Ask the Author: Michele Drier
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Michele Drier
I was married to a Holocaust survivor and I would love to know what happened to his family. He was sent to an orphanage in France when he was ten and never found any trace of his parents or siblings.
Michele Drier
It's hard to pull one out of the crowd. I love Lawrence Durrell for his voluptuous use of language. Umberto Eco for his richly layered plots. John Barth for his post-modernist wit. Kate Atkinson and Tana French for their character studies and internal dialogue.
But I'd have to say that my all-time favorite is Doris Lessing. Her Matty Quest series, her African stories, her ability to understand and relate madness and her use of language, vivid metaphor and simile is stunning.
But I'd have to say that my all-time favorite is Doris Lessing. Her Matty Quest series, her African stories, her ability to understand and relate madness and her use of language, vivid metaphor and simile is stunning.
Michele Drier
Write. Read. Read more. Write again. Find writers you enjoy or who inspire you and write something in their style. Read. Read. And keep writing.
Michele Drier
By reading. I read three or four books a week and I study other genres and styles. I also have a strong sense of "what if?" It's a curiosity that makes me want to figure out how things work and then tell the stories.
Michele Drier
Delta for Death is set against the crippling drought in California and the political battle over water that the state is constantly engaged in. Is water enough to kill for?
Michele Drier
The third book in the Amy Hobbes Newspaper Mysteries series. It's called Delta for Death. After that, I'm writing the ninth book in the Kandesky Vampire Chronicles, SNAP: I, Vampire, then a stand-alone science fiction that's been rattling around in my brain for a year or so.
Michele Drier
Getting to spend the day in my jammies playing with my imaginary friends! Seriously, it's fulfilling to tell good stories that others want to read.
Michele Drier
Go write something else. A blog, a short story, a grocery list. Just putting words together can get me over a hump. Or, if it's a plot or character problem, I'll work it out on a walk. I'm trying to walk 10,000 steps, but usually make about 3.5 miles. Once my body's moving, my mind frees itself up.
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