What do you find the most challenging part of writing? And the most
rewarding?
The most challenging part is – just sitting down every single day and writing.
There are so many distractions! As a genre author, you can’t wait for
inspiration, you have to make the words come every day…and that’s not easy.
Some days you feel like you’re pulling them out of a vat of sticky taffy and
other days the words come tumbling out so fast you can barely keep up. The
strangest part is that when I do my rewrites (and I rewrite several times for
each draft), it’s impossible for me to tell which bits were yanked from the taffy
vat and which bits flowed.
The most rewarding part of writing is easy; the satisfaction that comes from
knowing that you created something that others can enjoy. I love hearing from
my readers and with the social media technology available these days, I get a
real sense that books are doing exactly what I hope they’d do; entertain people.
What book is on your nightstand?
There are eight of them stacked next to my bed but currently I’m reading “The
Wrong Side of Goodbye” by Michael Connelly and “The Brutal Telling” by
Louise Penny. I also read a lot of non-fiction, biographies, history and of
course, research for my “Mrs. Jeffries” books.
What can we look forward to seeing from you in the future?
More Mrs. Jeffries, of course and I’ve got another mystery series in mind – it’s
not really a series, more like a three book mini-series set in World War I with a
villainess who wants to take over the world.
Is there anything you’d like to share with your readers?
Mainly, I’d just like to thank all of them for reading my books. A writer is
nothing unless someone wants to read what they’ve created…so to all my
readers, a huge, heartfelt…
“THANK YOU.”