Ask the Author: R.J. Minnick
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R.J. Minnick
Sorry I missed this when it first was asked. During the course of my work (years ago) in a campus security office, the office received an unsolicited mail inviting us to participate in what had the potential to be a nefarious scheme...we had no previous knowledge of the proposed scheme or the sender ....
This never went anywhere, luckily, but I always wondered what it had been about, and what it COULD HAVE BEEN about....
This never went anywhere, luckily, but I always wondered what it had been about, and what it COULD HAVE BEEN about....
R.J. Minnick
I learned my lesson at the time of my death, when I heard the extent of my sentence. It was to live out eternity reliving my days, with no way to change them or make my repentance.
R.J. Minnick
I think I'd go to the guest house run by Alison Kerby in EJ Copperman's Haunted Guest House series. I'd hang out with Alison and let her teach me some more house renovation tricks (and maybe share a few of my own). Then I'd bake for/with her daughter Melissa, and try to help ghosts Maxie and Paul with one of their mysteries. I feel at home in this world, and I'd love a chance to be right in it for a while.
R.J. Minnick
To be honest, I've had way more on my writing list than on my reading list. I have been reading some of the older Deborah Knott books by Margaret Maron, and I plan on reading Code Girls by Liza Mundy. For humor with a Southern edge I turned to Celia Rivenbark's Rude Bitches Make Me Tired, and for delight, humor, and fresh mystery-writing : anything by EJ Copperman.
R.J. Minnick
Sometimes I have to run to my bed, lie face down on it and enclose my eyes with my hands so that all I can see is a dim view of the bedcovers. I focus on what my imagination has been trying to tell me. Other times I go right to the next step, which is to sit myself down in the chair and write. Doesn't matter how awful it is. I write until things start to flow and improve. I'll discard the dreck later; the thing is to get things flowing again.
R.J. Minnick
The moment of creating where you know you got it right. Since I believe in God, I am convinced that in the process of creating, be it writing, woodworking, cooking, dance, any of the arts, gardening, or raising a child, when we are in that moment of creating, we are closer to understanding God's motivation than at any other time.
R.J. Minnick
Read. Write. Write some more. Take a walk, come back, and sit down and write. Join a critique group that has members you trust. Show them your work, and listen to what they say. Act on it IF it makes sense. Then write. Rewrite. Write some more. And submit. Although most of us write because we love it, some way or another, we all really want to share. We hope we'll be welcome, but we really do want to share. So, you'll have to submit your work. Oh, and write.
R.J. Minnick
Multiple projects plus some freelancing for magazines. The answer you're probably most interested in now is that I am working the third book in the Mackenzie Wilder/Classic Boat series, titled Flying Purple People Seater. The first draft is complete, and I'm working to complete revisions and polish this year.
R.J. Minnick
The simplest answer is I love it. I love word play, I love puzzles, and I love both creating and the creative process. The danger for me is that my legs might disappear from lack of use, because I could sit and write all day. Some days I do exactly that.
R.J. Minnick
I've loved antique boats for a long time, ever since my husband took me to the Antique Boat Show in his hometown of Clayton, New York. That show, by the way, celebrates its 50th Anniversary this year. Moving forward, we relocated to Nashville, TN (that's Music City, TN), and we had a sort of tangential relationship to several parts of the music industry there. It's kind of hard not to when you live there. Since Albany, NY has a big arena that hosts country music performers frequently, the idea began to brew to combine all this somehow. Since one of my continuing characters, Jason Fields, had been known for dabbling in country music, a plot began to unfold itself.
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