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| SF - Why and when did you start writing creatively?
GM - I actually started writing creatively about twenty years ago, but no one was interested. I was always a storyteller, verbally, but one day I said, why not try my hand at writing a novel. I was reading several novels a month, and wondered if I, too, could create a story. SF - Where do you get the inspiration for your stories ? GM - My inspiration comes from things I hear people say or something I might see on the news. All I need is the seed and the story I create is of its own making. SF - Are there parts of you contained in your works? GM - Not really. Ninety percent of situations I write about, I know nothing about personally. SF - Do you identify with any one particular character? If so how? GM - The only title I have in print that has characters I can identify with is Weeping Willows Dance, and that's because Weeping Willows Dance is about my grandmother and mother. SF - What genre(s) are you most comfortable with? GM - I love mysteries and I love romance. I guess I'm comfortable with both and often try to combine the two. SF - Where do you hope to see your creative career go? GM - Like all writers, I guess I'd love to be writing still into my nineties. But I'd love to branch off into writing christian fiction as well as books for children and teenagers. SF - Have your life experiences influenced your work? If so, how? GM - Of course. I initially started writing in the first place because of my abusive childhood. Once I committed that experience to paper, my soul was healed. My fiction works thereafter all seem to have a dark side (real life situations) which may be a result of my childhood. Who knows. SF - What, if anything, would you like to share about you, the person? GM - H'mm. Share? I guess my personal wish that I would have loved to have had at least three children. I have one son and at times he still wishes for a sibling. I'm very maternal so that's something I share with others. SF - How has your transition to publication gone? GM - As with all transitions, there is always a period of adapting. I think I'm still adapting because nothing is as one would expect. Being a writer for most is hard work and not the life of leisure that many think that it is. SF - What would you like to do differently the next time? GM - Perhaps self-publish a whole lot earlier than I did so that I could have had a stronger foot in the publishing world. SF - To whom do you seek advice and / or support from? GM - My husband and a few of my closest friends. SF - When can your fans expect to enjoy your work again? GM - I don't like to say Fans. I like to say my readers. I know, quirky. Anyway, readers can expect What's Done In the Dark in January 2006. I hope readers will go out and buy it. SF - How can your fans reach you? GM - Those readers wanting to write to me can write me at [email protected] and can also drop onto my website at www.gloriamallette.com SF - Do you have any presently scheduled events for the next few months? GM - Actually, I have no events scheduled for the immediate future. I recently moved from New York City to Stroudsburg, PA so I'm still trying to settle in. Hopefully, 2006 will see me doing more in a literary sense. SF - What books / poetry / artwork have you read / seen lately that you would like to recommend? GM - Sorry, can't recommend anything current as I've been in move mode since November 2004. I am way behind. SF - What is your idea of fun? GM - Currently, if I could just sit down and do nothing for two weeks, I'd have a grand ole time. SF - What experiences do you hope to one day have? GM - Like most writers, I'd love to experience seeing some of my characters come alive on the big screen, or little screen for that matter. SF - What places do you still wish to travel to? GM - Egypt. SF - Do you have an agent and if not are you looking for one? GM - I do have an agent. SF - How many not yet to be released works do you have keeping warm on the back burner? GM - Two manuscripts still in file cabinet with three in the works. SF - Who did your covers for you? GM - The publisher. Most writers have very little to say about covers no matter what the contract says. SF - Of all of your released works which is your favorite? And Why? GM - My favorite is Weeping Willows Dance because it is about my grandmother, whom I loved very much, and about my mother who died when I was only two and a half years old. SF - When / where / what type of environment are you most creative in? GM - I am most creative in the morning hours (8:00 a.m. till noon), and in a quiet space. SF - What other talents should everyone know you have? GM - If you want to call it talent, I can sing like the best out there while I'm painting, plastering, and hammering. SF - Outside of your present career, are there any other avenues you would still like to pursue? GM - Perhaps one day I'll paint. I've always wanted to be an artist. SF - Where would you like to see your life five years from now? GM - Five years from now, I like to still be writing, but I'd love to be more successful at it. SF - Do people act differently, once they realize who you are? If so, how does that make you feel? GM - Not really. Who am I? I'm just a person who just happens to have a job writing. SF - Are you in a commitment at this point in your life? GM - I've been married for nineteen and a half years. I'd say I'm commited. SF - What characteristics do you find important in those in you private world? GM - Honesty --- If a person is honest, they can be trusted and pretty much everything works from there. SF - Anyone out there you like to acknowledge? GM - My good friends. They know who they are. http://www.gloriamallette.com/ What's Done in the Dark, January 2006 |
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