1. What or who inspired you to start writing?
I’ve always loved to read, ever since I first learned how to. My mom used to sit my sister and me down and give us a pencil and paper and told us to write. So we did. It’s no surprise that we both grew up wanting to be authors!
I’ve always loved to read, ever since I first learned how to. My mom used to sit my sister and me down and give us a pencil and paper and told us to write. So we did. It’s no surprise that we both grew up wanting to be authors!
2. How did you come up with your idea for Time Changes?
I’ve always been in love with the idea of finding that special someone and that loves transcends time. If you truly love someone, you will find a way to be together. It doesn’t matter the circumstances, distance, all that matters is love. I’m a hopeless romantic who married her first love so first loves mean a great deal to me.
3. As far as your writing goes, what are your future plans?
Simple: to keep writing. Lately, I’ve been focused on short stories but I think I might tackle a novella next.
Simple: to keep writing. Lately, I’ve been focused on short stories but I think I might tackle a novella next.
4. When did you first decide to submit your work? Please tell us what or who encouraged you to take this big step?
I found a call for submissions for short sweet romances from Freya’s Bower for an anthology called One Touch, One Glance. Immediately inspired, I wrote Time Changes. Faith, the editor, rejected the story but told me to submit another. So I did. Little Cowgirl was accepted and is my first published piece. I am so thrilled that Time Changes found a home in this wonderful anthology!
5. What is the best and worst advice you ever received? (regarding writing or publishing)
The best advice: to keep writing. To not let a rejection get you down for more than a day. To ask authors at a publishing house before submitting to protect yourself.
The worst: Someone told me once that you have to write every day in order to be successful. Well, RL won’t let me and I’ll be damned if I’ll let that stop me from doing what I love or trying to be successful.
The best advice: to keep writing. To not let a rejection get you down for more than a day. To ask authors at a publishing house before submitting to protect yourself.
The worst: Someone told me once that you have to write every day in order to be successful. Well, RL won’t let me and I’ll be damned if I’ll let that stop me from doing what I love or trying to be successful.
6. Do you outline your books or just start writing?
I just start writing. It usually means that I have to edit more extensively than if I had an outline to draw from, but I have a tendency to not finish stories if I know how they are going to end. I like to be surprised and let the story tell itself. And, yes, my characters do talk to me.
I just start writing. It usually means that I have to edit more extensively than if I had an outline to draw from, but I have a tendency to not finish stories if I know how they are going to end. I like to be surprised and let the story tell itself. And, yes, my characters do talk to me.
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