Can you tell us a little bit about your writing journey? So how did your early experiences shape you for what you are writing today? Where do you draw your inspirations from?

I would say I fell in love with poetry back in the 80s when I first heard, like, Whitesnake.

They were my favorite 80s band.

And then when you actually, that was a time when you had CDs, the lyrics would be inside the CD.

And then I started reading it to myself.

I realized, wait a minute, this is a poem.

This is a beautifully written poem.

Tell us about how your musical journey started, where things are at now, but tell us about how your musical journey started.

books that are available on amazon across all your books where do your ideas most commonly begin is it a character's voice philosophical question on image or something else entirely

Well, I work from a basis of the unrepresented feminine in like the epics, because when I had my daughter in 2010, I started looking around for books that I could get for her because I enjoyed the classics like Beowulf, you know, the Odyssey.

And of course, every parent wants to enroll their children in the stuff they enroll that leads exposure to it.

But then I realized.

Why would a young girl want to read this? Where's the feminine represented? I mean, there are a lot of people that will argue with me like, yeah, I mean, there was Helena Troi in the Odyssey, but she just had a little bit prior.

You know, we need to know more about her.

There was the sirens, you know, but there again, they were feminine, but they also deal demons in a way.

So how do you locate? How did you or how do you locate? or cultivate a distinct voice for a new project? Is it intuitive process or deliberately construction?

Why do you think that style of storytelling is needed much today?

Well, there's a little thing called craftsmanship that I think is lost today.

If you look at some of the earlier poets, and let's take Shakespeare, for instance.

Who writes like that anymore? But how many times do you have to have it explained to you? If you look at some of the epics, they're beautifully written.

Not just what they're saying, the story, but how it's written.

You look at the craftsmanship, the word placement, which word was used.

That sort of thing needs to be brought back.

So I was asking, what kind of impacts do you want to leave behind for people who appreciate your work, appreciate your music, and of course, your daughter?

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you think you were first choice? To be honest with you, no.

But I'll tell you how it worked.

Yeah.

I knew the director.

Okay.

Peter Chelson.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

And also, he was in charge of giving out discretionary grants.

So it was his decision whether I got this grant or not.

So I went in and into his office.

It was lined with shelves and pamphlets.

And he said, oh, you want to go to drama school, do you? I said, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, right.

work then.