Q: How did you get your start writing fiction and what genre do you predominantly write in?
A. I attended a writing conference when I was trying to write a non-fiction book about the loss of my spouse. (By the way, that book—The Tender Scar: Life After The Death Of A Spouse—came to fruition and is still in print seven years later). At the conference, two of the faculty—James Scott Bell and Alton Gansky—encouraged me to try my hand at fiction.
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