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1. Did you choose the writing profession or did it choose you? I have always wanted to write but it took getting divorced for the third time and then having “all” that time to myself.
2. What is your background? (education, work, etc.) I am retired from the California Department of Corrections and a juvenile hall in Northern California, I’ve got a BA in Social Work/Corrections, all of which has been the sources for my two published books.
3. When did you ‘know’ you were a writer? I knew I was a writer when I sat down and wrote and liked what came out.
4. How would you describe your style of writing? Style??? Primarily first person and third person with a lot of factual stuff in there also.
5. What is your writing process? A cup of warm tea and a little smooth jazz to get me primed.
6. What was your path to publication? My path to publication was littered with greed. I wanted all the money without realizing that I got all the work too. Then common sense took hold.
7. What is your favorite self-marketing idea? My favorite self-marketing ploy is the book signing. I look forward to them.
8. What are the biggest surprises you’ve encountered as a writer? Being self-published and finding out that the larger institutions, libraries, book stores, etc. do not want to deal with me because I am self-published.
9. How do you inspire yourself? What are your sources of creativity? Most of the time I just get the urge and sit down and write, sometimes it is a thousand words and sometimes its one hundred but I write.
10. What is your proudest writer moment? My proudest moment as a writer is being asked about my next book and then answering questions at a book signing.
11. What’s the best advice you were given about writing? The best advice was from a Pete Dexter statement, “write at least one hour per day”
12. What is your most embarrassing writer moment? The most embarrassing moment was reading my first book and finding all the grammatical errors.
13. What business challenges have you faced as a writer? The challenges I have seen and which really piss me off is hearing the price that newspapers want for an ad and then having no turn out at all from the ad.
14. What is your writer life philosophy? My writing philosophy is basically wanting to produce something that will catch the eye of students that are majoring in Criminal Justice, etc. as when I was going through school, there was nothing of this nature that I could fall back on or glean any information from.
15. When you’re not writing what do you do for fun? When not writing, I read and garden. I recently moved to southern Oregon with a friend of mine and we are busy putting this house together and deciding what we would like to do to it on down the road.
16. Who do you like to read? I read James Lee Burke, probably have all of his; James Patterson, some Joe Wambaugh and recently picked up a Mary HIggins Clark.
17. What’s your advice for new writers? My advice is just keep writing, you’ll not suffer writers block as long as you put something on paper. You can always come back and change it.
18. What are you currently working on? Thanks to Jump Drives, I have a third book in the works and have compiled a fair amount of short stories. Am trying my hand at writing some erotica and plan to enter some writing contests and apply for one or two residency’s as well as a work shop or two. |
