Fiction-Trail: Author Smackdown!
Every week fiction-trail will choose
an author and contributor of Fiction
on Steemit and see if we can take a black dagger to their defenses!
This week we speak to the paranormal loving, extremely talented, funny and likeable writer 
! Lets see if she will want to do Today Again!
! Lets see if she will want to do Today Again!
FT: How and when did you first learn about Steemit?
D: From my husband, just a few weeks before I joined, so early November.
FT: Is your husband on Steemit?
D: On steemit? No. No, he was fairly adamant about me making this my world. In a good way.
FT: How did he hear of it?
D: He was looking for a way for a friend of his to make money off of an idea. Basically this friend had plans to walk from NY to Florida and document it. My husband's research led him to steemit...however this friend never did end up taking that walk, instead I ended up here.
FT: How do you feel about your progress on the platform, do you feel you have gained traction on steemit?
D: I do. I've made a lot of great friends and connections, and there is an amazing amount of interest in my books. It's interesting, because as a writer, I had this idea that if I published my novels, I would never really interact with those who read them. Therefore I never considered my personality to be a potential asset in my creative endeavors. Until steemit.
FT: Thats really good, some people have said in the nicest way that they do not get a lot of interaction yet still get a lot of votes. Partly I presume due to the bots
D: Yes, the bots come, but I don't really measure the votes verses the interaction. If five to seven, and sometimes as much as ten people are on a chapter talking about it, I think it's great. I've had many people tell me that they're reading it, they just don't comment that often as well. The truth is, I just love the idea that people are enjoying the words I put together, it's something I would do regardless.
FT: Can you give us a bit of an insight into you and your history of writing?
D: Sure. I have been writing stories since I was five years old. I think my mother still has "A Rainbow Brite Christmas" which was a booklet of construction paper where I drew pictures and wrote on each page. My imagination has always been huge. When I was twelve years old I applied for the Institute of Children's Literature, which was a course for writing through the mail (this was before the internet). I was the youngest person to be accepted. I have to sadly admit that my interest waned by the time I was fourteen and discovered boys, so I didn't complete it. But I did learn a great deal!
FT: Hot donk and hee haw, to the favourite question... If you could be an animal what would it be?
D: I would definitely be a bird. I alternate between something majestic and predatory like an Eagle, or more dainty like a canary
FT: Splendid answer!
D: Just because I want to fly, of course
FT: and not because you like the title of Caneagle?
D: Coffee down my shirt again! LOL
FT: How has steemit affected the way you write... if it has?
D: Well, it has because I am writing a book for steemit. Generally I do a lot of revising and rewriting, I mean A LOT. But with Today Again, I'm basically winging it, and there's something really great about it, to let people see whatever raw talent I may have.
Also, i am working on a collaboration story. The core story begun by 
FT: I do like the collaborative ones myself!
D: Fisteganos is from Nigeria, and he wrote part one, riskdebonaire from Pakistan wrote part two, then son-of-satire from Scotland (London born), then myself from NY, and somehow we managed to put together a story that seems to be working so far with four unique, diverse voices.
Blockchain fiction!
FT: What genres excite you as a reader and as a writer?
D: Wow, that's tough. I'm very eclectic, and it depends on the year, or the month. It's easier to list what I don't enjoy, which are westerns. But yes, I love paranormal, Stephen King, J.R. Ward
FT: What would you say is your finest Steemit post in any category not necessarily the most lucrative?
D: The Playground Series. It's a short story series I posted in the beginning, that i will resume posting at some point. It's difficult to say which one I like the best, but perhaps Episode 6. It's nothing like my books. It's philosophical. There is an air of magic, however
FT: And finally. What advice would you give to a new steemian wishing to write and potentially get noticed on Steemit
D: I would say that engaging with other users is key. I always recommend new users stop by papa-pepper's and get involved in a contest first, it's a great way to meet people and get a feel for the community. Then go into the topics you enjoy and comment, comment, comment!
