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1.
Do you write a single genre or do your fingers flow over the keys creating
tales in many forms? Does your reading choices reflect your writing choices?
Are there genres you wouldn’t attempt? Right now I'm writing murder mysteries, but
have also written some YA stories that I will have published one day. While I
do enjoy a good mystery, I do enjoy a variety of novels and short stories. I've
even started to read some romance novels written by friends. The one genre I can't
see myself attempting is Erotica, it's just not something I'm interested in
writing or reading.
2.
Heroes, Heroines, Villains. Which are your favorite to write? Does one of these
come easy and why? I love a good hero! They seem to come to me far easier than heroines or
even villains, of course that can vary from story to story. They are far from perfect, but are always
there to try to save the day.
3.
Heroes. How do you find them? Do pictures, real life or plain imagination
create the man you want every reader to love? Do they come before the plot or
after you have the idea for the story?
My heroes tend to
blindside me. Just when I think I have a good story, a hero will appear out of
the page and try to control the way I think the story should go. In my Wild
Blue Mysteries, Leo Blue was a background character in The Bookstore Lady and
by The Bakery Lady, he'd taken over as a leading man!
4.
Heroines. How do you find them? Do pictures, real life or imagination create
the woman you want the reader to root for? Do they appear before the plot or
after you have the idea for the story? My heroines are all around me. All my
characters are composites of people I know, people I hear about in the news,
and people I hear about from other people. I never base one character on any
one person. I am blessed to have many strong women in my life who have had to
overcome adversity. I love writing about both their strengths and weaknesses.
5.
Villains or villainesses or an antagonist, since they don’t always have to be
the bad guy or girl. They can be a person opposed to the hero’s or heroine’s
obtaining their goal. How do you choose one? How do you make them human? In
writing mysteries, there can appear
to be more than one antagonist. They are all people with their own agendas, but
the one who ends up being the villain is usually the person who won't let
anyone stand in their way without making them an obvious villain. Just as a
protagonist isn't perfect, a good antagonist needs a blend of good and bad and
can even win over a reader until their true colors shine through.
6.
What is your latest release? Who is the hero, heroine and or the villain? My latest release from Books We Love Ltd.
is called The Bakery Lady. The hero is Leo Blue who tries to win over the new
bakery lady, Christina Davidson. I can't tell you who the villain is. You'll
have to read the mystery!
7.
What are you working on now? Right now I am working on a fourth book in
the Wild Blue Mysteries series called The Painted Lady for 2015 as well as a second
book in another mystery series.
8.
How can people find you?
Website http://penspaintsandpaper.com
Blog http://dbator.blogspot.ca/
Twitter https://twitter.com/dibator
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Diane-Bator-Author/263599617046736?ref=hl
Amazon Author Page http://www.amazon.com/Diane-Bator/e/B009CGCPRE/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1373146510&sr=1-2-ent
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