Last week, I was rather popular with two podcast interviews. The first with A Hot Take on Thursday with Jenna Greene and Miranda Oh and then another with Alive After Reading with Tim Niederriter You can find the links here: A Hot Take Talking story locations and...
Your novels tend to have unexpected protagonists/settings. Was this a conscious decision or the spark of an idea that evolved? My ideas hit me just as unexpected. It is not like I want to come up with this or that like a contract writer where an idea is developed and...
You have experienced a multitude of jobs – have these experiences given you insights for the characters in your stories, within your book Rage and other writing? Yes and no. Yes in that I have based characters on past jobs for some of my writing. For example, two...
How important are the arts and your creativity to you? Life is nothing without the arts. Think of what we do to relax: listen to music, watch movies, read books, go dancing. And yet, when it comes down to a budget crisis, these seem to be the things that are cut...
1. How old were you when you wrote your first writing project? What genre was it? That’s hard to say. I was writing short stories and designing cover art when I was in second grade. I was writing screenplays and making movies in middle school. I published poetry in...
Today I am highlighting some of the incredible authors published by Dream Write Publishing of Sherwood Park, who are launching new books at this event. It will be the 12th annual Words in the Park and with over 100 titles, this publishing company has continued to...
Today's question: How big of a part does music play in creating your “zone”? Do you prefer a certain genre of music or silence? Please join the conversation...and leave your reply in the comments below. Last week's question: How did publishing your first book...
Musical fiction is a genre of fiction in which music is the main subject matter of the narrative. It can also be through the rhythm and flow of the prose itself. As a literary sub-genre it engages musical pretexts, as well a relationship to a musical model. June...
Does writing energize or exhaust you? Writing usually energizes me. There’s nothing better than getting some ideas that have been running around in my head down on paper. What is your writing Kryptonite? My kryptonite would have to be grammar and sometimes,...