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STARLETTE UNIVERSE features kid and tween girl and pre-teen girl humor, poetry and verse, puns, cartoon features and comic strips, offering fun and frolic — and sage — advice

Q.  What genre do you like to write?
A.  Eva from Eville is written in a new ‘diction of fiction’ – which I call ‘piction’.

Q.  If you were to branch out from your current genre, which one would you explore?
A. 'Piction’ is what I’m fond of - and I'll always write in that genre.

Q.  How long have you been writing?  What prompted you to start writing?
A.  I gave kids'-book writing a go – when God gave me a wake-up call many years ago.

Q.  What inspires you to write?
A.  It sometimes seems – like I write my dreams. But I also write on life lessons learned – so they can be remembered and discerned.

Q.  When a story idea pops into your head, how long does it typically take to write it?
A.  The entire outline for the Starlette tale – will take about 20 books to tell.

Q.  What is the most difficult part of the writing process?  The easiest?
A.  The hardest:  The timing – of the rhyming.
The easiest: Making the last book edit – and knowing it’s time to quit.

Q.  Of all your characters, whom do you most relate to?
A. Skylar – by far.

Q.  Is there one of your characters that you did not like when you started writing about her, but found yourself liking by the end of the story.
A.  I feel sad for Eva and would be glad – if she turned away from being bad.

Q.  What do you hope to accomplish through your books?
A.  I hope youth choose positive life-styles – when they face temptations, strife and trials.

Q.  What is the take-away from your books?
A.  I want teens to memorize and rehearse - how to deal with problems by reciting verse.

Q.  Tell us about your books?  Where can people find them?
A.  Good and evil are the global themes – as are friendship and self-esteem.
Both the Starlette Universe and Lil Lilly series - can be found with Amazon queries.

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