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Interview with Gale Laure – Author of the Multi-Genre Novel ‘Evolution of a Sad Woman’

Gale Laure, a native Texan, is the international selling author of Evolution of a Sad Woman, a mystery, suspense, thriller and romance novel .   She resides in a small suburban town in the Houston area with her husband and family.  Laure’s hobbies include genealogical research, movies, creating stories for the children around her, involvement in her church and people watching.

She is busy at work editing her second novel, The Bunkhouse, and writing the sequel to Evolution of a Sad Woman. It is entitled Alana – Evolution of a Woman.  As mysterious as her  book, Laure writes under a pseudonym.  Adamant about maintaining her privacy and the privacy of her family, she keeps her identity a mystery!

For more information about Gale Laure or her novel, Evolution of a Sad Woman,  visit www.galelaure.com or her blog  www.evolutionofasadwoman.com .

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Q: It’s rare today to find an author who does nothing but write for a living. Do you have a ‘real’ job other than writing, and if so, what is it? What are some other jobs you’ve had in your life? Have they influenced/inspired your writing?

I am a full-time author.  I tried many careers before becoming an author.  I worked as an office manager in a physician’s office, a legal assistant, a paralegal, in a CPA’s office and an insurance office.  I owed my own business consulting business and my own travel agency.  Yes.  I will use my career knowledge in my future novels.  Several of the wonderful contacts I met during these careers have been wonderful enough to give me consultations during my research.  They have been most helpful.

Q: Have you always wanted to be a writer?

I did but I did not know that I did.  As you can see by the answer in Question One above, I have had a lot of careers.  None of my careers fulfilled me.  I was always lacking something.  Unhappy in my present career, one day I was talking to my sister.  I told her I did not know what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.  She reminded me that I always told stories to the other children when I was a child.  I would give them characters from the stories to play.  They loved it.  She reminded me that I should tell stories.  I wondered how I could do this and make a living.  I prayed on it that night.  The next morning, Evolution of a Sad Woman was in my head.  I sat down at the computer and began my writing career.

Q: Tell us briefly about your book.

Evolution of a Sad Woman is about five men who have been in love with the same beautiful, unforgettable woman, Kizzy.  When Kizzy is brutally murdered these five strangers are brought together to solve this crime.  They are forced to share their romantic pasts with Kizzy to find clues to solve the murder.  Taken down a dark and dangerous road of crime, cruelty and perversion, they see things they never thought were possible.  However, the  surprise ending to this adventure will change their futures forever!

Q: What are you working on at the moment?

I am doing my first edit of The Bunkhouse.  It is a historical, mystery, suspense, thriller and romance book with a science fiction twist.  I wrote it for my husband who is a science fiction fan.  I am writing on the sequel to Evolution of a Sad Woman.  It is entitled Alana – Evolution of a Sad Woman.  All the favorite characters will be back.  It will be a mystery, suspense, thriller, and romance novel.  I am researching Time in Vieux Carre, a mystery, suspense, thriller, and romance book.

Q: Do you have a favourite character? Why is s/he your favourite?

My favorite character in Evolution of a Sad Woman is Kizzy.  Kizzy is a complicated lady.  She is a different woman with each of the five men, and yet, she is the same.  Kizzy is emotional, mischievous, good, bad, intelligent, playful, sophisticated, strong, vulnerable, genuine, loyal, fickle, sexy and beautiful.  She is so full of life, and she lives life with every ounce of her being.

Q: What type of music, if any, do you listen to while you write? Do you need the noise or the silence?

While I am in the process of writing, I must have complete quiet.  However, many great ideas have popped into my head while driving down the road listening to my “golden oldies” on the radio station.  I like songs about freedom and romance.  I like the rock and Motown songs of the late fifties and early to mid sixties.  For some reason, they set my heart aglow.

Q: If you could live in one of your books, which one would you live in? (If you’re promoting your first publication, feel free to talk about an unpublished piece.)

I would live in a novel that I have coming up in the future.  It is called Time in Vieux Carre and takes place in New Orleans.  I love the strong, female character in this novel.  The release will be way in the future.  I have three books to release before it.

Q: Do you have any book signings, tours or special events planned to promote your book that readers might be interested in attending? If so, when and where?

Yes.  I am currently involved in a virtual blog book tour.  It is my first.  I have found it to be quite delightful.  You can stay home in your jammies all day and blog with readers.  My tour is running through December sixteenth.  Details of my tour are on my website.http://www.galelaure.com Please see the Tours and Parties page.  I am not planning any book signings until the flu season has passed.

Q: It’s one thing to write a book and another to edit it. How do you feel about the editing process? What was it like to edit your book?

Editing is the one thing I hate about the writing process.  I have to make myself finish the edits.  I mean well and start out very gung-ho.  However, I search for any reason why I cannot edit.  It takes all my discipline to edit.

Q: Now that you are a published author, does it feel differently than you had imagined?

Yes, I do.  I thought that I would write this novel, everyone would buy it, all the reviewers would love it, and I would sit home in my glory.  Wrong!  After you publish your novel, you have to market that book.  You have to open yourself up, and let people get to know you.  This is very hard for me since I am a private person.  I only share myself with certain people of my choosing.   I am not shy, only private.  I have not liked this part of the publishing mission.  I suppose nothing is perfect in life.  We just like to believe it will be.