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FAQsWhere do you get your ideas from? I would have to say that a lot of my ideas come from dreams. But even more ideas come from sitting down and asking myself a whole series of questions: "What if I put that another way?"; "What if that wasn't the ending at all?"; "What if I added two novel ideas together?"; "What if . . .?" The rest comes from life experience. Even the most ordinary experiences of each day can be used in a book somewhere. I tend to think it's the smaller details that give a book life. And as for the underlying themes - the messages - of my novels, well, I only have to watch the world around me to find those. I might be watching the news and getting angry about poverty, and it inspires themes such as those in SACRIFICE. A conversation I had with a very racist man frustrated me so much that I sat down and pounded out BLOODLINE: ALLIANCE. We all have something we care about, or something that we wish we had a voice for. Often my novels are ways to sort out the issues for myself, to help me deal with the difficult matters of life, and to have a voice about things that matter to me at some point in my life. |