Q) Is your book part of a series? Thank you for having me Beth. No, The
Promise of Annie is a stand-alone story.
Q) What made this story special to you? The
fact that Annie is a nurse makes this story special to me. I work in a
hospital, and I personally see how dedicated and hardworking nurses are toward
their patients. The past two years have been especially difficult and this is
just my way of honoring them and acknowledging how devoted they truly are. Annie
takes that commitment a step further, when she is determined, against all odds,
to keep a promise she makes to a dying patient. Van doesn’t make things easy on
her though! I also live in a military town and love to write my hero’s as
veterans.
Q) Do you have a writing quirk, or habit when you
write? I almost hate to mention this, but I watch TV when I write.
Specifically I watch The Food Network channel. I’m a huge foodie and love to
learn and try new foods and recipes.
Q) What do you think is your strongest asset as a
writer? …what is your weakest factor as a writer? My strongest asset is
my settings. I live in the south and love placing my characters in the south, a
place I know and love. I make them as “real” as possible. They are everyday
people that we all know and have met. Annie and Van could totally be your next
door neighbors! My weakness as a writer is easy. Ugh, punctuation, specifically
commas. I get that they are necessary, but I never seem to be able to put them
in the right places, and having to stop my flow of writing to figure out where
I need to place one is frustrating to me. Thank goodness for the awesome
editors at Evernight!
Q) Do you write
in a linear fashion or do you jump from scene to scene and then go back and
“fill in the blanks”? I write in a linear fashion. However, I do tend
to write a chapter and later go back and add to it, or change things about it,
if the story evolves to support that change. I once wrote an entire book on one
sentence that popped in my head.
Q) Do you want each book to stand on its own, or are
you trying to build a body of work with connections between each book? I like my books to stand on their own. Writing a series is popular, but I get bored
easily and writing or reading a series tends to make my mind wander.
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