Ask the Author: Mary Connealy
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Mary Connealy
Tiffany, this is so hard. The standard answer has to be...the one I'm working on now. That sounds like a dodge or like a cliche maybe, but the truth is, when you're in the middle of writing a series, I at least, get so deep into the characters, get to know them, enjoy them, and so you feel closest to them, the ones you're working on right now.
Mary Connealy
Hi Kate, I love pulling characters from old series into new series. i just always have an ... awareness ... I guess ... that those characters are out there and need to have their own story. I plan some of them but not all.
Mary Connealy
My favorite fictional couple is Bailey Wilde and Gage Coulter from Fire & Ice.
Mary Connealy
I've visited the area where my book is set, northern New Mexico, near some ancient (and some still existing) villages on top of mesas. And I've enjoyed the myth and mystery around the mesa, and I knew the land and how much it seemed like stark desert, but was in fact great cattle country. I wanted to set a book there. And I wanted a family saga. A family with deep roots that were powerful, and yet the family was being challenged and these strong and diverse personalities needed to work together.
Mary Connealy
It's trying to do anything else that is the problem for me. Writing is my default activity. People come and pry me out from behind the computer sometimes. Like my children and husband.
Mary Connealy
Long Time Gone is coming in February. It's book #2 of my Cimarron Legacy Series. I'm currently working on book #3, Too Far Down.
Mary Connealy
come by seekerville.blogspot.com it's my group blog for aspiring writers. We throw a party there everyday and have a great community and you can't help learning while you're having fun.
Mary Connealy
Writing. Absolutely. There is SO MUCH MORE TO IT, but creating a story is the best part.
Mary Connealy
I just keep writing. No doubt I should block myself, but I keep going. I've never had writers block
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