Ella asked Genevieve Graham:

Hello! I loved Tides of Honour so much and was pleasantly surprised to read that you have a music degree. I'm currently studying flute performance at in Nova Scotia, and I would love to be able to achieve a career in performance but I recognize the importance of having other skills. Could you talk a little bit about how writing fit in with being a musician, whether it was something on the side or you always wanted to?

Genevieve Graham Thank you, Ella! I have a soft spot for Danny Baker. I'm so glad you enjoyed the story! Congratulations on your music studies. Getting my Bach of Music in Performance was a true labour of love, but I do remember the labour as well as the love! I can't tell you how it all fits together, though. I left music for a couple of reasons decades before I became a writer, and I didn't fall into this amazing career until I was in my forties. So I can't tell you how to do both simultaneously, but I can tell you that the same passion/instinct/rush of emotions or whatever you experience during a certain moment of a symphony or sonata is the same one I feel when I sink into a moving part of my stories. It's definitely linked. Trust your gut for both is my best suggestion.

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