[Interview: Part 2 of 2] Tonia Brown
Earlier, Tonia Brown talked about the books she's written and published. In the final part of this interview, she talks about her concerns as a writer: When did you start writing? I have always written creatively in one from or another, for as long as I can remember. I used to write a fair amount of poetry, and still turn to the task from time to time. I toyed for a number of years with the idea of writing longer works, a story or perhaps even a book, but always abandoned it after reading something from one of my favorite authors and realizing that I could never produce work that good. Then, about four years ago, I was at my third shift job reading some new book by some new author, whose name I shall leave to the imagination. Even at four in the morning I could tell the book lacked substance, style and character. Yet I had paid full price for the thing and was reading it from cover to cover. It was at that point I decided that I had a story to tell and maybe it was time to get it