Whether or Not Weather by Stephen Mack Jones

 

Do you use weather in your books to create atmosphere or mood?

        Living, as I do, in the “Mitten” state, the physical, mental and spiritual impact of Michigan’s often schizophrenic weather often makes its way into my writing, e.g., Dead of Winter. The seasons here (of which there are truly only three—Fall, Winter and 93-Degrees-with Humidity) have been known to have a profoundly distinctive and predictive effect on a single personality.

        For example, during Michigan’s insufferably l...