Award Winner at the Midwest Book
Festival and Nominated for a Clue Award in Suspense, DJ Adamson is the author
of the Lillian Dove Mystery series and the mystery/science fiction trilogy
Deviation. Author, instructor, she is also Vice President for the Central Coast
Sisters in Crime and Membership Director for Sisters in Crime, Los Angeles. She is an active member of Mystery Writers of America.
Her latest book is the
mystery/suspense, SUPPOSE.
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“What
did he want to know about me?”
“If you were still alive.”
Connivers, murder, and the
international shipment of drugs unites the local PDs and the Federal
Government, and drags Lillian into a hailstorm of manipulation and danger,
whereby she is given two choices: Join? Or die trying?
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Thank you for this interview!
Thank you.
I’d like to know more
about you as a person first. What do you
do when you’re not writing?
I live life as fully as possible, trying to stay in the
moment, taking it easy on myself, try not to be too demanding, and enjoy my
family and friends.
When did you start writing?
I published my first
poem when I was twelve. I have published
on and off in literary fiction since then.
I waited until this point in my life to tackle novels. P.S.
My mother said I came out of her womb holding a pen and pencil wanting
to record the moment.
As a published author, what would you say was the most
pivotal point of your writing life?
I guess I would have
to define pivotal point, first. I’m going to define it as the moment when I
embraced being a writer. I always knew I was, but saying it seemed like a fabrication. That ended when a I reader came up to me at a
conference and said: I just love Lillian
Dove. Not me. Not my work. She spoke of Lillian as if she was real.
Cool.
If you could go anywhere in the world to start writing your
next book, where would that be and why?
I have traveled a great deal. From Peru
to Europe to Turkey
to Texas. There is no where I’d rather write than in
the rooms I have created to do just that.
When I enter, I am ready.
If you had 4 hours of extra time today, what would you do?
Well, the house needs a good dusting. Windows washing. But, I still probably wouldn’t gravitate to
those with the extra hours. I might go
out with a friend of lunch. It’s always
a treat. Or go for a long walk to get
out of my head. I wouldn’t write. I do
that four to six hours a day, almost each and every day. Or read, I do that every night before going
to sleep. I have since I was a little
girl reading storybooks. Friends. There
is never enough time for them.
Where would you like to set a story that you haven’t done
yet?
Hard question. I want to set a series along the California
coastline and I have been working on it.
I would also like to return to Oregon,
where I was born, and do stories there.
For atmosphere only, the darkness of San Francisco
has always intrigued me more than the dark streets of L.A.
Back to your present book, Suppose, how did you publish it?
I Indie publish under Horatio Press. I like being my own boss, giving myself
deadlines. I had an executive position
for over twenty-five years. I can give up titles and labels. So far, I have enjoyed the process. My work has reviewed well. I’ve won some
awards, and I am making a little money.
What more could a traditional publisher do for me?? Tell me to sell
more, write more? I tell myself that.
In writing your book, did you travel anywhere for
research?
The Lillian Dove series is set in Iowa,
just outside of Iowa City. My family roots grow deep there. Since the
1850’s. I still have relatives that live
on some of the original acreage. I used to go back once a year to visit my
mother.
Why was writing Suppose
so important to you?
Other than it is the second book in my series? Lillian’s purpose in the series is to
re-identify herself in her life. Suppose is the next step in her
journey. The third book will be out in
2017.
Where do you get your best ideas and why do you think that
is?
I don’t get them, they come to me. And they always come when I don’t have a pen
or pencil, and dang if I can find a piece of paper. Ideas come to me when I hear dialog, or ask a
“what if” question.
Any final words?
In my more
competitive days I would have wanted to be a GOOD writer. Today, I want to write a good book. There is a difference for me. The first echoes more ego. I’ve had those days. The second is a reward I receive whenever a
reader tells me they liked one of my novels.
Thank you so much for having me.
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