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Tell us some more about your book/s.
Alison Hayes is a fictional character who has walked with me since a creative writing class in college. I was invited back to the university the following year to complete a master’s program in Creative Writing and Literature, with Intoxic being the creative portion of my masters thesis. I worked really hard that next year and completed my coursework with no problem. I worked really hard on my novel that year, too, but when it came time to hand it over to a panel of professors for judgement I wasn’t ready to share. I wasn’t ready to set Alison free into the world, I wasn’t ready for her to be judged. I walked away from my masters program with my coursework complete.
I put Alison’s book in a drawer and once or twice a year I would bring it out and make changes and over the years it transformed. There is very little resemblance now to the book it started out to be. It is a much more mature book, because I have enough experience now in living to see life without being sentimental. A couple of years ago, I reread the book, and realized that I was finally ready to share it. Through sharing it with the right people and connecting with my editor, Janet Fix at thewordverve.com, we brought Intoxic to press in August of 2016. At that time I thought I was done. I had finally completed something, and for the rest of my life I could say that “I wrote a book” and be satisfied. What I wasn’t expecting were the reviews. I wasn’t expecting for people to feel about Alison the way I do, after all, she had been a part of my life for years. The most frequently asked question about Intoxic was “What happens next?” I began to realize that I needed to know too. I started listening again, to Alison in my head, and thinking about the people who could help her find a path. Once I started listening, I started writing and the second book was completed in 30 days. It was an incredible, cathartic experience, writing that book. I sent it to my editor, and, she like me, felt there was something special in Purgus, something powerful. We released it in December of 2016.
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Intoxic
When Alison Hayes walked into her storm darkened trailer the evening of her fifteenth birthday she had no idea that it will the be the beginning of a year like no other. Her alcoholic mother is passed out at one end of the trailer, having been fired from yet another job. The best of the revolving door men that they’ve ever had is on his way out, and Alison just wants to be clean.
How can she ever know how to do anything right, when everyone around her has made nothing but bad decisions?
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Purgus
When Alison finds herself suddenly set free to build her life out of the crumbled ruins of her childhood, she must come to terms with her own demons before she can make her way out of the charos left by her mother’s life.
Were people right to think she would follow the same road her mother traveled, or would Alison be able to forge a new path? Alison will face some of the hardest decisions of her life as she reaches out into the wide unknown world.
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Icara
Alison is set to fly or flee. When she follows her friend, Cici, to Californis she hopes it will be the beginning of a new, perfect life. She has spent her days trying to do something better, trying not to repeat the mistakes made by her alcoholic and broken mother. Yet, she is haunted by the only “right thing” she has ever done being the one thing she couldn’t keep.
Can Alison create a new, charmed life in a land where nobody knows her history? Can she soar to the elusive “something better?” Or, as she fears, will the cracks in her foundation break through and send her careeening to the ground?
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Are you planning to adapt any of your stories to the screen?
I have been approached by a screenwriter out of California who thought Intoxic has potential. Perhaps that is something for down the road, but right now I want to focus on having them appreciated in their first, primary form.
How hard is it to establish and maintain a career in writing?
I am fortunate that I am not trying to support my family with my writing. I am only supporting my writing with my writing. My husband works very hard and provides us with everything we need, and gives me the ability to focus on the girls and my writing. I am beyond appreciative of his hard work and dedication to our family. Making writing a lucrative career is on par, in my mind, of breaking into Hollywood or winning the lottery. Can it happen? Sure, there are always success stories, and of course, I’d love to be one of them, but I’m not counting on it, I’m a realist. I’m going to keep writing as long as people what to read what I am writing, or until I have nothing left to say.
Any last thoughts for our readers?
Thank you for taking your time with me today. I hope you will read my books, and if you do, I’d love to hear what you think. Feel free to contact me.
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