Who are your favorite authors?
My most favourite author is MM Kaye, who wrote 'The Far Pavilions'. I have read other work by her, but that novel stands out the most in my memory because although it was fiction, it was built from her own life experiences. It had such a ring of truism that it was eerie. It was huge and took a whole month to read but I really didn't want it to finish. I also love Rebecca Shaw's 'Village Series' and Earlene Fowler's 'Benni Harper Mysteries'. I am an avid reader and will read absolutely anything, from instructions to the backs of shampoo bottles when I get very desperate. I often have a few books on the go at once in different rooms but when I find one that I love, I will carry it everywhere with me just in case I get a few moments down time. I'm not satisfied until I have completely devoured it.
What inspires you to get out of bed each day?
Sometimes I actually don't want to get up. I work and have a family as well as writing. I get up early and go for a run or a blast on my exercise bike - although I have recently rigged up a way of reading my Kindle on the bike. I believe in a forgiving God, which is just as well as I am always doing things wrong, but I have seen how fragile and precious life is. I try to do at least one nice thing for someone a day and that is definitely worth getting up for. Once a day doesn't sound a lot, but it's easy to get to the end of the day and realise I didn't do it, or that I just got too busy in my own stuff and didn't even notice a need. My faith has carried me through a lot of hard circumstances.
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