1. What were you before you became an author? Did this
influence your choices as a writer?
I've done a lot of different jobs in my life. I've been a
waitress, a librarian, a secretary, an executive for a not-for-profit
organization, an information technology specialist and more. But I've always
been a writer in one form or another. I started with poetry, wrote articles for
a company newsletter, and moved into fiction about eight years ago.
Unfortunately, my writing had never supported me financially, so I'm still
working a day job.
And yes, I've drawn on all of those experiences for my
writing. My characters have worked in many of those same professions. I have no
problems with my heroes and heroines being computer programmers or security
analysts. Or an ex-librarian, like Harmony, my amateur female sleuth.
2. Are you genre specific or general? I don’t mean major
genres but subdivisions or romance, mystery or paranormal.
I have both a mystery series and an urban fantasy/paranormal
series, so I have to say general. And while the Harmony Duprie Myteries are
more light-hearted, I'm prepping for a much grittier female private
investigator series. That may be a year or two away, depending upon how quickly
I get the next Harmony story finished. The original story is one I wrote
several years ago, but it needs a total rewrite before it ever leaves my
computer.
3. What is your latest release?
My latest release is The Samurai's Inro, the fifth book in
the Harmony Duprie Mysteries. Here's the description:
Trouble
has a long memory and is stalking Harmony Duprie.
Harmony
Duprie has it made. Or so she thinks.
New job.
New
routine.
A quiet
life in the quiet little town of Oak Grove.
Oh, and
Eli.
But
trouble has a long memory and it’s playing a deadly game.
Friends'
cars stolen.
Her
apartment ransacked.
The
duplicate of a stolen Japanese antique carved box left behind.
Trouble
follows wherever she goes, including the parking lot of the police station. Not
even the want-to-be bodyguard brought in by Police Chief Sorenson can end the
harassment. And all her research leads to dead ends.
Can
Harmony identify the face of trouble before she loses and the winner takes her
life as the final prize?
Let the
games begin.
I
love getting Harmony into trouble and
figuring out how to get her back out again. She often surprises me with the
answer when I least expect it.
4. What are you working on now?
I'm working on The Ranger's Dogtags, the sixth (and probably
last) book in The Harmony Duprie Mysteries. I don't have a description pulled
together, but I've taken Harmony out of her comfort zone and her hometown and
thrown her simple life into chaos.
5. Does your reading choices influence your choice of a
writing career?
I love reading
romances. I'm bad at writing them. But all of my stories have a major romantic
subplot and that satisfies my need to make my characters happy. I also read
science fiction but can't imagine ever tackling that genre. Truth is, I'll read
almost anything but I know my limitations when it comes to writing.
6. Where can we find you?
I can be found here:
Website: http://pjmaclayne.com
Facebook https://facebook.com/pjmaclayne
Twitter https://twitter.com/pjmaclayne
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