AYN:
I write paranormal mysteries which feature two sweet little old ladies in their 80s whose passion is solving old unsolved murders. Because of their age, they have “recruited” one of the ladies’ nieces to do the necessary leg work of going out to the scenes of the crimes to search for overlooked clues and to get a feel for the crime itself. Because the victims of the murders lost their lives so unexpectedly, their spirits often linger at the place of their untimely demise. Consequently, ghosts play a big part.
SUITE:
When did you first start writing? First start publishing? (short stories, books, etc.)
AYN: I’ve been writing all my life, mainly because I never wanted to be anything other than a published writer. I wrote my first novel, a melodrama, when I was 10. I have no idea what happened to it, but I do remember it was several hundred hand-written pages. Throughout high school, I took journalism courses, mainly because I didn’t want to be a “poor starving writer.” I figured that as a reporter, I could write and get paid for it immediately. But I often got in trouble, because my columns were so popular the school paper’s budget invariably went over. During my 20’s, I “practiced” so to speak, writing what I really wanted, novels. Even after I got married I continued to “practice.” Then, when our daughter was born, that stopped, until she was in her teens, then I started writing short stories and articles and getting them published. That was in the middle 1980s. In 1999, I “discovered” computers, and decided the best way to get the novels I was concurrently writing along with my short stories and articles, was the fairly new venue called E-books. In 2000, I sent off a query to one Internet publisher of E-books and it was published that same year. That was the beginning.
SUITE: Why do you write?
AYN: I write for the same reason I breathe. I have to write. I don’t feel alive when I’m not writing.
SUITE: Do you have a day job?
AYN: I’ve had so many day jobs, I’ve lost count. I’ve worked as a secretary, clerk, receptionist, telex operator, you name it; I’ve done it. After I got fired from all the above, I finally discovered temporary agencies, and worked for them for two years. Currently, my day job is typing things for people at home, using the computer, and also teaching (intermittently) creative
