Mean Characters Or Reality?

Last week I wrote about the fictional women mentors I created for my protagonist in The Awakening Series. Writing about those women was pretty easy because I had a strong picture of each of them as I began the first book. More challenging for me was the part of Book 1 that was more grounded in real life. Specifically, how Tara’s friends, boyfriend, and family would react to her news that she was pregnant, but had never had sex and didn’t know how it had happened. Being true to those...
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Women Mentors, Aging, And The Awakening Series

When I graduated law school in 2000 (this relates to fiction, I promise), law school classes had only recently reached the point where roughly half the students were women and half men. For a lot of reasons, though, in actual practice men dominated certain areas.  This was true in my area of practice, civil litigation. I’d been a lawyer for about a year when I had a case where the young lawyer on the other side also was a woman. When we went to court, often we were the only two wome...
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Why Write a Thriller Series About A Potential Female Messiah?

People often ask me why, as a non-believer, I'm writing a thriller series that revolves around religion-related concepts. (The Awakening series follows a young woman whose virgin pregnancy might bring the world a female messiah or trigger Armageddon.) First, completely aside from religion, I’ve always been intrigued by world changing or world ending stories. A great example of this type of story is my favorite movie, The Terminator.The Awakening (Book 1) and The Unbelievers (Book 2).Second, the ...
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