Welcome, Carol! How long have you been writing?
CAROL: Patti Jo, I started writing when I was in junior high school, but not seriously until after my son was born. Then I wrote an historical romantic suspense novel about the time my daughter was born in 1990. We were living in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England at the time. It took over 26 years and a lot of rejections and revisions before Winged Publications took a chance on me and published it in 2016. The title of that book is YORKSHIRE LASS. It's a stand-alone novel that takes place at the end of WWI England.
Where do you usually write?
CAROL: I have a craft room in my house that also houses my writing space.
Do you have a regular writing schedule, or do you grab writing time whenever you can?
CAROL: I try to take time each weekday to get in my writing, but it doesn't always happen. When it does, I start in the morning about 9 am and work until late afternoon when I stop to fix supper. Some days when I have errands to run (I try to save all my errands for one day) I don't get in as much writing. I grab the time I can get.
When you're not writing, what do you enjoy doing?
CAROL: I enjoy crocheting, coloring adult color books, sewing, machine embroidery and quilting as well as reading. However, I don't get to do many of these since I was published.
Do you have any pets?
CAROL: Yes, we have a black lab named Holly. She's 10 years old and when we had two German Shepherds, she was happy to be low girl on the totem pole. She was just happy to be with her buddies. Now that they have passed, she's alpha dog. By default, of course, but she doesn't care. She just loves being top girl now.
Anything special you'd like readers to know about you? 😊
CAROL: My husband and I love to go RVing, as does Holly. I enjoy doing research for my books and we combine the two occasionally when I'm ready to do research. We went to Cape Hatteras a few years ago to research for two books, A BEACON OF LOVE, prequel to OCEAN OF FEAR, FAITH IN THE PARKS, Book 3 and then for OCEAN OF FEAR too. It was the year hurricane Maria hit the coast of NC. We had just come from the NC mountains and had only vaguely heard about the hurricane. We had to sit an hour inland for four days while Maria struck the NC coast. When we finally got the all clear to head to the campground near Hatteras, we found huge road equipment putting the sand dunes back where they belonged before Maria relocated them onto the roads. We hit the ground running to do research. Much of our research time had been used up waiting inland. But God blessed with meeting
CATMOM: I agree, Carol. He's so GOOD! Thank you so much for chatting with me, and I encourage readers to look for Carol's books!
