FINDING MY VOICE: Annie Seaton

Finding My Voice
Annie Seaton

 

What feeds Annie Seaton’s passion to write…
Writing for fame and money is not the sole motivator for successful writers.  So why do we write? Do we all aspire to be the next J.K. Rowling or Nora Roberts?  If you asked authors to answer that question, you would get many different answers.

So why does Annie Seaton write?
From the day I could read the printed word, I fell in love with storytelling. I still remember those hot Queensland summers sweltering in a kindergarten classroom learning to read courtesy of Dick and Jane. See Dick laugh. See Dick run. Go away Spot! A whole generation of ‘baby boomers’ (demographic post-World War II babies born between the years 1946 and 1964) grew up learning to read courtesy of these books and I still have fond memories of their adventures many, many years later.

As my reading improved, I began to visit other worlds. I explored Smugglers’ Cove with the Famous Five and solved crimes. I ran with Anne Shirley on Prince Edward Island and discovered the concept of kindred spirits. Mary Stewart introduced me to the Arthurian legend with the Merlin trilogy.

My love of historical fiction allowed me to visit many centuries and many countries, and led me into the study of history at university. Visiting other times also created my love for writing time travel stories…my third time travel story Hot Rock was published in February, and I have just bundled the other two into one book called Adventures in Time.

Through my reading, I lived for a while in the fourteenth century and went to the royal court with Katherine Swynford and witnessed her growing love for John of Gaunt, before moving across to Wales a century earlier and falling in love with Llewellyn of Wales.

Each book I have read has fed my passion to create stories readers will enjoy. I wanted to tell stories. The sorts of stories readers could lose themselves in. I had the dream, I had the passion but I didn’t make the time.  Life intrudes—family, career and reality, being a financial contributor to the family. When a life changing career event made me rethink my career, I took my first risk and left a full time career in education ten years before I had planned to.

And I finally got to tell my stories. I have dabbled in time travel, contemporary romance, paranormal, historical, romantic suspense and steampunk. After years of dreaming about them, they are now filling up the hard drive on my laptop…and hopefully the e-readers of readers across the world.

So for me being a successful writer is that I actually wrote and completed my first book, Holiday Affair. The unexpected success and best seller status was the icing on the writing cake. All those years of reading and writing in my head had honed my craft.

So my first goal was to write a book. Now my motivation to continue is to be able to write books readers enjoy and enable them to visit far-flung, exotic places and experience emotion thought the feelings of memorable characters. I have just completed my fifteenth book in three years….so I am happy with where I am with my writing.

My ultimate goal was to write a historical novel and I have just ventured into that territory for the first time. Capturing the Pirate’s Heart is in edits and will be released in March 2015.

 

J’aimee…thank you for having me visit.

 

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