Paula Treick DeBoard is a fiction author who writes what she calls "could be true" stories. She puts them in the category of family drama and suspense - writing about families at their breaking point or at a crisis in their lives. Here's the link to Paula's Show Notes page that features show highlights, quotes, her books, her websites, and her social media connections.

In this interview Paula takes us through her process of writing her novels describing how her characters develop and how the plot comes alive. She wrote her first novel when she was nine years old and admits it wasn't very good. Writing was a hobby and she didn't envision it becoming a career. But she became an English major in college and then an high school English teacher. Later she received a Masters degree in creative writing. Her thesis became the Mourning Hours, her first novel. She talks us through a pivotal moment in writing The Drowning Girls where the story changes because she tapped into the heart of the work.