Although 2024 is ending we all keep reading and enjoying mystery books. we may not have anything new from this writer and no updates from the family about republishing the books anytime in the future but we hope you and yours will have a wonderful, happy and healthy winter holiday season. For all those located in the northern states – STAY WORK UP THERE Y’ALL! (from a Florida Fan)
Also, all through the year I have been researching through all newspapers and websites for new material to share with SWP’s fellow fans out there. For this time of giving I thought I would add an excerpt I found from CNN doing an interview with our favorite author May 30, 2000 – ENJOY!:
Chat Moderator: Welcome to CNN Book Chat, Sandra West Prowell.
Sandra West Prowell: I would like to say hello. It is another plus for cyberspace! It gives authors a chance to meet the people who read the books and I am appreciative of that!
Chat Moderator: Please tell us about your latest book, “When Wallflowers Die.”
Sandra West Prowell: First, I need to address the protagonist who is a private investigator, half Irish Catholic and half Jewish, who investigates crime with an ‘attitude.’
This book is based on solving a murder that is 25-years old, and the questionable justice that comes out of Phoebe’s investigating the crime.
Chat Moderator: Is Phoebe based on any real-life person, or how did you create her?
Sandra West Prowell: I dreamt her . . . literally. I tried writing a romance and found out they were very hard to do. I have a lot of respect for the romance writers out there.
I was deciding to write what my interests were, in the criminology field, and I went to bed one night and dreamt about this very feisty, redheaded, short, private investigator who named herself! And as crazy as all this sounds, I really did dream her.
Question from Diana: Hello, I would like to know what are Ms. West Prowell’s favorite things in life?
Sandra West Prowell: Oh boy! My favorite thing is writing. I love to have the muse come to visit. My second favorite thing is Kombucha, which is a fermented tea — non-alcoholic — and I also have a friend who is getting into soap making, that is fun. And I would probably rather be fishing than doing anything!
Question from Kldee: Sandra, have you ever had writer’s block, and how did you get over it?
Sandra West Prowell: Oh Lord! I don’t believe in writer s block per se. I do believe that when you are writing a book, if you are not listening to the voices that tell you how to write that book, you will shut down.
If you hit an area in your work where you have writer s block, and you shut down, it is best to go back over everything you have written and see what you are doing wrong to see if you are forcing an issue that should not be forced.
An example of this is when I tried to kill off a certain character that refused to be killed off. As soon as I decided that character was integral to the story, everything started flowing again.
Question from NotBot: Ms. Prowell, what do you think about the new electronic book technology?
Sandra West Prowell: I am not OK with it. I don’t think anything will ever replace walking into a library, or a bookstore, and picking up that book that has gone thru the process of being written, being sold, being edited, and ending up in the book stores. I don’t think anything should ever interfere with that experience.
Chat Moderator: How did you come to be so interested in writing mysteries? Did you always enjoy reading mysteries?
Sandra West Prowell: I grew up on gothic mysteries. Victoria Holt, Mary Stuart, all the old ones, plus God help us, all the Nancy Drew books. But I preferred the Hardy boys because they had more fun.
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