Dawn, thank you for kindly agreeing to undertake this interview. Let's get ourselves comfortable as we settle down in our virtual café in our comfy chairs. Now I'll order.
What are we drinking? Coffee? Tea? Or a glass of wine?? Oh and are we having cake? If so, which cake is your favourite?- Is there a memory attached to it that you would like to share?
Reply: Hi Kimberley. It's a real honour to be part of this interview. Thank you for inviting me. I think I'd like chamomile tea and as a complete mismatch, I'd love some ice cream cake. A little hot and cold to create some equilibrium here! Ice cream cakes are nostalgic to me. I wish I could have a piece every night but they can be so messy!
What is it with ice cream cake???? So many people have said that to me, it's crazy!!! I've never had it. Is it what we call Baked Alaska in the UK? You put a large dome shape of ice cream on a baking dish and cover it in a fresh meringue mixture and it goes in the over for around 8 minutes and you have to eat it straight away! If not the same – tell me what it is and put me out of my misery.
No Ice Cream Cake is exactly what it is – ice cream, made into a cake.
We don't have a cake that exists quite like that in the UK.
What inspired you to write I am in love with an Invisible Man and did the story evolve as you wrote it? Did you lead the characters or did they lead you?
Reply: I am in Love with an Invisible Man aka IAILWAIM for short, was inspired by my life circumstance. My husband is always away working and at times, I was very lonely. I tell him he's always time traveling. *chuckles* So one day, this story just came to my head and it became an obsession for the next four or so months.
Being that I haven't written a creative piece of work in ten years (I'm an accountant by trade) it was initially difficult for me to work with my characters. In business school, you're limited to writing ten words per sentence and everything has to be in bullet points, so it was also difficult for me to write long sentences. Over time though, I listened and the characters lead me down the written road :)
I think something happens with a thought, that makes us all start writing and everyone's story is fascinatingly different.
I am in love with an Invisible Man - ended very emotionally with the reader wanting to know where the characters would go from here. The main character was very conflicted and innocent of the ways of the world –with two men in love with the main character– who she in turn loved each of them in different ways. We felt her pain and her anguish. When can we expect to hear more?
Reply: IAILWAIM is a love triangle story, and some people loath reading love triangles. I, on the hand, have always been fascinated by them (when they are written well). Love itself is already tough to define, but when you complicate it with a triangle, more layers of intricate complexity can be developed in plot and characters. In my case, I've got a woman, a man, and an Invisible Man. You can only imagine how complicated that got.
The ending was very conflicting with emotions. I never
planned for that to happen, but this story has taken such a toll of
me---emotionally and mentally. It consumed my every thought and
action. I was a woman obsessed.
When I stepped back one day, I just realized that this controversial
love triangle with a corporeal and invisible man is a far more
challenging experience than I had ever planned for. I realize that I
needed a break from the story.
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