Where do you get your ideas for writing?

Ideas are everywhere—in the news, from overheard snippets of conversation, observing people, listening to songs. I never have trouble finding ideas. My trouble is staying focused on one story until I complete it.

When did you start writing?

I can’t remember a time I didn’t write. For years I taught creative writing. I wrote with my students. Former students published. I had published poems, stories, articles, but it wasn’t’ enough. I quit my day job to pursue a dream. I write for magazines, I have published children’s books under the name Judi Brett and in the fall, my first novel will be released.

How often do you write and where do you write?

I write daily usually in the morning. But I write wherever, whenever I can. I carry pens, notebooks, my neo with me so if I am waiting in a doctor’s office, waiting in line any place, I can jot down ideas, continue with a story.

Where do you get your ideas for your passionate scenes? Are they difficult to write?

This question always prompts a smile. I have a passionate muse who inspires all my sensual scenes. Of course, they are fun to write. Passion and sensuality are wonderful parts of life!

What advice do you give to beginning writers?

Believe in yourself and write, write, write. Follow your dream.
Talk with other writers. I belong to New Jersey Romance Writers and I have developed some incomparable friendships. Other writers have been supportive, helpful and encouraging.

Where did you get the idea for Stranger to Love?

While on a family vacation at Acadia National Park in Maine, we visited Port-in-a-Storm book store. I fell in love with the bookstore and returned several times. I decided then I wanted to have my book on its shelves. While sitting outside the book store, the idea for book with a Maine setting formed.

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”  Rudyard Kipling