Welcome Lily to In A Dream Beyond! Prepare
yourself for an
As a first time visitor, I must ask: When did
you start writing and why?
I started writing way back in high school. After I graduated I took an adult enrichment
writing class. I didn’t write anything
of any significance again until I found the internet in 1997. I am a Star Trek fan and enjoyed reading
fanzines, but it wasn’t until I got
online that I discovered other fans. I
was also interested in “Kung Fu: The Legend Continues” show and got into the fandom and was
encouraged by another writer to start writing fan fiction and that is where it
all began for me. Then I got into
Brokeback Mountain and my interest in gay romance was born.
What’s your usual writing process like? I tend to get inspired by everyday
events, sometimes news events. I will weave my own life experiences into my
stories.
What’s your favorite part of being an author?
Least? My favorite part is having a
story flow and getting feedback from the readers. My least favorite: editing. I know it’s a necessary process but one I do
not like.
You normally write m/m romance, why did you decide to
focus on this niche? Are you open to trying new genres?
My interest in m/m romance was sparked by
Brokeback Mountain. I just couldn’t
leave how that movie ended alone and decided to fix it (as Ennis in the movie
said “If you can’t fix it, you gotta stand it”
Well fortunately for us fans many of us couldn’t stand it so we fixed it
with countless fan fiction that were well written. I have my own story too)
Where does your inspiration come from? Many of my story ideas come from my own life
experiences or from the news.
Out of all your published work until this
moment, which one is your favorite. Why?
I liked “Love on the East End” I’d visited the east end of Long Island, I’m
originally from Long Island (though from the western end of it in Nassau
County) and took the Long Island Rail
Road tour of the wineries and decided to incorporate it into the story. I also dealt with a very difficult
topic, teen suicide. It was in the news at the time I was writing
the story and decided to address the issue in my book.
October Spookiness
A book
recommendation for October “Amityville
Horror” I regret not visiting the house
the events took place in when I lived on Long Island.
Favorite
scary film Sixth Sense (I am not
into horror movies)
*If you celebrate
Halloween*
What
are you planning to dress up as this year? or If you could dress up as
something on Halloween, it’d be… ?
Last year I dressed up as a cat.
This year I might be a skeleton.
I love Halloween.
Favorite
thing about autumn The cooler weather
and changing of the leaves.
Share a
scary anecdote with us I’m going to
admit up front that I DO believe in the afterlife and ghosts. I was staying with a friend in New
Hampshire and I had been told I might hear strange noises. She told me that there was a spirit named
George in the house. I didn’t think
anymore about it. Everyone had gone to
bed and I was sleeping in the living room on the couch. I started to hear noises above me. At first I thought it might be snow falling
off the roof, it was winter time, she had a tin roof and during the day you’d
hear the snow sliding off the roof when the sun beat down on it. Well the temps were too cold for that to
happen. It sounded like someone was
sliding something across the floor in the attic. I sat there, in the dark, staring up at the
ceiling listening to this noise. My
heart was beating in my chest, after a while it stopped. I told my friend about it and she said it
was probably George. Other stuff that
happened while I was up there, I had a
piece of jewelry I had in a drawer in a desk in the living room. I knew I had put it in the drawer the night
before and when I woke up it was sitting on top of the desk. No one had been up during the night. I wondered how it got there.
George?
Keep in touch with Lily at: http://lilysawyerbooks.
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