BOOKS BY FRIENDS, BOOK ORNAMENTS AND A NEW FAVOURITE AUTHOR We all have, from time to time, some kind of collection. Some last a lifetime, others are limited to a specific time of our lives, or the sheer volume proves unmanageable and we have to part with all, or some...
How has traveling across the US formed your storytelling? From my days as a child traveling by car from my first home in Pittsburgh, PA to Southern California, I would imagine confederate soldiers coming out of the swamps to attach us northerners along the highway....
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Summer allows us some extra time to read, if we are lucky. Vacation time can be a manic organization of activities and travel, but escaping for a while into a good book and allowing ourselves to relax and feed our souls is just as...
Firstly, apologies for the late post, I was enjoying a long Easter weekend in Jasper and forgot to schedule a post. However, I hope you enjoy this story, which was the result of a writing prompt. Misjudged or Not Aiden sat trembling in the chair; he’d been roughly sat...
For author’s the definition of their fiction into a specific genre can be either simple, or difficult, depending on their choice of subject matter, or trope. You may write stories based on books you enjoy reading and therefore, have a good understanding of the reader...
Where did the initial idea for the Cat Lady series originate? The initial idea for Cat Lady actually came during a 5 hour-drive. I was coming home from a romance convention and somehow the idea that I needed a romance book hit me. Most of the books I had at the time...
Hop on over to see my interview with Simon Rose today. An interview with Mandy Eve-Barnett Mandy Eve-Barnett is a multi-genre author writing children’s, YA, and adult books full of adventure and surprising twists in plot and genre. Her passion for writing emerged...
1. Where did the idea for Catalyst come from? While I have admittedly never READ a mafia romance, I am obsessed with the history and lore behind several of the world's successful crime organizations. Chicago alone has a long history with the mafia but all over...
How long have you been writing? I have been writing since 1987. I started as a journalist, went to college in my 40s, and continued to write after that. My first book, “A River of Stones” was published in 2002. You write in multiple genres – do you start with the...