PK Corey Interview Published on: 09, Dec 2021

At age eleven on a LONG family car trip, Cassie strolled into my imagination. At that time she was in her forties and living in a loving domestic discipline marriage. She told me her stories. She’s like an imaginary friend who never left. Over fifty years later she’s still with me and still telling me stories.

Probably by the age of two or three. By four, I could tell the episodes that contained spanking after seeing only the first few seconds.

I always loved Charlotte’s Web.

I think short stories would be the place to begin. Even if you want to write a novel, write the different parts as a short story so you won’t feel overwhelmed. You can put them together later.

I really enjoyed spanking stories, but I couldn’t find what I wanted to read. Everything I found was so harsh and seemed to have very little to do with love. I had Cassie’s stories in my head – full of both spanking and love. When I found blogs in 2006 I began writing her stories. I was thrilled to find that others liked them too.

Allie has been a major character in my work since my third Cassie book. She began as Cassie’s young neighbor and they quickly close friend, despite the difference in their ages. She went on to become Cassie’s daughter-in-law. When she met Cal’s wife, Jenny, another close friendship formed. All my characters just seem to wander into my head. I don’t plan them.

I’m not sure that there are any innovative advances in storytelling. It’s been around and thriving since the beginning of man. But there many, many new avenues to find stories. Tons of new authors able to self-publish, audio books, pod casts… no one should be hurting for new stories.

I had been blogging Cassie’s stories for nearly six years before I truly thought about a novel. That’s when I began trying to group the stories into book form. I worried that it would be too much like a collection of short stories rather than a full length novel. But I worked hard weaving everything together and it seemed to work.

Probably the first one, Cal’s Law. It did begin as a short story, but then I had to get to know everyone and feel my way through. But the time I wrote the last three books, I knew my characters and I let them do most of the work.

I sometimes feel more like a typist than a writer. I only loosely know where a scene will go. I know my characters well. I place them in a situation, then I close my eyes and watch and listen as it unfolds in my head. All I have to do then is type it up. I think this is why I like series so well. I hate working with strangers.

Tell stories! Seriously, practice writing stories about everything – incidents at work, things your kids or grandkids tell you, something strange you’ve seen on the streets. Many of my early stories (decades before I began really writing) came from song lyrics – this was before music videos. I liked making up stories to go with the words. Practice stories that make people laugh and cry. Practice makes perfect.

I hope not. I do worry about younger people who depend so much on social media. I’d like to think that most people have at least a small core of friends who would drop everything to come to someone’s aid if called. Close friendships among women are a strong theme in all my books. Sometimes I find myself envying Cassie’s friendships.

Reading, obviously. I enjoy spending time with my grown children and my two Golden Retriever grand dogs. My husband and I are beginning to venture back out into the world to do a little traveling and I enjoy keeping up with friends around the world through blogs and emails.

Once when I was writing a scene, I had only a vague idea of what was going to happen. As I wrote, a complete stranger – someone I’d never thought about and had no idea she was in my head – burst onto the scene and completely took over. I was startled but delighted. This lovely woman, Lily, not only took control of that scene, she decided to stay and is now one of the main, and most beloved, characters in my books.

I’ve been a member for less than a year but I love the ease of being able to make my own banners that look so lovely and professional. I also like that I can find new authors and I love being notified when an author I’m following comes out with a new book.