Ask the Author: Michael K. Foster
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Michael K. Foster
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Michael K. Foster
When I was younger I developed a compulsion to write short stories, and felt the need to say something and share it with others. Back in 2000, I was working in the law courts and over the the next ten years I learn't more about life than I dared to think about. It was this that got me into crime writing, and I was hooked!
Michael K. Foster
My next novel SATAN’S BECKONING, is another DCI Mason & Carlisle Crime Thriller. Now in it's final draft, my deadline is to get it published in September.
Here's a brief overview:
When a fatal road crash turns out to be murder, DCI JACK MASON is sent to investigate. Within the seemingly dark vaults of the police missing persons files, lay untold dangers. Young women are easy pickings for a serial killer who believes God has sent him to rid the world of an overindulgent appetite for greed. When criminal profiler DAVID CARLISLE is drafted in to assist, Carlisle is met by the killers wrath.
Here's a brief overview:
When a fatal road crash turns out to be murder, DCI JACK MASON is sent to investigate. Within the seemingly dark vaults of the police missing persons files, lay untold dangers. Young women are easy pickings for a serial killer who believes God has sent him to rid the world of an overindulgent appetite for greed. When criminal profiler DAVID CARLISLE is drafted in to assist, Carlisle is met by the killers wrath.
Michael K. Foster
Simple, never give up. You write because you love writing!
Michael K. Foster
Hey! I'm a crime writer and this my little world I have created. My characters belong to me, to come and go and do as I please with them. If I ever tire of them, I know how to get rid of them!
Michael K. Foster
I was watching TV one day when a well-known celebrity was going through a divorce settlement. He was 75 she was 26, and boy did they look an odd couple. What intrigued me more than anything was the money settlement his wife’s lawyers were seeking.
Michael K. Foster
It might not work for you, but it certainly works for me, is the process of observing things of everyday life and writing your ideas down. Yes, I keep copious notes, I need to, I’m the sort of guy who wishes my glasses had a dialing number to them.
The truth is, I never know what’s going to happen in my books. I don’t start at the beginning, neither do I work at the ending as many authors do. I work on an idea and expand on it never knowing where it’s going to take me. I call it my sculpturing process – just as a sculptor adds more clay or chips away at the subject matter. So if I ever do get writers block, I take a walk and think about another chapter!.
The truth is, I never know what’s going to happen in my books. I don’t start at the beginning, neither do I work at the ending as many authors do. I work on an idea and expand on it never knowing where it’s going to take me. I call it my sculpturing process – just as a sculptor adds more clay or chips away at the subject matter. So if I ever do get writers block, I take a walk and think about another chapter!.
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