Peter, have you always wanted to be a writer? Will you tell us a little about yourself and your background?
I’ve been writing since I was a kid. I started by writing silly poems that were heavily influenced by Roald Dahl, and especially the songs the Oompa Loompas sing in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I kept writing poetry all through high school, then college, then got an MFA in creative writing with an emphasis on poetry at Emerson College in Boston. I didn’t start writing novels until about ten years ago, when I came up with an idea for a whodunit. But what I learned from writing that first novel (unpublished) was how much I loved writing novels, especially crime novels. There’s something to be said for staying in a story for a long period of time, waking up every day and getting back into that world.
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