I met Sheila in 2010 at The Lakeside Writing Studio in Chicago. She is an intelligent and caring writer who crafts beautiuflly descriptive sentences that become powerful and emotional stories of struggle, hope, and inspiration. Learn more about Sheila and her writing by visiting her website.
My Tag Questions/Answers:
What is the working title
of the book?
Artists.
Where did the idea come
from for the book?
I typically wait until a
bunch of related thoughts, ideas, and questions reach a level where I don't
want to deal with them anymore and then start writing.
What genre does your book
fall under?
Absurdist/surrealistic
fiction.
What actors would you
choose to play the part of your characters in a movie rendition?
I would cast Diego Luna as
the lead and Scarlett Johansson and Tom Hardy as the supporting cast.
What is the one sentence
synopsis of your book?
Through a series of
unfortunate events a common man is transformed into an artist.
How long did it take you to
write the first draft of the manuscript?
Still working on the first
draft, but it will probably take about a year to complete.
Who or what inspired you to
write this book?
Society and various people
in my life.
What else about your book
might pique the reader’s interest?
If you have an interest in
books that explore various aspects of society, relationships, art, work, and
what it means to be human in a way that's not too serious and borderline soap opera like then your interest might
be piqued.
Will your book be
self-published or represented by an agency?
Probably self-published
because my last book was denied representation by pretty much every agent I
could think of.
My tagged writers for next
week are:
TBD