Why did I write The Swirling Red Mist: A Tale of Murder?

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I was recovering from chemotherapy after a lost a breast to cancer when my dear friend Joni (aka Joan Leslie Woodruff) sent me a book she wrote for Christmas that year. "Mind Games" changed my life as it used writing as therapy. I decided I wanted to write a book.

My first idea was that I would write a fantasy perfect life for myself where I had everything I wanted and nothing bad happened. But, that was soon as boring to me as it would have been to any reader so I Googled 'how to write a book' and my story changed to a thriller. After 5 years, finished and published, it was an adventure like no other.

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