I have been writing since I was about nine years old. Later, after receiving positive feedback from my high school Creative Writing teacher, I began to take it seriously.
Literary Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Contemporary Romance, and the occasional Ghost Story.
I have been around a long time and have seen a lot of things. I get inspiration both from current events and from memories of past experiences, then sprinkle in a LOT of pure imagination. I currently have several stories in various stages of development, and more ideas than I will ever live long enough to finish.
I would say that my writing style is concise and, hopefully, engaging. My books are character driven, dialogue-heavy, and only descriptive where they absolutely need to be. Some might say I'm a minimalist. No world building or purple prose here.
At my desk at home. I have tried to write in a cafe or other places, but I have found that I need to be in near total silence to work.
Up around 7am, followed by a few hours of checking my email, reading the news, puttering about, and drinking too much caffeine. I begin writing at 11am and continue until 5pm. I do this 5 days a week. I treat it like my job because it is.
Absolutely. I wouldn't want to do anything else (except maybe play guitar for the Rolling Stones).
Ernest Hemingway, Sarah Waters, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Andrew Vacchs, Virginia Woolf, George Saunders, Truman Capote, James Baldwin, and Tana French, just to name a few.
Rarely. If I do, they will be listed on my Events page.
Unfortunately, no.
With the ever-encroaching presence of AI intruding into publishing, I (with the understanding and support of my publisher) have made the decision to forgo the digital formats of my books and make them available in print form only.
In addition to the frustrating issue of piracy, I refuse to let the words I carefully choose and painstakingly mold into my stories become fodder for the insatiable appetite of AI, or be used by 'writers' who can't be bothered to do the work themselves in order to become published authors.
Obviously, I understand that this will reduce the exposure and profitability of my work, but the eBook versions of my books will never be priced less than a paperback version would anyway. I strongly believe that it's the content—the story—that a reader is paying for regardless of which format they prefer to purchase it in, and I don't agree with the premise that because eBooks cost less to distribute their value should be discounted to nearly nothing.
What started as a user-friendly and convenient format for readers has been increasingly unfriendly towards authors. Amazon is continually reducing eBook royalty rates, while at the same time, readers now regularly expect eBooks to be priced at $.99 or even free, and balk at those priced above five dollars. I have even seen many instances of readers calling these authors 'greedy.' Well, I don't think it's 'greedy' for an author to want to make a small profit on work that may have taken them years to create.
Many authors find the eBook format of their work very profitable, and they are willing to tolerate the problems that can arise with the digital format of their work. But I am not.
That is why, for the foreseeable future, my books are only available in print form.