Beth Anderson
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Cameron Joseph:
I read The Forth House it's a scary story, also surprising. I did not put the book down I finished it. I really liked it. Do you have a process when you start a book like that? Will there be a sequel to The Forth House?
Cameron Joseph
Thank you, Beth, for your rates and review. I'm glad you liked the Forth House. I don't have a specific process, when I write I like to give the characters space. I just go where the story leads me, first the rough draft and revisions come later.
The Forth House was an idea I had last year. I have been working on a volume of short stories 8-12,000 words, I wanted three or four shorts for that. One afternoon I started a story called The Zombification of Laura Moon. It was about a young couple who decide to fraud an insurance company by faking her death. That young couple was Billy and Laura Moon.
Billy becomes fixated on a mirror they find at an antique shop. Then just as they are starting their caper he learns(from the mirror) that Laura has been unfaithful. I liked the young couple. And I was having trouble with a starter for the Forth House, I had a draft but was not pleased with the beginning. So I decided to use Billy and Laura Moon.
I started typing and 20,000 words later I read what I typed. That was the rough draft, after a few revisions, I had the story of the Forth House.
Yes, there may be a sequel if readers like this story.
The Forth House was an idea I had last year. I have been working on a volume of short stories 8-12,000 words, I wanted three or four shorts for that. One afternoon I started a story called The Zombification of Laura Moon. It was about a young couple who decide to fraud an insurance company by faking her death. That young couple was Billy and Laura Moon.
Billy becomes fixated on a mirror they find at an antique shop. Then just as they are starting their caper he learns(from the mirror) that Laura has been unfaithful. I liked the young couple. And I was having trouble with a starter for the Forth House, I had a draft but was not pleased with the beginning. So I decided to use Billy and Laura Moon.
I started typing and 20,000 words later I read what I typed. That was the rough draft, after a few revisions, I had the story of the Forth House.
Yes, there may be a sequel if readers like this story.
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