True. It’s funny. Sometimes writers plot and outline and sometimes we merely trust the story to present itself and trust that all will work out well in the end. Tell me, do you write primarily to entertain or is there a spiritual message in your novel that you want your readers to grasp?
I wrote it to entertain myself mostly! But it is doing a bang up job of entertaining others. But the spiritual message I purposely put in would be about purity. That there is no shame in being in that state though the world would have us think otherwise. Whether it be physical purity, mental, emotional or spiritual, with purity there is great power.
You created a large cast of characters in various time communities and settings. It takes a lot of faith in the muse to trust that everything would come together in the end? And this book is part of a trilogy – have you outlined all the strands of the story?
This book is actually a twelve-book series done in sets of three. I’m working on the first set which is all outlined and I am writing the second book now. And I pretty much have the next three sets roughly outlined, in which there are several common threads running through.
What do you think makes a good story?
When I was a reviewer I read a ton of books. In many of these books, either the story was good, but the writing was bad, or the writing was good and the story was bad. You have to have both. Even better, if you have a character-driven story AND a good plot, then you have a winner.
What’s on your nightstand?
Currently Frank Creed’s book, Flash Point, Secret Files of The Diogenes Club by Kim Newman, The Case of The Missing Books by Ian Sansom, and a manuscript I’m editing entitled Slave Auction by Ray Anselmo which is quite good, I might add.
What are your current projects?
I’m finishing up a workbook that actually is a more in depth study of the relationship dynamics found in Time Masters Book One: The Call. It’s aimed primarily for teens and young adults. It can be used in Youth Groups, private study or by moms who home school their teens to help them learn more about relationships. And working on Time Master’s Book Two: The Prophecy.
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