Ask the Author: Gayle Siebert
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Gayle Siebert
Write, write, write and write some more. Then get a good editor:)
Gayle Siebert
I just finished "Silver Buckles" and thought I'd take a bit of a break before starting my next novel. There is plenty to do during the summer around the farm and it seems nonsensical to be stuck inside. But my next story is boiling around in my head so here I sit, at the computer, working on my third thriller, in which the protagonists from the first two work together against a common foe. I haven't got a name for the book yet but think it should carry on with the word "Secret" in it somehow. Suggestions?
Gayle Siebert
So many good things! The best would have to be all the characters blooming in your mind. I've found they become imaginary friends like those you might have had when you were a child. I find myself missing them when the story is over. The therapy? Start another story, with new or recycled "friends".
Gayle Siebert
For years, the idea my dirt-poor grandparents, who lived in Southern Saskatchewan, had an American twenty-dollar gold piece niggled at me. How would they come by such a thing? Why did they still have it, after living through the Depression? Then I heard about a great uncle who murdered, allegedly because of connections to Al Capone. If you're unaware, Capone spent a lot of time in Saskatchewan and there is a tunnel complex, The Al Capone Tunnels, in Moose Jaw. My thriller, The Pillerton Secret, stitches together the gold coin and the Al Capone Tunnels, which have been conveniently relocated by artistic licence to fictional Pillerton. Imagine where one's mind can go with that!
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