![]() You learn incredibly fast by doing complete projects one after another.įor those who are unfamiliar with your series Kiss Trilogy, how would you introduce it? The key is to keep writing (not revising). Keep writing! Finish your first book, short story, poem, etc. What advice would you give to writers just starting out? I have certainly used historical events in my stories, but I tend not to use too many contemporary events because you run the risk of dating the book too much. ![]() Have you ever used contemporary events or stories in your work? It’s okay to fail, but if you want to succeed you have to pick yourself up and try again. What was the greatest thing you learned at school? They all taught me something wonderful about point-of-view and helped inspire me to become a writer. The Lone Star Ranger is about an outlaw who goes undercover inside a crime gang as a Texas Ranger in the old west, and Dracula is about a group of people struggling to save a young woman from the vampire who has marked her as his own. Snow Dog is about a dog learning to live in the wild who later finds friendship with a man. Three more different books couldn’t exist. The three books that impacted me the most were: Snow Dog by Jim Kjelgaard, The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey, and Dracula by Bram Stoker. What fiction most influenced your childhood, and what effect did those stories have on your writing? ![]() I wanted to be a veterinarian and a writer. As a child, what did you want to do when you grew up? ![]()
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