Full name: Deirdre Joan Blackmore
Fond childhood
memories: Roast dinners after Sunday school, but perhaps the best sharing times
were creating cottage crafts with my mother.
Education: Diploma of
Dietetics and Nutrition Q.I.N.S
For
many years as a child I wanted to be someone like an archaeologist. Then I
dabbled in the thought of acting. Yet I always, for as long as I remember,
loved the power of words, and the world of books. I realise that
in writing historical fiction, I have combined history with drama, and I
know now with a certainty that this is what was ordained for me.
My inspiration for
writing comes from life's trials, tribulations and choices. I have
recently realised that even when we think we are the master creator, we are in
fact pawns to our deepest fears and desires, penning them with without
conscious thought. A novel is not so fictional after all; it is a journey of
the soul.
Every challenge in life
seems the biggest at the time.
Although I would dearly
love to travel back in time, I would only ever want to do it in the skin I'm
in. I desire for no other identity but my own.
Favourite genre:
historical romance. I also enjoy a little suspense thrown in to the mix.
I began writing at the
age of fourteen. The urge to set words to paper has only grown.
Charter to Redemption is
the first of my works to be published. It's sequel, Consider the Ravens, is
complete and awaiting my publisher's perusal.
My goal is to share as
much of myself through my words as I am able. So because we never know for how
long we are here, I'm in a hurry to get things done.
The characters in my
work reflect the main influences in my life. Often aspects of either one
or both parents figure in the plot, yet there are other lesser characters who
are fictitious.
An author breathes the
instinct for story, and will find the snatch of a tale out of nowhere, often
times without deliberate thought.
Many countries would
be dream holiday destinations, since every country has a story, every
people a song.
I was born and raised in
New South Wales, Australia. My father was Cornish, and my mother a first
generation Australian. My grandmother was a Scot, and my grandfather came from
Scottish convict descent.
So many lovely times of
the day, but I love when the late Summer afternoon grows purple with the threat
of thunder, and the warm wind picks up. That for me is pretty
atmospheric.
The last books I read
were RUN by Chance McLin PhD, and MINE by Janelle Kahele, both Christian
writers. The former concerning the great tribulation, and the latter focussing
on domestic violence.
Favourite books: Jane
Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, and The Last Sin Eater, by Francine Rivers.
Favourite movies: The
Last of the Mohicans, The Crucible, BBC drama Wuthering Heights
BBC drama, North and
South.
I don't have a favourite
celebrity, since their public face is of no importance to me. It's true the the
measure of a real man's character is what he would do if he thought he would
never be found out.
Favourite food: I'm
really into Food in History - see Reay Tannahill - and I have fads. I'm
particularly passionate about simple traditional foods of my cultural
heritage, but I love fish, prawns, vegetables, and fruit straight from the
orchard.
Favourite quote: William
Shakespeare has a treasure trove of them. Standout biblical quote: Ephesians 6:12 "For
we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against
powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts
of wickedness in the heavenly places."
Autobiographical line:
to give voice to my words, long after I am gone.
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