Wow, November already. With the year almost over, I wanted to keep featuring things that kept readers guessing and challenge the idea of the traditional reading genres and stories. What did you think of Hustle? Share your thoughts below, but first, the interview!!

Chocolate or Vanilla?

I have to cheat... both!

What's your favorite room in your home? Do you plot or write there?

I don't have a favourite room and I write where ever I find myself alone and not being disturbed, often in the lounge, but sometimes in odd places like a waiting room. Well, what else are you going to do in a waiting room? Play on your phone I suppose, but I prefer to read or write.

What’s something personal about you people might be surprised to know?

I speak English and French and have dual nationality.

What brought you to GA?

Another author.

What do you think makes up a good story?

An engaging narrative with good description which evokes a place, an atmosphere. Interesting characters, including supporting roles, plus the dialogue. I also like a plot, a beginning, a middle, and an end!

Is there any theme or plot you’d never write in a story?

Well, for all you lovers of the walking dead, werewolves and alpha males, I'm sorry, but that is not a genre that grabs me and I wouldn't attempt to write it.

What do you think makes Hustle stand out compared to other “similar” drama/adventure stories?

Does it stand out? If it does perhaps it's because it is the history of two brothers who as children get pushed from pillar to post, which is summed up in the opening of the story: 'Mischief moved them on in life, and moving kept them close. Morgan had Clinton, Clinton Morgan, and for both that was more than most.' So there are two things going on in the book, the plot about how they run away and try to make it back home to the states and the development of their relationship.

How important was it to make the main characters brothers instead of a single main character?

Very important. The story is as much about the two of them as it is about what happens. How the story plots out, whilst interesting, might almost be secondary to how they are together, how they relate and interact, and how this changes over time, as they grow up.

Do you have a favorite scene or moment that creates the greatest impact in Hustle?

I like this scene in chapter seven where Morgan asks his brother...

Having recently returned to writing/posting on GA, can you share something of your current writing or upcoming story(ies) with readers?

I have a large number of started but unfinished projects. It's sometimes difficult to choose between the different stories. Perhaps my next book will be Leo (a working title) it's a high school, college story very focused on the relationships between students and also family.

I ought not to tease, but I will anyway, it opens like this:

The last two weeks had been the worst time of his life. His mother, the hospital, Paul, and his best friend Marcus. People had killed themselves over lesser things, that idea never entered his head; but despair, pain, anger, and frustration, they were all there vying for a piece of him.

The pictures in his scrap book lay spread across the bedroom floor, torn out and scattered randomly where they had been discarded. The sketched images of Paul stared up at him from those sheets. Drawn from desire, love, hope!

If I manage to complete this, it's currently plotted out, but with only two chapters written, it will be a book which once again explores developing relationships. I guess, I find the inter-actions between people as intriguing as the plot!

Thank you for your interview questions, they made me think. I hope my replies are up to the job and provide some insight into me as a writer.