The Angel and the Amazing Life of Maggie Love follows an angelic being tasked with evaluating the soul of a woman who has committed twenty murders and deciding if her soul should be saved. What was the inspiration for the setup of your story?

I went to bed one night and had a vision of a serial killer named Maggie. My inspiration was to try something different with this idea. So, my first line, (Maggie Love is finally dead.), gave me a way to tell the story in a very different way. Almost all novels are written from beginning to end. Since she is already dead, her soul inspecting Angel can take her through her crimes out of sequence.  The Angel tries desperately throughout to find one small iota of goodness in her, with the sole purpose of saving her soul.

Maggie is a flawed character that readers are drawn to despite her being a serial killer. What were some driving ideals behind your character’s development?

I needed Maggie to be an extremely exceptional individual. She is beautiful and extremely intelligent. She had to be very meticulous in planning her crimes, thus she is never under any real threat from the authorities. She is an amazing actress and has twelve aliases. She changes her voice and appearance at will.  In one chapter she transforms from a nerdy secretary into Maggie Love, right in front of one of her victims’ eyes.

I find that while writing, you sometimes ask questions and have the characters answer them. Do you find that to be true? What questions did you ask yourself while writing this story?

One question I had to ask myself was, “why is she killing so many?”  Maggie needs justification. Without that, these are just random murders. Maggie answers that question throughout by justifying her crimes by getting revenge on the people that drove her parents to murder suicide when she was very young.

When I was describing Maggie’s mother, I wrote, “she had a crooked nose like it had been broken”.  I questioned myself and asked, “why the hell did I write that?”   In a later chapter when Maggie is conceived, her pregnant mother is punched in the face by one of Maggie’s future victims. It came to me backwards.

What is the next book that you are working on, and when will it be available?

I’m working on a book called Illegal Immigration. The story of two generations of families on each side of the U.S. and Mexican boarders. It should be available in about 8 months.

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