Debbie Viguie: Always Been a Writer

Debbie Viguié has been writing for most of her life and holds a degree in creative writing from U.C. Davis. She has had numerous appearances on the New York Times Bestseller list for the Wicked series as well as cracking the yearly top 10 Christian book list for Booklist with the Psalm 23 series.

I met Debbie at Stellar Con not long ago, and I thought she was pretty awesome, so I figured you needed to meet her too. 

Tell us a bit about your most recent work.

I just released Celtic Charms, book 2 in the Twin Destinies series, featuring the world-famous Harp Twins. I depict fictionalized versions of the ladies as the heroes in the stories, fighting the forces of darkness. They create albums of original music to go with each book. We have all three been pushing each other creatively and it has been great fun!

What are the themes and subjects you tend to revisit in your work?

The struggle between light and darkness, people being able to accomplish more than they ever dreamed, family is who you choose

What happened in your life that prompted you to become a writer? 

I’ve always been a writer. I started writing poetry and short stories about my toys when I was very, very young. Then my third-grade teacher pushed creative writing a lot in her class. She told my parents that they should encourage me to be a writer, which I was already thinking about.

What inspires you to write? 

Everything I see and hear inspires me. An interesting song lyric, a weird conversation, a “what if” sort of daydream. I find inspiration everywhere I turn. As for the actual exercise of writing itself, it’s a compulsion. I can’t NOT write. Even when I’m on vacation, it just comes out of me. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve taken home napkins from restaurants with a paragraph or notes for a book scrawled on them.