Interview on The Bookshelf Cafe News

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It was a pleasure to engage in a written interview with the folks at The Bookshelf Cafe News. To talk about my writing and my first completed novel, the characters in it, was a thrill. It gave me the chance to consider things about myself, my stories, and the people I created to fill them in new and deeper ways. 

Read the interview here.


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