After so many years after CWE, did you foresee ever writing about Winter again?
Without a doubt. All of my novels came from Winter, so to speak. The Coldest Winter Ever set the stage for A Deeper Love Inside, the novel about Winter’s younger sister Porsche Santiaga and how she battles through her young life after being “kidnapped” by child services following the arrest of her mother and the downfall of her father’s empire. The three Midnight novels that I have written and published, all came from Winter in the sense that Midnight was the man who Winter loved and hunted and tried to seduce from thirteen years young to her eighteen years young arrest and incarceration. Millions of readers loved Winter. Winter loved Midnight. So, readers loved Midnight.
What was the hardest part of completing Life After Death?
There was absolutely nothing difficult about completing the writing of Life After Death. I know Winter Santiaga. She is alive in my mind and soul. The words she speaks and her manner of being and her style flows right out of my soul effortlessly. I am grateful to have her as the root of my literary universe.
What did you like best about writing Life After Death?
I think this new novel is hot to death! No pun intended. The characters are spellbinding, the world is dark and dangerously detailed, and amazingly beautiful at the same time. The dialogue is completely original, born in my imagination and no one else’s. The storytelling is fresh and you won’t read anything like it, anywhere. The most action-orientated, street-loving reader will love it if they can stay still and read it. The most intellectual readers will be dazzled as they try to decode it. Anyone who has not read Life After Death yet hasn’t read it out of fear, jealousy or hearsay from someone else who also hasn’t read it.
A great book has what?
Soul.
