Q. Do you ‘get lost’ in your writing?
SO. Often. I can sit at an airport with my laptop and write, lost in the story—aka ‘the zone.’ Very irritating for anyone who tries to talk to me.
Q. Are you working on something now or have a new release coming up? If so tell us about it.
SO. I am currently working on part 10 in the Sandy Cove series, or maybe I should call it part 4 in the Starlight Cottages series, which is a series within a series,
set in a coastguard station just outside the fictional village of Sandy Cove. The Lost Promise of Ireland, book 9 (Starlight Cottage #3) will be published in mid-December this year.
Q. When did you begin to write seriously?
SO. When I started writing fiction.
Q. Do you think we will see, in our lifetime, the total demise of paper books?
SO. No. I think we’ll always have both. A lot of readers love to hold a ‘real’ book in their hand.
Q. What makes a writer great?
SO. A great writer is someone who can pull the reader into the story from the very first page and hold his/her attention right through to the end.
Q. and the all-important: What does the process of going from “no book” to “finished book” look like for you?
SO. It’s quite a long, complicated process. First, I write the first draft from start to finish, then I go over it and chop and change quite a bit before I send it to my editor. After that there are four different rounds of edits: structural, line edit, copy edit and proofreading. The final stage is checking through the different formats, Kindle, e-book and PDF (for paperback). In all, three different editors work on the book. All this can take up to two months before publication.
Q. How has your life experiences influenced your writing?
SO. Mostly in the settings (I have lived in quite a few different countries and travelled a lot) and things that have happened to me through my life that have touched my heart and my emotions. Love, tragedies, illness and so on.
Q. What’s your down time look like?
SO. If you mean what I do to relax, it’s mostly about the outdoors. I love hiking in the beautiful mountains of Ireland, or walking on the beaches. I also like yoga or any other kind of workout.
Q. Have you or do you want to write in another genre`?
SO. I have co-written four detective stories and also written two historical novels based on the lives of my great-aunt and her daughter who had fascinating lives.
Q. Note to Self: (a life lesson you’ve learned.)
SO. Count your blessings. And carpe diem.
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