“I saw on your video that it took a long time to write Web of Angels. Why was that?”
It’s been an eight year journey! After I came back from China with my younger daughter, I spent a couple of years on a historical novel that went nowhere. Just to get a break from it, I decided, for a lark, to write about something else. It was the fastest first draft I’d every written, and about half way through got much more serious than I’d planned. At the end of it, I was gripped–called to write about the subject I’d chosen. It would be more accurate to say the subject chose me! And that was a good thing, because many trials lay ahead of me and many, many drafts. The challenge was to take a subject that I was passionate about and had expertise and knowledge in and turn it into literature. It was harder to do than beginning with a story and then learning about the subject! But I felt so strongly about it that my determination carried me past the defeats and the doubts to bring the book to fruition. Here we are, and I am prouder of Web of Angels than any other book I’ve written yet.
