Ask the Author: Gregg E. Brickman
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Gregg E. Brickman
The art of answering such a question is to act like the politicians and ignore the essence of the question entirely. Alas, like a lot of writers, if my life was filled with mystery and intrigue, I wouldn't need to make it up.
However, our move to the Upper Cumberland Plateau (read mountain) in Tennessee is a mystery to our friends. I'm capitalizing on the move by taking two of my characters with me, Sophia Burgess and Ray Stone from the Imperfect Series. Book four, tentatively titled Imperfect Escape, focuses on the meth problem that runs across the southern states--now called the meth belt.
First, read Imperfect Defense, which is available on May 1.
In Imperfect Defense, elder abuse becomes a reality to nurse Sophia Burgess after her elderly friend is murdered and the father-in-law of a powerful man comes to the hospital with injuries that do not look accidental. When her superiors don’t see it her way and refuse to report the suspected abuse, Sophia’s fiancé, Detective Ray Stone, encourages her to make the call. That action enrages the injured man’s daughter who goes on the offensive. Character assassination, both in the hospital and on social media appear more annoying than harmful—until the stalking begins.
Detective Stone works the murder case, but the closer he gets, the more dangerous Sophia's situation becomes. Must she pay the ultimate price for trying to protect the innocent?
However, our move to the Upper Cumberland Plateau (read mountain) in Tennessee is a mystery to our friends. I'm capitalizing on the move by taking two of my characters with me, Sophia Burgess and Ray Stone from the Imperfect Series. Book four, tentatively titled Imperfect Escape, focuses on the meth problem that runs across the southern states--now called the meth belt.
First, read Imperfect Defense, which is available on May 1.
In Imperfect Defense, elder abuse becomes a reality to nurse Sophia Burgess after her elderly friend is murdered and the father-in-law of a powerful man comes to the hospital with injuries that do not look accidental. When her superiors don’t see it her way and refuse to report the suspected abuse, Sophia’s fiancé, Detective Ray Stone, encourages her to make the call. That action enrages the injured man’s daughter who goes on the offensive. Character assassination, both in the hospital and on social media appear more annoying than harmful—until the stalking begins.
Detective Stone works the murder case, but the closer he gets, the more dangerous Sophia's situation becomes. Must she pay the ultimate price for trying to protect the innocent?
Gregg E. Brickman
If I don't have the next part of my story in mind, I go play in my garden or in my orchid arbor. The words will come. They always do.
Gregg E. Brickman
The real question is: What's the best thing about retiring from teaching nursing? Then the answer is, I have time to write as well as do all the other things I didn't have enough time to do in my former life. :-)
Gregg E. Brickman
My current work in progress has the working title Imperfect Obsession. It is number three in the Sophia Burgess and Ray Stone Imperfect Mystery Series. All the Imperfect Mysteries have a theme of abuse. In Imperfect Contract, the theme is spousal abuse. Imperfect Daddy focuses on child abuse. The these in Imperfect Obsession is elder abuse.
Gregg E. Brickman
Thinking about my w.i.p. (work in progress) creates the inspiration. I focus on where the story is going, then I have a need to hit the keyboard and make it so.
Gregg E. Brickman
The concept for She Learned to Die formed by asking myself a what-if question. What if a nursing student is found dead on campus and the nursing instructor is a suspect? The next step was to create my cast of characters while allowing the plot to form around them.
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