Intimate Conversation with Dr. Niama L. WilliamsBook Spotlight: DETECTIVE FICTIONISBN: 978-1-4357-4127-0
BOOKSELLER:
http://www.blowingupbarriers.com/journey1.htmlDr. Niama L. Williams is a poet, novelist, essayist, memoirist and former adjunct professor of English with a Leeway Foundation grant, inclusion in an NAACP Image award nominated anthology (Check the Rhyme), and participation in a Sable Magazine/Arvon Foundation writing
workshop in the United Kingdom under her belt. She is available for comment at:
drni@blowingupbarriers.com.
* Tell us what motivated you to write this book.I thought I had said all I needed to say about the white psychiatrist until my mother died and I went to England for the first time and I came home to his spirit haunting me in my apartment. That's when I knew he and I were not finished with our particular spiritual tango .......
* Who did you write this book for?Seers. Psychics. Those who watch Ghost Whisperer and Medium and The Mentalist and The Others and Millennium and Brimstone for instruction in how to live and cope and be.
* Bring your 3 main characters to life. Tell us who they are and what you love about them.
In this book, the sequel to THE JOURNEY, Sara begins from a place of self-acceptance, but now it is about learning to live with her gift, learning how to manage being haunted by someone who refuses to talk to you except on a spiritual level. What to do when you have an entire conversation with your neighbor though both of your doors are closed and you are seeing him, hearing him, in your mind's eye only.
The doctor, Jim, is still an immutable, largely silent force here, but he has permanently moved into Sara's psyche and walks between protecting her, desiring her, and being a general pain in the ass.
Vincent is still being Vincent; kicking Jim's ass and raging whenever he can because he does not like the games Jim plays with the woman he loves.
* How do you spend your free time? Do you write poetry or sing?
I have this dream of doing a private thank you concert for the musicians who saved my life with their music: Sting, Billy Joel, Manilow .... I have a lilting voice, I am told, but I have no professional training. One day I'll get the professional training.
I have recently discovered the ability to sketch, a talent I didn't think I had, and I find it very relaxing and freeing. Primarily because I don't have to be good at it, I can fail, be mediocre and still enjoy myself. I push myself so hard everywhere else, but with the sketching no one has to
teach me, it's just me expressing and I like that. No standards to live up to. Every artist should have one thing they do just for themselves. Perhaps like Vincent's blues guitar.
* What is your process for creating a novel? Do you plot out the story or do the characters speak to you?I am rambling Rosie, letting the words come and fall as they may. It makes me difficult to understand sometimes, but most people enjoy the entire experience.
* Could you image your life without writing today?
No. No way. I'd be insane. Debilitated.
* Do you feel writing is for those trained to write or for anyone who has a story to tell?Writing is for those that need it.
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