Ask the Author: Anne Fox
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Anne Fox
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Anne Fox
The mystery is: Who is my real father?
I've always felt that I'm not really a part of the family I grew up in. I'm sure I'm my mother's child, but recently when going through family documents had the opportunity to look through my mother's old high school yearbook. (My father—or I should say the father I knew—never graduated from high school.) When I looked through her yearbook, I noticed that I look remarkably like one of her classmates.
Adding to this, my mother had told me at one point that she was pregnant with me when the man I knew as my father had a serious accident on his motorcycle that nearly took his life. Neither she nor my father ever gave me any additional details to this. In my family, silence usually means there's some "earth-shattering" secret that's being hidden.
Prior to my mother's death, she made a curious statement to me. I live far removed from the rest of the family, and in her later years my mother was bed-ridden and being cared for in part by my younger brother's wife. I would call occasionally to talk with Mom, and during one conversation she mentioned that my sister-in-law was there to take care of her. She then said with some derision in her voice my sister-in-law's name, followed by my brother's last name—emphasized. The impression I got was that she was part of the family, but I was not!
After my mother's death, I questioned my father about when his accident had occurred. He didn't answer and just hung up.
I now wonder if my mother, fearing her husband would die, had an affair with an old high school beau and that perhaps I am the result.
I'm sure there are plenty of books out there already, both fiction and fact, about people searching for the truth about their parentage. I write crime fiction, though. I wonder what kind of twist I could put to that sort of situation for a good crime novel?
I've always felt that I'm not really a part of the family I grew up in. I'm sure I'm my mother's child, but recently when going through family documents had the opportunity to look through my mother's old high school yearbook. (My father—or I should say the father I knew—never graduated from high school.) When I looked through her yearbook, I noticed that I look remarkably like one of her classmates.
Adding to this, my mother had told me at one point that she was pregnant with me when the man I knew as my father had a serious accident on his motorcycle that nearly took his life. Neither she nor my father ever gave me any additional details to this. In my family, silence usually means there's some "earth-shattering" secret that's being hidden.
Prior to my mother's death, she made a curious statement to me. I live far removed from the rest of the family, and in her later years my mother was bed-ridden and being cared for in part by my younger brother's wife. I would call occasionally to talk with Mom, and during one conversation she mentioned that my sister-in-law was there to take care of her. She then said with some derision in her voice my sister-in-law's name, followed by my brother's last name—emphasized. The impression I got was that she was part of the family, but I was not!
After my mother's death, I questioned my father about when his accident had occurred. He didn't answer and just hung up.
I now wonder if my mother, fearing her husband would die, had an affair with an old high school beau and that perhaps I am the result.
I'm sure there are plenty of books out there already, both fiction and fact, about people searching for the truth about their parentage. I write crime fiction, though. I wonder what kind of twist I could put to that sort of situation for a good crime novel?
Anne Fox
She spent all night, feverishly finishing the 120,000-word novel she had labored over for the past two months. Then her cat jumped on the keyboard and the whole book was gone - POOF!
Anne Fox
I'd go to the one in my THE UNIT series. And oddly, two of the locations there are currently for sale! Anyone have $700,000 they'd like to give me???
Anne Fox
Mainly books I'm reading for research for my own writing. But I have also been reading a variety of books written by new authors. Some are nose-holders, others are gems!
Anne Fox
I wish I could answer this, but the truth is, I really don't know. Especially as that book has evolved into a series of books, each one building upon the former. But the first in the series? I really can't recall, especially as it came close on the heels of my first book, which is a completely different genre.
Anne Fox
Can I even answer this? Lots of it comes, for my current series, from reading the news and searching the Internet. Much of it is based on my own background.
Anne Fox
I have a crime/law enforcement series that I'm currently writing called The Unit I've known many people in law enforcement, have a great deal of admiration for most of them, and even considered a job with the FBI myself at one point. (I wanted to be a forensic DNA chemist in their lab.) This series takes it up one level. What if there was a unique group of people with the common goal of solving the "unsolvable" crimes?
Anne Fox
READ! READ, READ, READ!!! What makes a story work for you? What captivates you? Can you make that idea in your head as captivating as the books you've read that truly held your attention? You can? Then get to work!
Anne Fox
Really, just getting the story out of my head and onto paper. When you have tales banging around in your head, they give you a headache. :)
Anne Fox
I literally sleep on it. I find that if I go to sleep while thinking about the tale I'm writing, I wake with new ideas as to how to tell the tale. Maybe a goofy way of dealing with writer's block, but it seems to work for me!
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