Distortion

1. What types of books do you write?
I write dark mysteries infused with an in-your-face examination of female sexual image and politics.

2. What is the latest book you have written?
My first crime novel, DISTORTION was just released by Buzz Books USA. It's about an artist who paints a crime scene in reverse perspective and turns a murder investigation backwards--onto her friends. The FBI asks her to spy on those friends, for her country. Adele refuses ... until someone starts killing them. Now she'll use the FBI, the clues--and even her friends--to save them. It's now available in paperback, Kindle and Nook formats.

3. Is it part of a series, if so which one?
It's the first in my Adele Proust, pop art mysteries.

4. When did you start writing?
I wrote in my teens and early twenties, but then life got busy and I set it aside while I first foought apartheid, then raised children. About three years ago, I took up writing again seriously.

5. Why did you start writing?
I created characters to give voice to different ideas that were rattling around in my mind. When I wrote down those character's perceptions, I could sort of clear my head. It felt great. So then the characters started interacting--which created story. Once I got to the story stage, the rest was mostly taking dictation from my characters. Like life and art, my characters may have been inspired by events or issues in my life, but then the characters turned around and inspired me right back I write as much to give voices to their authentic feelings as to consciously develop a plot.

6. Who are your influences?
Vonnegut, Chandler, Laura Ingalls Wilder, JK Rowling, Alexandre Dumas

7. What can we expect from you in the near future? Book signing events, other details
November 11: In-store Mystery and Book Signing at Hastings in College Station Gig ‘em Ags!
November 12: Crime City Central (UK) will feature the first chapter of DISTORTION on their radio/podcast. It’s also an iTunes download. I can take you down murderous backstreets while you’re jogging on the treadmill
November 12: KPFT Houston’s Larry Payne will interview me on “Interchange” at 8pm; also available as a podcast after it airs
November 12: Guest post on Sara Jayne Townsend’s “Imaginary Friends...
November 15: In-store Mystery and Book Signing at Domy Bookshop/Gallery, Houston (This shop is just blocks from the first murder in the book.)
November 16th: Guest post on Jungle Red Writers blog