#1: I asked my 82 year-old-mother if she
was a virgin when she met my father.
I’ve never been hesitate in
asking intriguing questions. Besides,
I’d heard my mother had a pretty serious boyfriend before my father (who she
married at 18). Hadn’t she been shaking
her naughty finger at me all my teenage-hood warning “Be a good girl.”
#2: I’ve said I was a great many things in
life before I became those things in life. I told everyone I was a journalist
before getting a job at a small Oregon newspaper. I told everyone I was a
writer before believing I was one.
There’s a saying, “Act as If.” Way
before I’d heard the saying, I was already practicing, “Tell as If.”
#3. My
second grade teacher, Mrs. Whitaker, said I was such a good liar, I should be a
writer.
I remember telling such a whopper in my
second grade class’s show-an-tell that it took more than a month to get away
from the lie. Dang Mrs. Whitaker, every show-an-tell she’d call my name and say…
“Tell us more about the….”
#4. Most of my characters come from my
real life. Yes, Dahlia is one of those
characters!
#5. None
of my villains come from my real life. Thank goodness!
#6. While most of my work is set in Iowa,
and my family roots have grown deep there since 1865, I would never want to
live permanently in Iowa. Vacations are good enough for me. Although, the
people I meet there are walking characters good enough to print.
#7. I met and became friends with Anne
Perry, June 2015.
We aren’t BF’s or anything, but
we had great conversations for about a week and I got to know a good deal about
her, instead of her work.
#8. I tell everyone I hate to clean the
house, but actually, cleaning the house and gardening takes me out of my head
and grounds me back into reality.
#9. The love of my life is still the love
of my life.
Guess who????
10. I’ve written now for so many years
that when I wake in the morning, I never have to decide which writing project
to work on. The protagonist is the one who wakes me up.
Diane Adamson's Bio:
Published in poetry, short story, and
literary criticism, D. J. Adamson won awards for her YA work from SCBWI before publishing in 2014
her first mystery novel ADMIT TO MAYHEM, first in the Lillian Dove Mystery series.
Outré, a mystery-sci-fi novel, came out early in 2015. Outré received a 2015 Midwest Book Festival
Award. She is also the editor for Le
Coeur de l’Artiste, an online newsletter
that interviews authors and reviews their work.
D. J. is Vice President
for the Central Coast Sisters in Crime and Membership Director for Sisters in Crime, Los
Angeles.
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