There are several memes that state an author’s browsing history should be ignored and/or immediately deleted. We can find ourselves researching the strangest subjects, all of which are perfectly innocence. (One would hope anyway!) I think the most alarming subject for...
The Delphic Murders Update I spent Family Day, which was a holiday Monday here in Alberta, reading and revising book two of my detective trilogy, The Tainted Search. This is a process all writer's go through when creating any story. We become immersed in our...
What spurred you into writing stories in the first place? I was always a big reader, which was red flag number one. Aside from reading though, I had always been writerly, I just didn’t know it would eventually manifest into fiction novels. I am one of those people...
Were your core beliefs the reason you began writing historical fiction? In a way, yes. I was an English and History major in college and had a hard time finding information about influential women. I was appalled that even noble and royal women were rarely named while...
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...
When did you first start writing? Not until I was a teenager when I wrote my first complete novel (“Caged-In World”—which later served as a very rough draft for my first published novel, “Darwin’s Paradox”). My first published work was my non-fiction article...
Whether you spend time intricately plotting and creating your story line or let the story flow unbidden, one facet of all stories that must be created and created well are its characters. Your protagonist, antagonist and all the supporting characters have a ‘job’ to...
We all want the time and space to write more. Life gets in the way a lot of the time, but if you make some 'writing' time within our normal life, it can be done. Firstly, it seems obvious but set a goal for your writing session. Do you know what your objective is? Are...
Being aware of your genre can help you contextualize your story but remember—just because you may have been writing towards a certain kind of genre, it may not mean that’s what your story actually is. Common Genres include: Thriller –built around the fast-paced...