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1. Did you choose the writing profession or did it choose you? Both, if that is possible. I have always enjoyed writing and did it mostly for fun and my own entertainment. The discovery of MySpace two years ago made me realize that other people liked to read my stuff. In late summer of 2007 I quit my job. I decided not long after that it was time to take my writing seriously.
2. What is your background? (education, work, etc.) My background? It's rather varied. I originally went to school for veterinary technology and worked for a vet. I then got married and had kids and decided to become a stay at home mom. In that time I took on a lot of odd jobs that I could do at home from working for a psychic line to answering tech support phone calls. I even wrote home school curriculum for a while, my first paid writing job.
3. When did you 'know' you were a writer? I knew I was a writer long after I was told I was. All through school my teachers expected me to grow up to be a writer. They will be happy to know that I finally did that. Become a writer. Not sure I have grown up yet. I think I realized that I was a writer of some sort when I was accepted as a freelance writer to write home school curriculum.
4. How would you describe your style of writing? Random. I don't think I have a style.
5. What is your writing process? People have a process? I write about whatever pops into my mind.
6. What was your path to publication? I joined NaNo in 2007, the goal was to write a 50,000 novel in 30 days. When it was done I didn't know what to do with it so I looked into self-publishing. My first book has sold 2 copies and is listed on Amazon.com. We all have to start somewhere.
7. What is your favorite self-marketing idea? A webpage, not that people visit my webpage. At least I don't think they do. Doesn't matter, it's something I have control over and don't need anyone to help me with.
8. What are the biggest surprises you've encountered as a writer? I am hard to surprise. I think the biggest surprise for me is that people actually consider me good and want to read my stuff.
9. How do you inspire yourself? What are your sources of creativity? Inspiration is a strange thing. I don't think I really have any. I was inspired once to write a poem based on a picture I saw. I just have some really weird ideas running around in my head and I write about them. I have had people all my life ask me "What are you on and where can I score some?" They are always surprised to find out I don't do drugs or drink that I am just normally wired, weird and off the wall. Most of the time it translates into my writing.
10. What is your proudest writer moment? Seeing the proof of my first book. It's amazing to see your name on a book cover for the first time.
11. What's the best advice you were given about writing? The best advice that I was ever given was "You should write satire." It just comes naturally to me. Everything else is hard for me to write because I have to strangle the crap out of my normal personality where it doesn't come out in my writing.
12. What is your most embarrassing writer moment? That my first book is erotic fiction. There are people that I know that I want to say to "Hey, I wrote this book but I don't want you to read it." It's because of the content. I have never been known for writing smut/romance/erotic type stuff but this idea just jumped into my head while reading The Story of O and it demanded to be written.
13. What business challenges have you faced as a writer? Learning how to market myself. I am bad at promoting myself. Somewhere in my mind promoting oneself equals arrogance. Maybe I should quit watching pro-wrestling. Especially where they cut their promos bragging themselves up.
14. What is your writer life philosophy? I don't have one. As soon as I do I will let everyone know.
15. When you're not writing what do you do for fun? I either read or blog. Sometimes I even play video games, especially the Sims. Then I write satirical stories for my Sims website (www.simsweeklyworldnews.com) about what happened in the game.
16. Who do you like to read? I like to read Anne Rice (she serves as a grand example of how to use a run on sentence properly and effectively), Chuck Palahnuik (his characters are so off the wall, it's great) Ray Bradbury, Margaret Weis and Tracey Hickman. The truth is I will read anything as long as it looks interesting. I will often times mention an author to my husband, like Kevin J. Anderson, and he will have no idea who I am talking about. Then I look at him in total disbelief and tell say "I can't believe you don't know who that is."
17. What's your advice for new writers? Read. You can learn the most about writing from reading other peoples works. Every now and then you will pick up something that is so horrible you can't believe it's in print and say "Now I know what I don't want to do."
18. What are you currently working on? I am currently working on lots of stuff. I just finished a short story (first time I have ever written horror) that I am hoping to get published. I am also working on a novel based on random ideas to wedge into a story that came off the NaNo dare thread. It will come as a shock to some people to know that there will be a novel on the market sometime this year (even if I have to self publish it) that starts with the line "Some people have normal fears. I am afraid of walk in freezers." Now that it's 2008 I am going to start working on something taking a day by day satirical look at the year. Of course that is going to take me a year to write. I am also working on revising a sci-fi short story for a contest. I have another idea for more erotic fiction but I am not sure I will write it. |
