1.) What is your martial status?
Married
2.) Tell us about where and how, you grew up:
Born in Boston, raised mostly in Florida.
3.) Are you currently working on something now?
Always! Usually it's two or three projects at a time.
4.) What do you like to read?
I honestly don't like to read, but I do it anyway. Mostly as a service to other authors, and to edit my own stuff.
5.) What is your favorite sound?
The mantra of the ocean, the swishing of pine trees with the breeze, and on occasion, the sound of the falling rain.
6.) Who is your favorite person?
Tough one. It all depends on who's on my good side on that particular day.
7.) Where is your favorite place?
The mountains- Disney World, and sometimes a comfortable bed.
8.) What is your favorite memory?
Age 8, jumping into a pile of 7 foot snow.
9.) What is your favorite writers' quote and why?
I like my own. "Welcome to my world of insanity, where there is always room at the inn."
10.) What is your most favorite quality about yourself?
I always try and find the good in any situation.
11.) What is the least favorite quality about yourself?
I'm not rich.
12.) If you could go anywhere in the world right now, where would it be and why?
Ireland- to find my lost roots.
13.) What inspires you to write?
Those little voices inside my head.
15.) What is your favorite genre?
Horror, but not the blood and guts kind. I like the supernatural stuff.
16.) What do you think makes a writer successful?
Determination, a willingness to accept failure, and the soul to keep trying.
17.) What is it that makes 'you' successful as a writer?
It's what I am and what I shall always be.
18.) What are your goals as a writer?
To become rich and famous... what else? Okay, so maybe not, but I would like positive recognition, and to think that someone out there is waiting for my next release.
19.) What is the best tip you can give to fellow writers?
If your destiny is to write, then do it, and if your work is criticized, make it better. Read what you write and edit, edit, edit. Write what you feel, but if you're writing for others, write what they'll want to read.
20.) What do you hope to provide your readers with through your writing?
Entertainment, and to take them to a place outside of the worries of the world.
21.) How long did it take you to write your book(s)?
Well the first book I started was back in 1991- it still isn't done, but since then I've completed 15 titles. How quickly I get them done depends on which way my mind is turning and how much time I have to work on them.
22.) What would you do differently if you could repeat the same publishing experience?
Not go with my original publisher. Enough said.
23.) What have you learned about the publishing world?
Oh it's tough out there. If you write to get rich then chances are you won't be happy, but if you write because it's inside of you, then it won't matter. (Much)
24.) This is your chance to 'Talk Back' to your readers. What would you like to say to them?
Be gentle. Those who write are expressing something inside of them, and it's far easier to say nothing than to say something bad. It's not easy to write someting worth reading.
25.) What's the one thing that you want people to know about your writing?
Insanity is all in the mind.
