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How did you come up with the
concept for the Diamond Life Series?
Like so many novels, this series began as a short story for a fiction writing
class that was actually quite autobiographical in nature. I was writing about an
altercation that I was having with my boyfriend on the night of my prom. While
my boyfriend from high school wasn’t exactly a thug, he had a lot of thuggish
tendencies, and along with that came a mildly abusive demeanor. But I was no
Lacey. Being such a strong personality myself, my boyfriend and I used to butt
heads like to warring rams. Neither he, nor I was willing to yield on anything.
Needless to say, that relationship didn’t last. But since I was supposed to be
writing fiction, I asked the question, “What If?”
Why is this book called The Way Through?
Well it actually comes from this story that a writing professor told me, when I
began to have extreme psychological disturbances because of this new type of
writing technique that he had taught me. I’m not going to tell you the story;
you’ll have to read the book to get that. But, I will say this; the story
involves a Tibetan monk! Anyway, the way through is basically about how people
resolve and overcome life’s most difficult obstacles. And even though I am using
my own personal story, we all keep running into the same obstacles, in different
forms. Almost all of life’s obstacles can be traced back to a fear of some kind.
We all have to face those fears. Doing that is the first step to finding your
way through.
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