![]() ![]() The inspiration? “I saw this documentary about a couple who kidnapped a woman and held her captive for years,” Downing says. The group was especially taken with Downing’s Millicent character, a suburban wife and mother who harbors and indulges some extremely terrifying impulses. It was, she says, “a lot about the publishing industry that just made me give up.”īut two years ago, Downing joined a local writing group that was very encouraging. Early on, she attended a writing conference in New Orleans (where she lives now, a transplant from the Bay Area). The perk is that it involves travel, and she loves to write in airports.ĭowning says she always wrote novels, in all genres-some she finished and some she didn’t. ![]() Her job (which she plans to keep) is as a corporate secretary for a manufacturing company. ![]() Until now, Downing tells me, she always thought of her writing as a hobby. ![]()
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