EMERALD( Cont.) INTERVIEW
EMERALD( Cont.) INTERVIEW
MFRW:
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Tell us about yourself, your family, where you live. I was born and raised in Iowa, where the rest of my immediate family still lives. I’ ve lived in the Washington, DC, area for more than a decade, and about a year ago I bought a house in northern Virginia just west of the metro area where I live with my canine and feline family members. anything creative, is to inspire a process of selfawareness or awakening of some sort. As I perceive it, this aspiration is served in direct proportion to how aware, grounded, and open I am when I write( and in general), so that what wants to be offered may come“ through” me, if you will, with my own habits and tendencies interfering as little as possible.
MFRW: Why did you decide to write?
E: I don’ t know that I“ decided” to as much as I simply did. I started writing when I was seven and have simply felt oriented to it for almost as long as I can remember.
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How many books have you written, how many have been published? Historically, I’ ve worked in short fiction, and I have yet to write a full-length novel. I’ ve had around thirty-five short stories published in anthologies and online, and I have two singleauthor short story collections— one erotic romance and one erotica— out as well. What do you hope readers take with them after reading your work? One of my greatest aims in writing erotica, or
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What about your family? Do they know not to bother you when you are writing, or are there constant interruptions? Given that my family consists of two cats and two dogs who charmingly couldn’ t seem to care less what I’ m doing or if I don’ t want to be interrupted, generally the latter.
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