Writing What you know
I keep getting asked if what I write is real life. I repeat-I’m not that interesting, but I have a heck of an imagination. Let’s talk Eastern Spice (Cynnamon Foster). Of course, I am not a spy. I am a writer. I’m certainly not a spy that goes undercover in swingers clubs, but I did write about real places I have been in the book. In fact, India and Japan are two of my favorites. I always knew my characters would end up in India. I knew that before I had ever been or put one word on the page. I was intrigued by a story that my husband found in the paper about a woman found dead in a hotel pool where he was staying in India. In the movie in my mind, of course it was a conspiracy. I cooked up a story and started writing. Then I visited. I got to drive through the countryside and exchange wedding vows at the Taj Mahal, and had to go back and re-write what I had written. I wanted the details to be as real as possible, so m6 characters see what I saw with the same wonder that I di