AUTHOR INTERVIEW
What is your favourite book that you have written and why?
I’d have to say, ATHENA’S SECRETS, the first book in my new Delphi Bloodline series. My cousin, a practicing psychic/clairvoyant, gave me the idea and I spent a couple of years researching parapsychology, as psychic phenomena is often called. I took a workshop given by a Czech physicist who used to work for the Moscow Institute for Psychic Research. I began the workshop as a skeptic, but emerged a believer, convinced that highly intuitive people can develop the ability to “see” what others cannot. It’s a human ability, I believe, not unlike music, artistic or mathematical abilities. Some are born to play piano like a Mozart or Chopin; others can barely plunk out Heart and Soul. So ATHENA’S SECRETS became a storyline that I could use to explore this controversial topic.
For aspiring writers what is your advice?
Writing fiction can be a tedious, time-consuming process unless you are highly motivated to tell a certain story peopled with characters that inspire you. Make sure you really want to tell that story.
Going back in time which famous author would you have been and why?
Edna Ferber was an early 20th Century female author I admired greatly. She told stories about rich and poor Americans in varied settings and told them as honestly as she could, considering the time period in which she wrote.
Silence or noise of some sort while you write?
I usually write with music playing softly in the background.
Do you read your reviews?
I always read my reviews because I feel there might be something I could learn from their comments that I might be able to use to improve my own storytelling abilities.
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