SACRED CROSSROADS — SAMPLE INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

LIGHTER / OPENING
1. Sacred Crossroads is your first novel after five business books. What changed?
2. Give us the one-sentence version of the story — who is Noble Manning and what happens to him?
3. What is magical realism, and why is it the right form for this story?
4. You live near the ocean and journaled for months. Walk us through your writing ritual.

DEEPER / SUBSTANTIVE
5. You describe 2023 as a complete spiritual awakening where certainty and identity stopped working. What did that feel like day to day?
6. You've said you were asking the wrong question for months. What was the wrong question, and what was the right one?
7. The book's subtitle is "The path appears when you take the first step." Why is certainty not a prerequisite for moving?
8. Noble is surrounded by women who see what he refuses to see. What were you working out with that dynamic?
9. You wrote about "the void" as unfamiliar and uncomfortable. Why did you choose to stay in that space instead of filling it?
10. Sacred Crossroads treats memory as a living force. What do you mean by releasing the emotional charge attached to it?
11. Leaders relate to this story. What is the quiet conversation high performers are having with themselves?
12. What does the Night Walker represent, and why does he ask instead of tell?
13. What did Sacred Crossroads cost you personally to write?
14. If someone picks up the book at a genuine crossroads in their life, what do you hope they feel by the last page?

BOOK CLUB / EVENT
15. You offer a free nine-page book club guide and virtual author visits. What happens in a Sacred Crossroads book club meeting?
16. What question should a book club leave a meeting still asking itself?