#BlogTour, #BookReview, #AuthorInterview and #Giveaway–> Three Rules by Marie Drake
She struggles with the fact she never told anyone what happened to her, and that the grave they are mourning over is empty. She’d find it a lot easier to move on and believe in the future if he were in the box, ready to be covered with dirt. She fears the last thread of her sanity has snapped when she sees Lucas everywhere she turns, and can’t escape a recurring nightmare.
I received a copy of the book from the author and Red Bird Publicity and I am very thankful to them. The above review is my honest and unbiased opinion and in no way influenced.
Interview with Marie Drake:
Hello Book Lovers,
their four wonderful sons in a small town near Lake Ontario. They take
advantage of what others deem a vacation spot all year long. Camping and hiking
are some of their favorite family activities. They also enjoy volunteering at
the local animal shelter together, and recently rescued a Jack Russell/Corgi
mix who made their family complete.
She is a woman of many interests – and maybe talents – but will be quick to tell you that her most important and proudest accomplishment is the part she played in the lives of children. She provided daycare for over ten years, and she and her husband fostered more than fifteen children over a five year period.
While juggling all her boys’ sporting events, academic, musical, and other extracurricular activities, and running a small home based business designing crochet afghan patterns, Marie tries to squeeze in some time for writing each day.
to love writing.
When the teacher handed it back to me, she said, “Very well done,” and
discussed my story with me. I was hooked.
you done while working to become an author?
ran a home daycare for over ten years after I got married. My husband and I became
foster parents because of an emergency within my own family, and once it was
resolved we decided to continue to foster other children. We fostered fifteen
children over a five year period. More often than not we were raising eight
children at a time. Currently, I have a small home based online business. I
design and sell crochet afghan patterns on my website.
book.
characters, and so forth. I didn’t have the time to actually put any of it on
paper, however, until my kids grew a little older. The book takes place in a
small, fictional town. It’s on a lake, like my own hometown. It isn’t anything
too specific because it is centered on the main character’s feelings and state
of mind more than the location. It is written from Hope’s perspective, the main
character. She suffered years of abuse and never told anyone about it for fear
that no one would believe her, and later that there would be repercussions
within her nuclear family causing her mother and step father pain. She buried
all the pain and anger inside, year after year. When her former abuser is
pronounced dead in a mysterious boating accident but they don’t recover the
body, it magnifies her feelings of paranoia and fear. She has recurring
nightmares, and she thinks she sees him, feels him following her.
research did you do for the book?
didn’t have to stretch my imagination very far on that. I drew on my own
personal life experiences when describing the feelings and emotions of the main
character. I survived some things in my childhood that scarred and changed who
I was forever. It affected my outlook on life, on the world, and affected my
decisions and the way I lived until I was nearly thirty years old. I often
wonder how different I would be if they never happened. I have also been a care
giver for children who had suffered abuse, which I can’t go into detail about
for privacy reasons.
working day like for you? When and where do you write?
and our four boys are getting ready for school. They are all out of the house
by around 6:20, and I sit down with my coffee and write for a couple of hours
before I have to start the regular day
—answering emails and doing customer service for my online
business, cooking, cleaning, laundry,
taking care of our dog, Lady Jade. I sit at my desk in my office and write,
usually in my pajamas, always with a cup of coffee. I find that is the best
time for me. I have tried going back in the afternoons to write a little, but I
think my best ideas come early in the morning.
part of writing for you?
Writing it is thrilling, exciting; I am passionate about it. It wasn’t until
recently my husband convinced me I should let other people read it. To me, it
is very personal. It is a piece of me, and when others read it, it doesn’t
belong to just me anymore. Then it becomes a book, material for random people
to pick over, piece apart, and find fault. Accepting criticism is a difficult
task, but it is a necessity. I try to do so graciously, and use it constructively.
about being an author?
others read what I wrote, when some one enjoys reading it — when somebody else
shares the excitement I felt writing the book while they are reading it.
8. What advice would you give writers?
it can’t stop you if you keep moving toward your goals, even if it is an inch
at a time. It can be challenging, but follow your dreams.
get asked the most, and how do you answer that question?
spending all this time writing a book?” My answer is yes, to me it was worth
every moment I spent at the keyboard. I know they are most often speaking
financially. That is not how I measure my success. I feel accomplished and
proud of finishing something that I set out to do. I feel the most reward when
some one enjoys what I wrote.
working on now?
have started writing my next novel, tentatively called Don’t Cry For Me. It is another fiction novel that I hope to
release in 2014.
All the best for your future. 🙂
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