Ask the Author: Leigh Goodison

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Leigh Goodison Without question it would be The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier, published approximately 1969. After drinking a concoction left by his missing mentor, the protagonist is sent back in time to medieval Cornwall England. The story has always fascinated me.
Leigh Goodison The Gem Connection by Michael Lane
Leigh Goodison I certainly hope so. Despite the heat it was a terrific, well-planned event! I enjoyed it immensely.
Leigh Goodison I don't get writer's block, but occasionally I'll have a moment in a story where I'm not sure how to get from one point to another. In that case I'll just mark it as such and move on to the next scene.
Leigh Goodison The flexibility of being your own boss and working when you feel like it, whether it's at midnight in your office, or sitting on the beach with a notepad.
Leigh Goodison If you really want to be a writer, you should know in advance that it's not easy to get published on a traditional level. In the past I would have said, 'never give up your dream,' but now with Indy or self publishing, you can make your dreams happen without the wait.
Leigh Goodison My current project is a science fiction novel or what is currently termed 'New Adult.' I'm on the third draft stage now and hope to have it ready for submission within the next month.
Leigh Goodison The premise for Wild Ones was based, in part, on a story I read in 1998 about a series of suicides by teenagers in a youth correctional facility. Stark School, the fictional correctional facility in Wild Ones, was inspired by the Hillcrest Youth Correctional Facility in Salem, Oregon. It opened in 1914, the state’s first reform school for girls. It was turned into a co-ed facility in the ’70′s, but in 2008 became an all-male school. In fact, Stark School in my book is a co-ed facility. I have actually never visited Hillcrest, but my idea for Wild Ones was ‘what if the girls were actually happiest at the state-run school and it was the possibility of being sent away from their friends and to another foster home that they dreaded?’

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