Ask the Author: Kate O'Donnell
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Kate O'Donnell
Never a problem with me. Right now I'm working on a novel set in German Occupied Paris during World War II and Allied Occupied Germany after, and I have the first chapter written for a novel set in Northern Ireland during the troubles. It drives me crazy that I have to devote so much time to promoting A TALE OF THORNS AND HONEY.
Kate O'Donnell
I woke up with a bad hair day. Then the modeling agency called with an appointment that morning.
Kate O'Donnell
I think I mentioned this before, but I'm currently working on - or would be if I wasn't tangled up in trying to get A TALE OF THORNS AND HONEY promoted - a romance set in WW II Paris and Allied Occupied Germany after. It's a long work, and I would like to have it published traditionally, but it may be a hard sell because my protagonist is a Waffen man. I believe good people can become entangled in the worst of circumstances, as does Wulfe von Brandt. To compound problems, he falls in love with an Irish-American woman who is stranded in Paris when the Germans take over and now works for the Resistance. It is actually done and only needs one more quick edit, if there is such a thing for anal retentive me. After that, I have a novel place in the Troubles in Northen Ireland. I find I seek more challenging projects the longer I write.
Kate O'Donnell
Don't give up and keep your day job for as long as you need it. Some very few writers get very right off the get-go, but it's a long, hard slog for the majority of us. Remember, Steven King's Carrie was rejected twenty times, so you also have to hang in there.
Kate O'Donnell
That you get to adjust your own thumb screws or select your own rack? I love being a writer. I read something to the effect that if a man - i.e. person - has planted a tree, written a book and created a child, he has lived a complete life. I've done all three and I find it true. Actually, I write because I cannot not write. Unlike many writers, I never thought of writing until I was an at home mom with two sons and an addiction to reading. It was then that I read a really, really abysmal book, thought, 'I can do better than that!" and did.
What I like most about being a writer is that rare feeling when everything just flows and I think, "Damn, I'm Good!," and I am.
What I like most about being a writer is that rare feeling when everything just flows and I think, "Damn, I'm Good!," and I am.
Kate O'Donnell
I'm one of those lucky people who never seem to get writer's block. My problem is that I have so many stories I want to write and so little time. I want to get A TALE OF THORNS AND HONEY promoted and doing well. That's taking up all my time now. I have three traditionally published novels I want to self-publish and a third massive story set in World War II Paris and Occupied Germany after that I need to polish and seek agents for. That being said, I find ideas come to me when I walk or run. The problem there is that I'm so busy that I often use that time for phone calls or texting.
Kate O'Donnell
It came to me when I read about Llewelyn ab Gruffydd's risings and defeats in his bid for an independent Wales in Thomas B. Costain's THE THREE EDWARDS.
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