Ask the Author: Linda Naseem
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Linda Naseem
I have just started re-reading Mists of Avalon, an old book but one of my favorites. It's a thick book, so I might be reading it all summer.
I just finished Raven Steals the Moon by Garth Stein, also an old book but new to me. I loved the spiritual concepts in the book, and the resolution to the main problem.
I just finished Raven Steals the Moon by Garth Stein, also an old book but new to me. I loved the spiritual concepts in the book, and the resolution to the main problem.
Linda Naseem
I'm afraid my life hasn't been very mysterious. Adventurous, yes, a bit. The only mystery is my ancestry, and I intend someday to write a novel about my immigrant grandparents & great-grandparents, now that I know some of the story. But it won't be in the least bit mysterious!
(It will have to be a novel because the family members who knew all the details are gone.)
(It will have to be a novel because the family members who knew all the details are gone.)
Linda Naseem
Jane Eyre & Rochester, of course! Because I am a die-hard romantic and what could be more romantic than their story: they fall in love, she leaves him for moral reasons despite his pleading & starts a new life, he loses everything and becomes an invalid and she hears him calling her name, rushes to his side,nurses him back to health & they live happily ever after.
i know it doesn't really happen like that, but how delicious!
i know it doesn't really happen like that, but how delicious!
Linda Naseem
I have always been a writer, so I can't compare it to any other way of being. I was the kid with newsprint on her face and ink on her fingers. It is the way I see the world: how I transform what I see and hear and experience into memories, how I work through problems, how I hold my pieces together. I am just publishing my first book now in my "old age", but I didn't start being a writer now. That started the first time I picked up a pen. Maybe before.
Linda Naseem
It was, unfortunately, inspired by personal experience. I was married to a meth addict for way too long. And in my work as an RN I worked on AIDS units and in the County Jail, and spoke to many meth users over the years. I know that world inside and out, and it is a very ugly world. I purposely tried to portray that ugliness in this book.
Linda Naseem
I make myself sit down and write. Even if it's only a sentence. When I'm working on a novel I write as much as I can every day. The next day I go back and edit what I wrote the day before, and that usually gives me the inspiration to write more.
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