Guest author - Gay Kinman

[charlie_cochrane]

I "met" Gay through the Undeath and the Detective anthology. (I'm so lucky - I get to meet so many lovely peeps.)



So, Gay, what inspired you to start writing?

My mother was a writer and she made it seem like an accessible profession. Plus it’s what I love to do!

Do you have another job (paid or otherwise) apart from being an author? If so, how do you juggle your time?

I worked as a librarian, but now am a full-time writer, and yes, it was hard to fit in writing.

What does it feel like watching your first book fledge and leave the nest?

That was a while ago, but the first book left the nest three times as publishers went out of business. You’re published!--no, you’re not!!

Are you character or plot driven? What do you do if one of your characters starts developing at a tangent?

Don’t see how a writer can separate the two--you can’t have one without the other. Characters always do something unexpected, so I just follow to see where the story is going. It’s never been a dead end yet.

If you were in a tight corner and had to rely on one of your characters to save you, which would it be and why?

I would trust all of my major characters to come up with the right escape plan.

If you had no constraints of time and a guarantee of publication, what book would you write?

I have both of those right now, so can work on a few things at the same time. The mystery I’ve revising presently is set in Hollywood in 1942 featuring one of my series characters LAPD Officer Agnes Graham and a private detective investigating the crooked union leaders for the studio workers, entitled A Man of Honor.

Is there a classic book you started and simply couldn't finish?

Ulysses by James Joyce.

What’s your favorite gay romance/other genre book? And why?

A lot of things come to mind to answer this question. My name is Gay, don’t read romances much, except for romantic suspense, but I am reading the biography of May Sarton—definitely a gay romance or rather romances.

What's your next project?

My projects, besides A Man of Honor, is revising some short stories for my next collection entitled Death in…., which will include stories around the globe—Amsterdam, Belgium, London, etc. Some of the stories are already on Kindle Shorts. Next on Kindle and in print will be a collection of my ten-minute plays that have been produced. After that I want to get back to a mystery novel I wrote a while ago about a judge and revise that.

Comments

[rapidess.livejournal.com]

Thank you for sharing :)

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

My pleasure.

[aglarien1.livejournal.com]

Oh, she's out here! I love the Huntington Library - and the house and all the gardens. One of our Southern California treasures. If you ever get out here, it's a must see.

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

Oh, you will laugh. I'd assumed it was our Huntingdon. It sounds lovely.

[aglarien1.livejournal.com]

No, definitely ours. I recognized the building on the cover. Built by the railroad magnet, Henry Huntington. I saw the Guttenberg Bible they have there once. Their rare books and documents are available to scholars and researchers, and the collection is world famous. Aside from the library, the house and gardens are spectacular, and the art collection is out of this world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntington_Library

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

I want to get in a TARDIS right now and go there! Thank you for the link.

BTW Did you see The Blue Boy when you visited?

[aglarien1.livejournal.com]

Yes, indeed. I've seen both Blue Boy and Pinkie several times. they're pretty much on permanent exhibit there. did you see the pictures of some of the gardens below the article? I get a kick out of trying to ring that bell in the Japanese Garden. It's actually quite hard since you have to swing a long pole into the side of it and it takes quite a bit of force.

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

I think that would risk me clonking myself on the bonce!