itself. But I’ve been looking for a job and a boost for writing equally since arriving in New York. Hopefully I find both! I feel that working  or taking classes gives me a break, something to pull me away and keep me thinking about different things. If I’m not doing something else I’m bound to get writer’s block sooner or later! 

What is your favorite thing to do when you aren’t writing?

I enjoy an array of things, I guess it depends on the situation. On a regular day I enjoy reading or taking walks. I enjoy interior design and little projects that I kind of make up as I go. For example, right now I’m refurbishing some black picture frames with scrapbook paper to make them more interesting. I like to be creative or active if I can. Up in New York we’re pretty far away from everything so it’s the simple things really.

What is your favorite color? Why?

My favorite color is green, as a twin my parents dressed my sister and I in different colors to make it easier. She wore colors like red and pink, I wore green and blue. I like pink now a lot more than I used to but there’s something about green. Sage, light green, different shades. In fact, I have a pretty interesting story about the color green. My family; my parents, my sister, and me were at the beach when we were about five years old and Erika ran up ahead on the board walk and came back with a red shovel. It was a little damaged but she was so excited that she’d found it. I was pretty upset of course and declared that I was going to find a green one. My parents knew that by the end of our trip to the beach that they’d need to get me a shovel, otherwise they’d never hear the end of it. So we continued along and made our way down to the beach. A while later I ran up ahead and returned to my family with a big grin on my face and a green shovel in my hand. My parents were freaked out-like they had some kind of voodoo child. It’s a story that’s kind of stuck to me. I have “green shovel moments” now and then where I find money somewhere or other strange things. I guess it’s a color that’s come to define me in some strange way.

What is your favorite season? Why?

I was born in July so I guess I’ve always loved summer best. I’m from New Jersey so we get all four seasons but summer is just refreshing and it feels slower somehow. I don’t rush inside because it’s cold; I linger under the summer sun. People seem happier in the summer time too.

If you could live anyplace on earth, where would it be? Why?

I would love to live in Venice. During my husband’s deployment to Iraq we drove down from our home in Germany and spent a week in Northern Italy and one of our first stops was Venice. It was breathtaking. The atmosphere, the colors, the buildings and architecture.  There are just no words!

If you could have any car, what would it be? 

I would have the 1967 Ford Mustang Fastback. I actually incorporated that car in my latest novel, The Wanderer. But really, any American muscle car as long as it was the body style I liked. The camero, mustang, challenger, charger, I like them all. I’ve incorporate a few of them in my books actually, it’s a way of being able to have my dream cars without spending the money!

Tell us about your writing:

How long have your been writing? Was it a dream, a goal or is it just a hobby? 

I’ve always loved to write but I really started to take it seriously four years ago when my husband enlisted in the Army. It was around then that I’d started reading—it took me a while to pick up the interest in reading. My sister and I both started writing our own books and helped one another as we went. Once my husband deployed I started writing Volition, my first published novel. From there I wrote its sequel, Severance and then shortly after publishing Volition I wrote The Wanderer. Writing was never really a dream, it ended up being a form of emotional distraction. I’d always enjoyed it, like I said, but I never imagined getting this far.

How many hours a day do you devote to writing? Do you have a set routine or do you write when the mood strikes?

I don’t devote a certain amount of time. I’ve tried that but I’m not very good at keeping a regiment. Sometimes inspiration strikes when I least expect it, like at one in the morning. Some days I don’t write at all. Other days I write for hours. Though I do hope to try and set up a schedule of some kind once things settle down here.

Is there some place special you like to be when you write? 

I used to write at our kitchen table in Germany but now the only furniture we have is a bed. It’s not my desired writing spot. I would prefer a table top or desk. The keep is that I don’t strain my back by hunching or slouching. I’ve had to take a few days off on occasion because I wasn’t sitting the right way.

Is there anything out of the norm about your writing style?

I only use two fingers to type, like JRR Tolkien. I took a typing class in school but I just type faster this way and I never really picked up the proper way to type. I’m a lefty, you might blame that. Some people might argue that it’s not very fast but I wrote The Wanderer in only two months, so it’s not too bad all things considered!

Do you listen to music or do you need a quiet place to write? 

I use music to help inspire certain scenes or help provide inspiration while I’m away from the computer and brainstorming, but I can’t fully concentrate if I’m listening to music while writing. I’ll play a little then stop and write and go like that until the music has provided what inspiration I want.

Tell us about your book:

What is the name of your latest novel, and is it part of a series or a stand alone novel?

My latest novel is called, The Wanderer. It’s stand alone novel about a former Army soldier. He packs up his motorcycle and heads across country in the hopes of finding answers and closing up a few battle wounds if he can help it. He’s never been attached and has always been a loner in life. But when he meets Max Abrams he is faced with a fierceness he’s never been up against before. A woman who doesn’t try to change him or hold him back. A woman who cares for him and loves him for who he is. This, he finds, is even scarier than the women in his past who wanted to change him. In the book Landon meets a collection of people and shares his story while finding his way and realizing that he can only run for so long.

Where did the idea come from?  

It sounds shallow but I really just loved the idea of a man in uniform on a motorcycle and wanted to write a story about it. I knew that he needed to be retired and that all he had in life was going to be his bike, the open road, and his battle scars. From there I needed to find a girl who could handle all of that and from there I had to figure out what their story would be.

Your other work:

Do you have any upcoming projects in the works or other books that have been published?

My first series, Volition and Severance fall under the YA Paranormal genre. They were published about a year ago. I’m still not sure if I’ll be writing a third book but I won’t be unless I decide on a flawless plot that blows the other two out of the water. Until then it’s just the two books.

Where can readers connect with you?

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Where can we buy your books?

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