I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You can't go wrong with major life and death stories when it comes to a competition, so I thought I'd have a go at writing one.
All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.
The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.
I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.
The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.
I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you're faced with a set of choices which will change life forever.
Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a storyteller more than a writer. The story - and hence the extensive research that goes into each one of my books - is much more important than the words that I use to narrate it.
I see myself as writing biographies, the complete story of someone's life.
My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.
I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.