Q & A with Carrie Stuart Parks and GIVEAWAY!!!!

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What is your current work in progress?

I’m writing the third book in the Gwen Marcey series, about a forensic artist and the Eastern Kentucky, Pentecostal snake handlers.

What are your hobbies, besides writing and reading?

I raise and show Great Pyrenees dogs. I’m also an AKC judge.

What advice would you give to a beginning author?

Be flexible and teachable. Keep learning and grow thick skin.
 

Tell us about The Bones Will Speak– a brief blurb:

When Gwen Marcey’s dog comes home with a human skull and then leads her to a cabin in the woods near her Montana home, she realizes there’s a serial killer in her community. And when she finds a tortured young girl clinging to life on the cabin floor, she knows this killer is a lunatic.

Yet what unsettles Gwen most is that the victim looks uncannily like her daughter.

The search for the torturer leads back in time to a neo-Nazi bombing in Washington state—a bombing with only one connection to Montana: Gwen. The group has a race-not-grace model of salvation . . . and they’ve marked Gwen as a race traitor.

When it becomes clear that the killer has a score to settle, Gwen finds herself in a battle against time. She will have to use all of her forensic skills to find the killer before he can carry out his threat to destroy her—and the only family she has left.

Is there one particular message or “moral of the story” you hope readers walk away with?

The story is about, ultimately, forgiveness.

Tell us about your research process.

The story is about a Phineas Priesthood serial killer. It is based on several of the cases I worked as a forensic artist. I was the composite sketch artist on Spokane’s Phineas Priesthood case as well as the Yates serial killer. I also was the courtroom artist for the Aryan Nations case. I reviewed my materials and read a number of books about the Christian Identity movement.

Where do you like to write?

I sit in the living room with the computer on my lap. When I travel, I write on the road.

How do you choose between ideas you’d like to write about?

I run my ideas past my agent and editor. They pick the one they are interested in.

Has there been a time in your own life where you could really sense God was putting you in a situation for a reason? 

Yes, when I was diagnosed with stage II breast cancer.

Where can readers find you online?

 www.carriestuartparks.com

Twitter: @CarrieParks

Facebook: Carrie Stuart Parks, Author

 Carrie Stuart Parks is an internationally known forensic art instructor as well as FBI trained, Certified Forensic Artist. She worked for the North Idaho Regional Crime Lab for years before going freelance. A winner of numerous awards for her innovative teaching methods and general career excellence, she is also a signature member of the Idaho Watercolor Society. Carrie’s debut novel, A Cry from the Dust, was sold at auction in a three book deal to Thomas Nelson. She was mentored in her writing by NYT best-selling author Frank Peretti.