Introduction To The Gone Trilogy

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Please give our readers a short introduction to your Gone Trilogy.

Fifteen-year-old Macy Mercer has been the brunt of cruel jokes at school and feels misunderstood and sheltered at home. She thought losing weight would help, but it didn't. Wanting to prove to everyone that she's grownup and confident, she finds a boyfriend online. The day to meet him in person finally arrives. Excited and nervous, she arrives at the dark, secluded park a little early. She receives a text from him saying that he's held up at school. He wants his dad to pick her up. Once inside the truck, the man sets the locks and admits to pretending to be a teenager to gain her trust.

The Gone Trilogy deals with serious issues, such as kidnapping and abuse, how hard is …show more content…
That would have to be Chester. Getting into the head of someone so far at the end of his rope that he would stoop to kidnapping and imprisonment was a stretch, and also not the kind of mind I wanted to spend much time in!

You are a full-time author and educate your kids from home, both of which are challenging and time-consuming activities. How do you manage to find a balance?

I wake up early and get the bulk of my writing done before making the kids breakfast. Then we focus the mornings on schoolwork, ideally finishing by lunch. Then I focus on editing and marketing efforts in the afternoons. I used to run a home preschool, and quickly discovered that early morning was the only time I could fit in writing, and I've found that to remain true even after becoming a full time author.

Your book features many unexpected twists. Did you work out the entire plot of your book before you started to write or did these evolve naturally during the writing process?

There are certain twists that I plan and other ones that just come out as I'm writing, and surprise even me! I like to have enough of an outline to leave myself the freedom to let the story find itself. It's a wondrous thing to watch
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