1–What is the title of your latest release? LITTLE PAULA 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? The sequel to Eden’s Children in which a father sells the child of his adopted son and daughter. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? The Poconos Mountains for the isolation and scenic beauty 4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? Yes and no. She’s too young for me, but she is a beautiful and intelligent young woman. 5–What are three words that describe your protagonist? Introspective, caring, and fearful. 6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? Character is strongly influenced by setting and peers. 7–Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done? Wait until totally done. 8–What’s your favorite foodie indulgence? Pizza. 9–Describe your writing space/office! A separate, isolated but bright part of my house. 10–Who is an author you admire? James Lee Burke 11–Is there a book that changed your life? Huck Finn 12–Tell us about when you got “the call.” (when you found out your book was going to be published)/Or, for indie authors, when you decided to self-publish. I have been writing V.C. Andrews…

What was your inspiration for BECOMING MY SISTER? Either from true crimes or from modern celebrity culture? I live in Palm Springs and have been at events and people’s homes and estates in what is the setting for this novel, The Movie Colony. So first, I thought of it as a perfect V.C. Andrews location, meaning the setting plays a dramatic role in the story. In our culture now especially, celebrity is almost a religious thing. People apply to celebrities what they apply to icons of film and television. Being in their presence is truly an almost spiritual event, even just seeing someone in person. To take that concept and apply it to the mother of two adolescents was a natural V.C. thought for me.  The girls are not so much in rivalry with themselves as they are with the ghosts of old movie stars. How can they compete? What does their mother demand of them in relation to this? How have the learned to deal with it and how does it make them more independent. Their father is almost oblivious to it all.  Gish, our man character, named after Lillian Gish, looks to her sister Gloria for guidance because…