Many of your characters suffer from mental health issues, why is this?
Mental health has always been a subject that fascinates and concerns me and I believe that it is another one of those subjects, that as a writer, I am in a position to illuminate and bring a slight understanding of to those who may have been lucky enough to have not experienced it.
In The E Killer I put Allie Murphy, the main character, in a position that would affect anybody's mental well being and her mental state was as much a cause of her actions as it was a result of them. I felt that showing this would enable the reader to better understand the woman that was before them and doing such terrible things.
In The Hunted Heir, Denna could not have the childhood that she needed to have to fit the story line without her having lasting psychological effects, to have such a horrific experience in early childhood is bound to leave a psychological scar.
In your third book, The E Killer, you briefly dealt with the subject of sexual and psychological abuse. Did you have any concerns about approaching such a subject?
Yes. For some time before and during the writing of that scene I was unsure whether or not to go ahead and keep the scene or whether I would rewrite it yet this is a terrible experience that a lot of women, and men, face in their lives and I don't think that we help anybody by shying away from the subject.
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