1. Could you tell us a little bit about yourself?
I suppose it would be safe to say I'm a student of history and it's effects past and current. I find it interesting to watch the effects of say for instance a menu, let's think back to our parents and their cocktail parties and the small bites served, you would have seen cheese and crackers, pickles, deviled eggs and cocktail wieners. Move forward to the 90's and the menu changes to pocket pizza, varied chips and dips, bacon wrapped scallops with single servings in adorable but hard to pick up miniature tankards of lobster bisque. Fast forward to present day and the menu becomes a hybrid of bacon wrapped scallops, deviled eggs, cheese and crackers with vege's and dip and perhaps something along the lines of a smoked salmon.
The men would have been dressed in dinner jackets for the bygone days in the 90's the Miami Vice look would have been favored and today the golf shirt and kaikai with a blazer perhaps jeans and a clubbing shirt would suffice.
Conversation would have centered on war, business, war, politics and sports for the men and prices at the grocers, fashion of the day, children, and church for our parents.
In the 90's it would have been sports, business, war and money for the men and children, how to make ends meet, i.e. money ( single parent homes ) fashion, but not much about church. Present day, not too different from the not too distant past.
Fashion: Well I'm sure men and women alike are grateful the blue tux didn't make the come back cut but it's out there folks and ladies, if you've ever looked in the back of your closet or taken a look into your well dressed mothers' you'll see nothing ever changes it just takes a break.
Sort of like cocktails, the Mojito, Cosmo, Manhattan, Gimlet,etc.
So what's the point of this study? I suppose it's this... the more you try to understand the past the more you respect the present and perhaps the future you - it's O.K. to be the 'little black dress and the bold print too.' So that's me a perpetual study.
2. Describe your book Sins of the Fathers in 30 words or less.
Sins of the Fathers is about a group of men and women caught in a fluid situation with dire implications for the freedoms of mankind on a global scale.
3. What was the hardest part of writing your book?
The hardest part of writing Sins of the Fathers you ask: Length; these characters had so much to say, they were strong, funny, resilient and loyal and the story wasn't quiet finished but...
4. What books have had the greatest influence on you?
I've always loved the classics, Wilkie Collins " The Woman In White " & " The Moonstone" Richard Bessel " Germany 1945 " John Colville " The Fringes of Power " everything Robert Ludlum, James Rollins, V.M.Straka, J.R.R.Tolkien, Erik Larson, Clive Cussler, Sam Bourne, John D. McDonald, Agatha Christie, Alfred Hitchcock, Edgar Allan Poe etc.
5. Briefly share with us what you do to market your book?
As to marketing my book, well there's you folks, word of mouth, small book stores and I'm trying to get into libraries.
6. How do you spend your time when you are not writing?
If I'm not doing research, traveling or being domestic then I can be found in one of two places- my favorite chair with a good read or my kitchen with a new set of spices or a new recipe either of the two is bliss. Or perhaps it's both at the same time!
7. What are you working on next?
At the moment I'm working on 'Flashback' the second installment to 'Sins of the Fathers'.
