What's in your St. Valentine's Day Box?

                 My St. Valentine's Day box is full of authors willing to take time out and be interviewed!  I am so grateful for the response that I have received thus far.  In January, British author Anne Purser contributed to "The Writer's Corner" with a charming and insightful narrative.

In February (just last week) best-selling author, Jo-Ann Mapson, 'stopped by' and shared with us......shared so much it was put into three parts. I love when that happens!

March's guest author will be Susan Elia MacNeal, whose Maggie Hope mysteries are also best-sellers.

There's nothing like checking my email one last time before bed and finding a reply from Mark Childress accepting my invitation.   I just heard from Jeffrey Deaver; and while he is buried with work right now he is willing to be interviewed later, sometime this summer.  Most authors have responded positively or (if schedule doesn't allow now)  by leaving the door open for later.

It doesn't really surprise me that the authors are relating similar experiences, in their interviews, that I have had in my writing life.

Jo-Ann Mapson said, "The “zone,” that wonderful, addictive, “I am but a vessel” kind of feeling only comes when it wishes, doggone it, but I always write in pursuit of it. It’s writer cocaine."

And when I asked Jo-Ann where she found her characters, she replied, "They come to me in brief images initially. I can’t quite see their faces, but I know their feelings....."

Ann Purser wrote about inspiration, "Inspiration? There`s a thing. Who knows where it comes from? A fevered imagination in my case......."

Susan Elia MacNeal wrote:  "I was absolutely mesmerized and there was a moment—a brief moment, outside the typists’ room (#10 Downing St.) —where I swore I could hear the typewriters, smell the cigarette smoke, feel the tension. It lasted a mere moment, but it changed my life completely."

If my readers enjoy "The Writer's Corner" half as much as I do then you are in for a real treat. I have seven authors lined up (to date) and another thirty have been invited.  And the invitation list grows daily.

My thanks to all the authors who will be visiting 'The Writer's Corner' in the months to come.  You have knocked me over with

your generosity!!

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Start your month off right!! DON'T MISS UPCOMING BLOGS. A NEW SERIES, "The Writer's Corner" INTERVIEWS with other best-selling AUTHORS!

I have had a wonderful response from other authors and plan on featuring an interview once a month . I have invited such luminaries as: Ann Purser, Susan Elia MacNeal, Mark Childress, Robert McCammon, Rhys Bowen, Dean Koontz, Sheryl Woods, Jo-Ann Mapson, Jeffrey Deaver, Elizabeth Gilbert, Walter Mosley, Nora Roberts, and many others.

So come along with me; we shall sneak into these writers' special places, be a fly on the wall and watch them create!

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