1. What were you in your life before you became
a writer? Did this influence your writing?
I have worked at a variety of jobs in my life: bank
teller, press operator, bookkeeper, prospector, and meat wrapper to name a few.
I began my writing career with travel and historical articles. I then
progressed into travel books about the Canadian provinces of Alberta and
British Columbia, the Canadian territory of the Yukon, and the state of Alaska.
When I wrote my first mystery novel, I made my main character a travel writer.
She runs into a mystery every time she is working on articles for travel magazines.
2 Are you
genre specific or general? Why? I don't mean genres like romance, mystery,
fantasy etc. There are many subgenres of the above.
I am what
I call a cross-genre writer. My mystery novels combine travel and romance with
the mystery, my sci-fi novels include mystery and romance, and my historical
novels also have romance and travel in them.
I love to read mystery novels; I like
surprise endings and I am disappointed when I have figured out the ending part
way through the book. So when I began fiction writing I wrote a mystery.
4. What's
your latest release?
My
publisher is bringing out a Canadian Historical Brides Series to celebrate
Canada’s 150th anniversary. There will be twelve books, each one
based on a piece of history that took place in each of the ten provinces plus
The Yukon and The Northwest Territories/ Nunavuk. I wrote a novel set in 1896,
the year that gold was discovered in The Yukon, the year before the great
Klondike Gold Rush began.
5. What
are you working on now? I am researching another historical novel and outlining
another mystery. My sister and I wrote a holiday romance that came out last
fall and we are discussing another one.
6. Where
can we find you?
My
website is: www.joandonaldsonyarmey.com
