(Comment for a chance to be a book character.)
Welcome, Marilyn. Happy to have you visit.
Marilyn Meredith is the author of over thirty published novels, including the award winning Deputy Tempe Crabtree mystery series. She borrows a lot from where she lives in the Southern Sierra for the town of Bear Creek and the surrounding area, including the nearby Tule River Indian Reservation. She does like to remind everyone that she is writing fiction. Marilyn is a member of EPIC, three chapters of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, and on the board of the Public Safety Writers of America. Visit her at http://fictionforyou.com and follow her blog at http://marilynmeredith.blogspot.com/
Marilyn's latest in the award-winning series:
Blurb for Spirit Shapes: Ghost hunters stumble upon a murdered teen in a haunted house. Deputy Tempe Crabtree's investigation pulls her into a whirlwind of restless spirits, good and evil, intertwined with the past and the present, and demons and angels at war.
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And now a few thoughts from Marilyn:
Why Do We Do It?
Why do writers keep on writing? Of course I can’t answer
to every author, but I’ll give you my reasons.
First, I’ll give you the
reasons why someone might ask that question if your name isn’t one that people
recognize right off.
You spend hours sitting
at a computer writing—or sometimes just thinking. Writing is hard
work—sometimes even painful.
You spend hours sitting
at a computer doing promotion. Promotion is hard work and you never quite know
if the time you spent paid off.
You don’t have time to
go out to lunch with friends on a whim. In fact, you probably schedule your
social outings.
You don’t have time to
belong to social or service groups—or if you do, you miss a lot of meetings.
Sometimes your husband
and family members feel neglected because you spend so much time on your
writing.
You don’t have time to
watch TV all day, or do some of the chores you ought to be doing, because
writing is more important.
You don’t make much
money for all the work you do. (And if you’re not published yet, you haven’t
made a dime for all that work.)
Here is why I keep on
writing.
The main reason is
because I can’t stop. Writing is such a part of my life, I can’t imagine not
spending most days doing at least some writing.
How will I know what is
going to happen to Deputy Tempe Crabtree and her husband, Pastor Hutch, or the
men and women on the Rocky Bluff P.D. if I don’t write the next book?
Despite the lack of
monetary reward, there’s nothing better than having someone tell me how much
they liked my book.
I am writing for the
readers as much as I’m writing for me. Hopefully, they want to find out what is
happening with my characters too.
Maybe it’s not enough
for some folks, but those are the reasons I keep writing.
Contest:
The person who comments
on the most blogs on this blog tour will have the opportunity to have a
character named after him or her in the next Deputy Tempe Crabtree mystery.
Thank you, Marilyn for an excellent post.
P.S. Comment folks. It's fun to be a character in a mystery book.
