Basically, I’m a writer like just about any other writer, but if I can’t find the twist that makes people say “huh?” I get bored very quickly. As a fiction writer, I want it in my pages, and as an Author Success Coach, I want to see it on the author’s face. There’s magic in every part of life, we just need to look for it. Whether it’s outside our front door, inside our head or part of a plan for success, creative and unique solutions are everywhere! I love to challenge myself in big ways. When I decided to write The Twice-Baked Vampire series I asked myself the simplest question I could think of. What really happens to a vampire after he finally dies? We all know what previous authors have told us and what contemporary authors and writers subscribe to … I thought something different. I thought, OMG! What if that poor vampire, Gabriel Strickland, simply wakes up in West Hollywood and has to live out purgatory in a secret warehouse filled with other really dead supernaturals? What if he has to do everything he can to earn redemption and his own ticket through the Pearly Gates? The concept lent itself to a character readers could sympathize with, a unique world view no one’s ever written before. It seemed like a LOT of fun to write. That’s me and my writing.
