What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write Lilac Ink: The Knocknashee Story?
I read an article about a woman who threw a bottle with a note inside into the sea in Co Wexford in Ireland ,and a family walking on a beach in New Jersey found it, which sparked the idea for a story.
What’s your favorite genre to read? Is it the same as your favorite genre to write?
I love thrillers, but historical fiction will always have my heart.
What books are on your TBR pile right now?
So many – I’m just starting ‘The Dinner Guest’, and just finished ‘The Four Winds’.
What scene in your book was your favorite to write?
I love a good baddie and I have written a truly awful one in this series, so anything with Agnes Fitzgerald is fun to write.
Do you have any quirky writing habits? (lucky mugs, cats on laps, etc.)
I write in a glass office in my garden, so i’m surrounded by nature which is lovely. But I often write late at night, or in the early hours. I got into that habit when i worked full time as a teacher and wrote on the side.
Do you have a motto, quote, or philosophy you live by?
The overwhelming majority of people are basically good and kind everywhere, and we all want the same thing: to be safe and comfortable, but that doesn’t sell newspapers…
If you could choose one thing for readers to remember after reading your book, what would it be?
We have far more in common as human beings than the things that divide us, regardless of gender, geography, social class etc.
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