Ask the Author: Deborah Mitton
Answered Questions (15)
Deborah Mitton
Hello, Daniel. I just noticed this and I'm so sorry that I did not reply earlier. I am very well and you?
Deborah Mitton
The pregnant woman asked the train conductor if he would watch her suitcase as she needed to use the train's small washroom. She never came out.
Deborah Mitton
Watching You - by J.A. Schneider; Incognito by Khaled Talib; Grammer Nazis Are Not Always Rite by Robert K. Swisher Jr. & The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor by Sally Armstrong (this is my book club selection). Hopefully my eyes will allow me to read these wonderful authors
Deborah Mitton
A Dream, really it is very important for a writer to have a pen and paper by your bedside. Hopefully you will be able to read what you wrote the next morning. "Alice of Fiddlehead Row" might be a YA ... I'm not sure yet. It will depend on how Dark it is. I won't let my grandkids read my work yet. I'm easing them into it by giving them Stephen King to read first.
Deborah Mitton
Dreams !! Both while sleeping and daydreams. Mine are vivid and in amazing color. If you have read my book(s) they are also Dark & Scary. (Inserting evil laugh here) HEHEHEHEH.
Deborah Mitton
I'm working on Seven Secrets Never to be Told. Part 2 in my serial "Murder of Crows." It's almost completed and I hope to publish by June. I'm also working on Part 3 - One for Sorrow. I have also started a new series "Fiddlehead Row" which I love writing. I'm spreading myself a little thin, but this old gal has only a few years left, so I'm pounding the keyboard.
Deborah Mitton
I have a very interesting life and a nodding acquaintance with Death. I would like to investigate my old high school. It's over 100 years old and I saw a ghost one day in grade Ten. This was in the 60's ... sorry not a drug user, so there is not reason I could come up with as to why I saw this young girl. Many years later I mentioned what I saw to a new friend who graduated from the same high school years before me. She saw it too and described the spirit - she saw the same ghost I did.
Deborah Mitton
Sorry I just found your question. Seven Secrets is completed and going to an editor. It is as dark as the first and I'm introducing a new villain for the third novel. I hope you will give it a go. Thank you for dropping by.
Deborah Mitton
Hi Nesley - sorry for the delay. I have been working on both the 2nd & 3rd book in the series. Trouble is I like the 3rd book better than the 2nd and it must come first. I'm thrilled that you enjoyed "Ten For The Devil" it is starting to get good reviews.
Deborah Mitton
I think what drew me to Stephen King's work was that he hit on my deepest fears.
So I learned to write about "what I fear the most" - dig deep, twist the knife in and than fight to overcome it. I love that he writes about everyday ordinary people who are placed in unusual or out of this world situations. The inner strengths are revealed and the person is never the same again. They are touched by evil but they let "their little light shine". :o)
I love the insecurity of his heroes / characters who are worried that they are crazy but you are reading it and shouting "no you're not ... its real...get your shit together".
Also the dialogue - he is a master at dialogue!
Thank you for asking Lorena :o)
So I learned to write about "what I fear the most" - dig deep, twist the knife in and than fight to overcome it. I love that he writes about everyday ordinary people who are placed in unusual or out of this world situations. The inner strengths are revealed and the person is never the same again. They are touched by evil but they let "their little light shine". :o)
I love the insecurity of his heroes / characters who are worried that they are crazy but you are reading it and shouting "no you're not ... its real...get your shit together".
Also the dialogue - he is a master at dialogue!
Thank you for asking Lorena :o)
Deborah Mitton
Thank you for asking Rebecca.
I do have a plot plan - and yes there were perhaps too many characters at the first of the book. That being said, this is book one is my series and I wanted to introduce characters that would be in the other novels.
I fell in love with most of my characters and I didn't think that Seth would nominate the story the way he did. Crafty little devil, isn't he?
I do have a plot plan - and yes there were perhaps too many characters at the first of the book. That being said, this is book one is my series and I wanted to introduce characters that would be in the other novels.
I fell in love with most of my characters and I didn't think that Seth would nominate the story the way he did. Crafty little devil, isn't he?
Deborah Mitton
Read everything you can get your hands on - watch people (please do not stalk) - make up stories in your head - tell stories to your family and friends and lastly write, write & write some more. :o)
Deborah Mitton
Clearing all the voices in my head ... an empty mind is a wonderful thing.
Deborah Mitton
I have a difficult time with writer's block .... I found that if I write a short story my writing will start to flow again.
Deborah Mitton
Thank you for asking Julie :o) I'm the middle child of seven - (two older sisters and one brother...three younger brothers). Growing up in the 50's and 60's before cable and the internet we were entertained by being read to. I knew and could recite 20st century poems before I was in grade four. History was my first love and I read anything I could find on European royalty / wars and the US civil war.
I noticed that there was little to read about Canadian History that wasn't boring.
So I took a chance and after retiring started to write about Canadian History (Saint John my home town mostly) and used my second love - Suspense - thrillers to make it interesting. My second novel - One for Sorrow will be before Canada's Confederation.
I have been doing a great deal of research .... did you know that Benedict Arnold lived in Saint John before traders kicked him out for not paying his bills.
I also love Dickens, Elizabeth Goudge and Stephen King...
Have you read my book?
I noticed that there was little to read about Canadian History that wasn't boring.
So I took a chance and after retiring started to write about Canadian History (Saint John my home town mostly) and used my second love - Suspense - thrillers to make it interesting. My second novel - One for Sorrow will be before Canada's Confederation.
I have been doing a great deal of research .... did you know that Benedict Arnold lived in Saint John before traders kicked him out for not paying his bills.
I also love Dickens, Elizabeth Goudge and Stephen King...
Have you read my book?
About Goodreads Q&A
Ask and answer questions about books!
You can pose questions to the Goodreads community with Reader Q&A, or ask your favorite author a question with Ask the Author.
See Featured Authors Answering Questions
Learn more