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AUTHOR INTERVIEW
By: Susanne Rich
Where do you live and how does it influence your writing?
Florida. For me, it’s not so much the place I live—it’s more the places I write about. I have to visit all the places in my stories. I need to feel, taste, see, touch, and understand their vibe in order to put it on paper. I did escape Florida once and made my way to North Carolina for fourteen years, which was where my writing had been born, January 28, 1990, at 7:04 am. I’m back in Florida, and I do like the pace of the little fishing town I live in. I’m calm where there is water and sunsets.
When did you first become passionate about writing? What attracted you to it?
I think it’s best to start from the beginning. My grandmother managed a local bookstore and office supply store in Sarasota. I was lucky enough to spend weekdays after school there, and she would have one of the employees read to me. Before long, I was picking the books and learning how to read at a very young age. As you can imagine, I turned into a great storyteller, making up all kinds of adventurous tales, but it wasn’t until that morning in 1990 that stories hit paper. I was lying in bed, looking up at the ceiling, counting the little holes in the tiles—forty-two, by the way—and my mind traveled through one of those holes and into the attic, where a city was born with outdoor creatures and a squirrel from the city who hopped on a truck delivering nuts to the next town. I began with children’s stories like that, then moved into thrillers. But I know the real question is when did I become passionate. My answer is, since I could turn a page.
What inspires you to write?
What doesn’t? The world today is so on all the time, but when you can make a person smile at the words on a page… Now, that’s something. Writing characters that help others in some way, helping out the underdog, all of that seems to be my thing.
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