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AUTHORS INTERVIEWING AUTHORS
Alice Early Interviews Deborah Goodrich Royce
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Q: In your varied career you have been an actor, edited films, written screenplays, and worked in development, including restoring buildings with community significance, before devoting most of your time now to writing pageturning fiction. You’ve described your life as “episodic.” How did you make the transition from your earlier career involvements to writing?
I stopped acting both by choice and by circumstance. I had had some success in film and television, I was living in LA, and I was newly married with two small children. As my priorities shifted, I found it harder to motivate myself to get out the door to audition for roles. When the opportunity arose to move to France (my first husband grew up there), we jumped at it. I knew it would mean the end of my acting career, which I grieved, but I took the risk. And a door opened. One day I met an executive from a French film studio. They were investing in English language productions and needed native English-speaking readers to evaluate manuscripts. She offered me a position, I accepted it, and the transition from acting to writing had begun! From there, I went on to be the story editor at Miramax Films and eventually began writing myself. The transition may have had some precipitous aspects, but it took twenty five years to unfold!
Deborah Goodrich Royce writes psychological thrillers that probe questions of identity. After a career in film and television (she played Silver Kane, sister of the legendary Erica Kane on the soap opera, All My Children), and a stint at Miramax Films as their story editor (snagging the Gwyneth Paltrow-starring version of Jane Austen’s Emma), Deborah turned her attention to writing. Her first novel, Finding Mrs. Ford, (called “juicy and suspenseful” by People Magazine) debuted in 2019. Her newest book, Ruby Falls (described as “taut and propulsive” by Kirkus Reviews) was published May 4, 2021.
Alice Early, a recovering business workaholic, is a writer, singer, and avid cook and gluten free baker living on Martha’s Vineyard. THE MOON ALWAYS RISING is her debut novel.
