What brings your writing into focus-- the characters, the stories, the love of words? For me, every story has a different motivator. When I first started View From the Sixth Floor: An Oswald Tale, the story was my focus. I had an idea and I wanted to get the story told. It seemed to move forward on its own. But in the end it was a combination of the story and the characters. In my current work in progress, the story is definitely what brings my writing into focus.
What inspired your latest book? View From the Sixth Floor: An Oswald Tale was
inspired by my fascination with the assassination of President John Kennedy. I
was ten when the assassination occurred and vividly remember everything about
it, including seeing accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald being killed on
television. As I got older I came to believe he was innocent and it was a
conspiracy. After that, I wondered what might have happened if he had lived to tell
his story. When the 50th anniversary came along, something clicked and the story
was born.
What makes your book/characters unique? The main characters in View From the Sixth Floor: An
Oswald Tale are senior citizens. Olivia Roberts is a widowed and retired
school teacher. She is an ordinary woman caught up in extraordinary
circumstances. Bill Horton is a mysterious man in his early seventies. Is he
hiding something or is he crazy? They undertake an adventure as friends and
learn more about themselves and one another. I think they show people can have
lives even when they are older.
Would you share a bit about your next project? My current project is called Riddle. It’s a
romantic thriller about a young Native man who was falsely convicted of killing
his high school girlfriend. He’d been adopted by a white family as a baby and
never really fit in with the other kids in the town, Riddle. When he returns
from prison after seven years, some townspeople feel he got off easy and others
believe he was railroaded. To add to the mix, we have a young girl who has run
away from her fiancé after catching him in bed with her best friend. Her car
broke down in Riddle, and she is working at a local diner until she has enough
money to have it repaired. They become friends and begin to work together to
clear his name and find the real killer. Meanwhile, more deaths begin to happen
in the town. It has some tense moments and some very sexy moments but it isn’t
erotic fiction. It’s definitely an exciting edge-of-your-seat mystery.
How much fact is in your fiction? In View From the Sixth Floor, Lee Harvey Oswald was a real person. I read a lot about him when I was researching the assassination. He was a fascinating person, and I used a lot of his reported characteristics in developing his character. The assassination obviously really occurred. With my current project, my male protagonist Kort is a Native who was adopted as a baby in an illegal adoption and was mistreated by his adoptive parents. Unfortunately that is a more common practice that people realize. I cover that underlying story throughout the book. I like to inject a little fact into my books.
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“View from the Sixth Floor: An Oswald Tale” is a story of “what-ifs”? What if the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963 was a conspiracy? What if accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was innocent? What if someone knew the truth and could prove it? What if someone you trusted turned out to be hiding a secret so big it could change history?
This is a tale of friendship, love, political intrigue, and murder.
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Thank you for giving me the opportunity to share "View From the Sixth Floor" and my upcoming romantic thriller "Riddle". I enjoyed the interview.
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