Interview at Swedish Zombie
First America, and then the world! Here is an interview I did at Swedish Zombie.
Tell us a little about yourself. What do you do when you’re not writing?
I’m a mum so I have to have a pretty regimented day in order to get everything done. I write for several hours, then I exercise which most days, is a brisk hour’s walk. I often use that time to plan the next scene in my book. I write some of my best dialogue that way! My daughters tell me they can always tell when I’m doing dialogue because of all the facial contortions I do while I act out the scene in my head. Once the kids get home, my writing day ends and my family life begins. Once the kids are in bed, I have me time, which usually takes the shape of a good book or a sci fi/fantasy tv show.
How is it that you became a writer? When did you start writing?
I was a compulsive reader as a child and I think becoming a writer is a natural progression from that. I took a long break from writing to raise my kids and it was only when I fell in love with the zombie genre, that the vague urge to write once again became a compulsion. With the encouragement and example of other authors like Stephen North and Rhiannon Frater, I finally sat down to write my book. When I wrote the first line, ‘The first hint of the plague which was to destroy our world came with a brief report on the morning news’, I only knew that I wanted to tell an exciting zombie adventure from a mom’s point of view. I let the story evolve from there. For ten weeks, I thought and did nothing else but zombies. It was great!
Tell us a little about yourself. What do you do when you’re not writing?
I’m a mum so I have to have a pretty regimented day in order to get everything done. I write for several hours, then I exercise which most days, is a brisk hour’s walk. I often use that time to plan the next scene in my book. I write some of my best dialogue that way! My daughters tell me they can always tell when I’m doing dialogue because of all the facial contortions I do while I act out the scene in my head. Once the kids get home, my writing day ends and my family life begins. Once the kids are in bed, I have me time, which usually takes the shape of a good book or a sci fi/fantasy tv show.
How is it that you became a writer? When did you start writing?
I was a compulsive reader as a child and I think becoming a writer is a natural progression from that. I took a long break from writing to raise my kids and it was only when I fell in love with the zombie genre, that the vague urge to write once again became a compulsion. With the encouragement and example of other authors like Stephen North and Rhiannon Frater, I finally sat down to write my book. When I wrote the first line, ‘The first hint of the plague which was to destroy our world came with a brief report on the morning news’, I only knew that I wanted to tell an exciting zombie adventure from a mom’s point of view. I let the story evolve from there. For ten weeks, I thought and did nothing else but zombies. It was great!
Read the whole interview at Swedish Zombie
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