Ask the Author: Lisa A. Sturm
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Lisa A. Sturm
Setting my words and feelings free is the best part. Writing something that you find beautiful is tremendously satisfying!!
Lisa A. Sturm
Join writers' groups, get beta readers and read, read, read! Also, develop thick skin, because for most of us, the road to publication is paved with rejection letters.
Lisa A. Sturm
I'm working on a novel about a therapist whose gang-banger patient is killed on the eve of his departure from crime life. To ease her guilt, she enlists the help of another patient; a police officer from the same neighborhood. Together, they try to solve the murder.
Lisa A. Sturm
I usually have something percolating in my head and I'm happy to sit in front of the keyboard. The difficulty for me is carving out the time.
Lisa A. Sturm
I was thinking of writing a novel that was loosely based on my experience as a therapist treating inner-city women. A newspaper came with a picture of bi-racial twin sisters; one of them looked black and the other looked white. That's when the idea came to me: What if they twins like these were given up for adoption and raised in neighboring towns, but worlds apart?
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