Donna McClaire
Real Life Guides Donna McClaire's
Fictional Worlds
This house in Magnolia Springs, Alabama was the "real life" house fictionalized in Donna's first novel, Maxwell's Mansion. Donna bases all her fiction on the real world.
For Attack of the Killer Prom Dresses,
inspiration was her teenage daughter.
Donna played the "what-if" game.
What if her daughter, a fun-loving, level-headed kid with a lot of drive, one day realize super-human beings were hiding in her bedroom closet? For several weeks, while finishing her first novel, Donna took scribbled notes. The results are seen in "Attack of the Killer Prom Dresses."
"I had fun writing this," she recalls. "For one thing, I didn't have to make up a character, because that 'character' lived and breathed in my own home. In a way I was just writing down how I thought she'd react to some unique, unworldly happenings. Readers tell me the fictional character Kim Howell is very real to them."
Donna is now searching for material for her third novel. Whatever it is, we can be sure it will have something to do with her real life.
Available titles:
Attack of the Killer Prom Dresses
ISBN: 978-1-934614-06-8
