Q: How did you get your start writing fiction and what genre do you predominantly write in?
A. I’ve loved to write stories since I was a kid and studied novel writing in college. I completed five unpublished novels, mostly for youth, before I began Fatal Illusions, my first published novel of Christian suspense, in the spring of 2002 in conjunction with a Writer’s Digest novel-writing correspondence course. Literary agent Steve Laube, a well-known and respected voice in Christian fiction, responded

Q: How did you get your start writing fiction and what genre do you predominantly write in?
A. I started writing novels while in college, then wrote screenplays for years, before switching back to novels about 15 years ago. Even though my work is categorized by genre (historical fiction, mystery/thriller), each has elements of literary and other genres that don’t fit neatly into any category.

Q: What part of a writing career do you find most difficult?
A. It’s my everyday life that

Q: How did you get your start writing fiction and what genre do you predominantly write in?
A. Short answer first: my main genre is Christian suspense/mystery. And it all started with a dark “what if” question that wouldn’t leave me alone until I wrote it. Many years—and revisions—later, that turned into my debut novel, Heaven’s Prey.

Q: Would you tell us about your current book release, Hidden Secrets?
A: The secrets of Captain Hiltz may not have died with him.

When Landon Smith