How long have you been writing? Officially, eight years
Who are the authors who most influenced your work? Roberta Webb, Watch Nee, Corrie TenBoom and multitudes of writers of theology, Hebrew, Greek and ancient history
If you could visit one place to research a book, where would it be? Israel — The Holy Land
How did you start writing books? It was a fluke. We use to tell our friends and grandchildren stories about things we experienced growing up and went through on our life journey. One of the stories was about a gas station wewe owned when we were first married. A lot of strange things happened there, really weird! We decided to sell and leave it got so weird. I still call it the Twilight Zone.
So, that’s how it started … and 27 books later, we are still going strong. Then we got into our ancestry. Oakley’s ancestors are so interesting we had to write about them. We haven’t even been able to get to mine yet.
What do you two write? We write about almost all genres except romance. Judith Krantz pretty well covered that and Amazon is inundated with Highlander series so I don’t think I can add anything special to that other than I do like a man in a kilt, but then I do have Scottish ancestry. My genre is theology and I am working on several books that have to do with biblical studies. I also have a recipe book coming out soon.
Can you tell us more about your life and where you like writing? Oakley and I met in high school in the library. We write together in our recliners in our living room and in the indoor/outdoor room we had built for our cat, called the “Catio,” so he (the cat) is still able to be inside and experience the outside without getting hurt by the nighttime critters. His name is Marvin.
I plan to write a book about Marvin and his interesting life as a cat. His name came from “Starvin Marvin to have his own “catchelor pad” and “catio.” He is now “Cool Cat Marvin,” and everyone on the street asks about how he’s doing nowadays.
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