1. Tell us about your book/books? My debut novel is a dark fairytale that looks
at the struggle between what the heart wants and what the soul needs.Aggrafina
is a mermaid cast out of the sea and the life she knows. She is found by Adrik,
a man who is bitter and lost amongst his own kind. The show is where Adrik
allows the world a small glimpse into the anomalies that hide in its forests
and wash up from its seas. Aggrafina becomes an unwilling participant in the
show just as her presence causes Adrik to become an unwilling participant in reliving
parts of his past. Despite the new relationships found within the stone
buildings on an isolated island Aggrafina'srestless heart wants only one thing...to
go home, but will she? I am also editing my first Contemporary Romance and plan
to release more deconstructed versions of fairytales.
2. How did you get started as a writer? I don’t really remember how
I got started as a writer because I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t
writing. I did have a defining moment a little over a year ago that pushed me
to finally write and finish a book. I was in a weird place, feeling restless
and I heard a song by Green Day that fit the emotional state I was in. I went
home and found the initial eight pages of The Mermaid’s Lament that I had
written a year before and wrote an additional 22,000 words in the next month.
That was the beginning.
3. What’s a typical day like for you? A typical day is getting the
kiddos off to school and gettinga green tea, it’s a must. Depending on the day
I fit in some writing while the kids are gone and during their multiple after
school activities, i.e. Ballet, Swim, and gymnastics. I do the typical mom
stuff but I am both lucky and cursed with insomnia so that’s when I fit in more
writing, reading, music, and movies. The insomnia oddly is what probably helps
me stay sane.
4. Describe your workspace. My workspace is an old wood desk that I
have covered in stickers, song lyrics, and quotes. I have the walls covered in
postcards I have picked up in museums, an 8x10 black and white of Ernest
Hemingway. The postcards are of other people who I have loved and been inspired
by such as Jack Kerouac, Anne Sexton, and pieces of art. I have an odd antique
nun and a Dexter bobble head amongst other weird gifts I have been given over the
years or picked up at Comic conventions. The centerpieces of my workspace are a
large black and white Bob Dylan poster and my laptop.
5. Favorite books? Wow. Favorite books? I would say my top five
books are as follows: Little Women – Louisa May Alcott, Garden Of Eden – Ernest Hemingway, The
Outsiders – S.E Hinton (Dallas Winston was my first book boyfriend), The
Opportunist – Tarryn Fisher, and The Ocean at the End of the Lane – Neil Gaiman.
6. Tell us 3 interesting things about you. My most prized
possession is a copy of The October Country by Ray Bradbury that I had him sign
after a lecture he gave. He signed it on my favorite story, The Small Assassin.
I listen to Bob Dylan and Green Day at least once every day. I won honorable
mention once for a newspaper that sponsored a “Write Like Hemingway” contest
when I was thirteen. Until the week before the contest I had never read Ernest
Hemingway and thus began a lifetime love affair with his writing.
7. Favorite quote: “Put your ear down close to your soul and listen
hard” – Anne Sexton
8. Best and worst part of being a writer? The best part of being a
writer is being able to show people what my dreams and musings sound and look
like. The worst part is explaining that sometimes the characters write
themselves and getting a lot of odd looks. My brain is like a waiting room and
I’m just there to write down the case study for each patient.
9. Advice to writers? Write what you know, what you feel, and what
you love so others can understand and see the world as you do. Just don’t think
it will be easy and that you won’t give away parts of yourself in the process.
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