Q: How did you get your start writing fiction, and what genre do you predominantly write in?
A: I would never have started writing if my husband hadn’t challenged me to write a book. In 1996 he said, “Stop telling me you are going to write a book one day. Do it now. Quit your job and see if you can get anything published in the next year.” I took him up on his challenge, and my first book was published

Q: How did you get your start writing fiction and what genre do you predominantly write in?
A. I started writing when I was still working as a police officer. I have always loved to read police procedurals, crime novels, and suspense novels, so when I started to write, that was the direction I went: suspense novels with a police officer as the main character.

Q: What does your writing space look like?
A: A mess . . . especially with a deadline

Q: Let me start with asking you to tell us a little bit about yourself.

A. Cam: Well, I will start with some commonalities that Julie and I share. In some ways, we truly have parallel lives. We both live in southwest Louisiana, have three children, and have been writing together for over 10 years. Our fathers were in ministry, Julie’s dad was a Baptist minister and my dad was a non-denominational minister. When we met the connection was instant! Our