Interviewing Author Phyllis Entis

I became a novelist more or less by accident. I was a microbiology major in college, graduating

from McGill University (Montreal) with a Bachelor of Science and the University of Toronto with

a Master of Science. I spent the best part of 40 years working in the area of food safety.

Although I didn’t turn to write fiction until after I (sort of) retired, I have been a writer my entire

professional life. I’ve written scientific reports, sections for encyclopedias and food safety

manuals, and even a couple of textbooks. In 2011, I started to attend a drop-in creative writing

workshop at a local library. I published my first novel in 2015.

The inspiration and title for my first novel evolved from a writing prompt I was given during one

of the workshop sessions. The prompt was a necklace of green plastic beads. The beads

transformed themselves in my head into a rope of expensive green pearls, and The Green Pearl

Caper was born.

My first book has spawned three more, and the Damien Dickens Mysteries is now a four-book

series. The main characters are a husband-and-wife team of private investigators and the tone

is somewhere between cozy and noir. The series is set in the early 1980s. I am planning the fifth

book in the series, but haven’t yet started putting fingers to keyboard.

In addition to plotting and researching the fifth Damien Dickens Mystery, I am also researching

a prospective book on the pet food industry. I’m hoping to make progress on both projects

through the remainder of 2018.

If any of your readers would like to find out more about my writing, they can visit my website,

my Amazon Author page or my Facebook page at;

Gone Writing: phyllisentis.wordpress.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/DamienDickensMysteries

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Phyllis-Entis/e/B071LRJ4JY/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0

Phyllis Entis Just won 2019 Award For the top female Author Award you can read the award in the top picture I attached the picture above.

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