Interview with Dale E. Lehman, Author of A Day for Bones

What’s the story behind the story? What impressed you to jot down A Day for Bones?

The flood that begins the novel is predicated on a pair of actual catastrophic floods in Ellicott City, Maryland in 2016 and 2018. The HorseSpirit Arts Gallery, the place most of a skeleton is discovered within the wake of the flood, is actual, though its proprietor relocated to Savage, Maryland after the 2018 flood.

What’s your favourite style to learn? Is it the identical as your favourite style to jot down?

In fiction, I’ve largely learn mysteries for the previous couple of a long time. I used to learn loads of science fiction and a few fantasy, however I’ve had bother discovering a lot that I actually like extra not too long ago.

What books are in your TBR pile proper now?

Too many. I need to get to Anne Hillerman’s mysteries. My late spouse began on them and mentioned they had been actually good. I’ve been working my manner by means of John le Carre’s novels, and I’ve a pile of very outdated (circa 1940) SF that belonged to my father. In nonfiction, I’m presently studying “Everest: The Unclimbed Ridge” by Sir Chris Bonington and Charles Clarke.

What scene in your e-book was your favourite to jot down?

The scenes I most get pleasure from writing are those the place attention-grabbing characters are doing the work for me. I had loads of enjoyable writing Mr. Jim’s scenes (cantankerous outdated coot that he’s). I additionally discovered it gratifying to jot down Rick Peller’s interactions with Shania North, a younger girl he met in “Ice on the Bay” and who he’s been attempting to rescue from opioid dependancy. The closing scene the place Peller introduces Shania to his wannabe girlfriend Joan Churchill was additionally particular, being redemptive on a number of ranges.

Do you will have any quirky writing habits? (fortunate mugs, cats on laps, and many others.)

Not actually, however I do have a cat that likes to stroll over and lie on my keyboard, which might make writing… attention-grabbing.

Do you will have a motto, quote, or philosophy you reside by?

I’m a Baha’i and attempt to dwell in accordance with my faith’s teachings. Sometimes I even succeed.

If you can select one factor for readers to recollect after studying your e-book, what would it not be?

I don’t know that it’s apparent, but when “A Day for Bones” has a theme, it could be the facility of forgiveness and second probabilities. Focusing on individuals’s faults is corrosive, whereas forgiveness is life-giving. I’d be gratified if just a few readers got here away with that message. Aside from that, I simply hope you benefit from the story!