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1. Did you choose the writing profession or did it choose you?

It chose me

 

2. What is your background? (education, work, etc.)

Doctorate in physics, professor (emeritus) of computer science with The University of Western Ontario

 

3. When did you ‘know’ you were a writer?

In high school

 

4. How would you describe your style of writing?

Concise, accurate

 

5. What is your writing process?

The plot comes to me, then I structure it in a logical manner

 

6. What was your path to publication?

E-book first, 2 self-published, then 2 published

 

7. What is your favorite self-marketing idea?

Talking to people, offering some of my short stories for free

 

8. What are the biggest surprises you’ve encountered as a writer?

People seem to enjoy my novels!

 

9. How do you inspire yourself? What are your sources of creativity?

What happened around the world, my life experience

 

10. What is your proudest writer moment?

When I finish a novel

 

11. What’s the best advice you were given about writing?

Keep doing it!

 

12. What is your most embarrassing writer moment?

When I find an error in a novel already published

 

13. What business challenges have you faced as a writer?

Realizing it does not produce much income

 

14. What is your writer life philosophy?

Write if you enjoy doing it

 

15. When you’re not writing what do you do for fun?

Playing tennis, golfing, gardening

 

16. Who do you like to read? 

Michael Connelly, Mary Higging Clark, Ken Follett, Peter Robinson

 

17. What’s your advice for new writers?

Try to find a friend writer who can offer objective criticism

 

18. What are you currently working on?

A young woman prevents biological warfare

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