What is the name of your book and what's it about?
It was a pleasure interviewing you Katy! Her book is available now on Amazon.com: http://tinyurl.com/6e5467o
Breakdown is a novel about a man’s journey to find lost friendship and love in a post-pandemic, post-technological breakdown society. It’s a book about the people first, and only marginally about the world they live in. But the world has shaped them, to some extent. Chris, the main character, has watched his wife and baby die in the pandemic, and travels home to Britain from New York to see if any of his family there is still alive. Also weighing on his mind is his former musical partner, Brian, with whom he’d had a falling out years before. Chris has put up a wall around his feelings. He has to learn to grieve and let go, to open his heart and learn to trust. Can he manage to let himself be happy again?
How did you come up with the idea for your book?
How long did the writing process take you for this particular book?
How long have you been writing?
I started writing in college in 1982. I stopped for many years to focus on my business of making costumes. I got back into writing about seven years ago, when the inspiration for this book hit me and I had to work on it. During lulls working on the book, I started a few other projects. So I have some other things to work on now this one is done.
Does anyone/anything inspire your writing? If so who/what?
My usual inspiration is dreams. I'll have a short, vivid dream that has the framework of a scene or story. Then I percolate that idea while I'm working in my sewing room. I write it down. Percolate some more. I often listen to music that fits the mood, no lyrics, while I'm thinking things through. Some of my major plot points have come from dreams.
How did you come up with the idea for your book?
Two things. One was an incredibly vivid dream I had many years ago. Just a man walking with his son through a city I recognized (Bath, England). But it was clear that things had changed. The people around them were dishevelled and ragged, the buildings were boarded up. That gave me the post-apocalyptic setting. The second was a complicated friendship I'd had, then lost, then mended. I knew how such a thing could eat away at someone inside, so I decided to use that.
How long did the writing process take you for this particular book?
I've been working on this book for close to seven years. I had bits and pieces of it for awhile, then worked to fill it out for some time, then set it aside for over a year. My New Year's resolution for 2011 was to finish it, finally. And get it published. And, amazingly, I did that.
How long have you been writing?
I started writing in college in 1982. I stopped for many years to focus on my business of making costumes. I got back into writing about seven years ago, when the inspiration for this book hit me and I had to work on it. During lulls working on the book, I started a few other projects. So I have some other things to work on now this one is done.
Does anyone/anything inspire your writing? If so who/what?
My usual inspiration is dreams. I'll have a short, vivid dream that has the framework of a scene or story. Then I percolate that idea while I'm working in my sewing room. I write it down. Percolate some more. I often listen to music that fits the mood, no lyrics, while I'm thinking things through. Some of my major plot points have come from dreams.
It was a pleasure interviewing you Katy! Her book is available now on Amazon.com: http://tinyurl.com/6e5467o
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