My next book is actually my "first" book. That manuscript that you've had stuffed in a drawer, or in my case, let gather dust in your laptop documents. I've revised it multiple times, and to date, I'm still not satisfied with it. My goal is to have it available here and in other retail outlets before the end of the year. It's a story line that I identify with on multiple levels, from life experience with hospitals, rehabilitation, a patient who was lost in a coma for days following femur repair (remember, I'm a retired RN), characters that are loosely based on persons I know...but only loosely. It is a story of devastating consequences of a poorly hatched plan to end the pain inherent in some of the most important relationships in the protagonist's life. And it is a story of finding one's own resilience and reinventing one's future when it becomes necessary. Be watching for Unintended Consequences before the end of the year.

I love to create new characters first, and then develop plots. My characters become so much a part of me that they feel like family. I write what I know to some extent, as fiction writers are taught to do. Much of that comes into play when determining where my stories take place. All of them involve places I have lived, at least in part of the story, which enables me to clearly envision the setting in detail that would be much harder to develop without that experience. I write small elements into my plots that I have experienced; only enough to make it authentic without removing the essence of fiction, a story created in the mind of the author. Readers should not make the mistake of thinking that my plots, or characters for that matter, are autobiographical. By the time you have lived to the age of retirement, you've acquired a lot of experiences and known a lot of people, snippets of which can be woven into the author's story with no semblance whatever to real events or people.
I write for my own pleasure and hope that my readers will enjoy reading the stories I create as much as I enjoy writing them.

Craig Johnson has replaced Mark Twain as my absolute favorite. Twain held that place since I was in high school, but when I discovered the Walt Longmire Mysteries by Mr. Johnson, it was love at first read. I have also grown to love history writers, Ron Chernow and David McCullough, and John Grisham has been one of my favorites for at least 15 years.

I read eBooks on my Kindle app on my phone, so many of them are discovered on Amazon.

Scriptures, fiction, and some non-fiction, in that order.

My phone, without question.