1. What’s your genre and
do you write in more than one?
Contemporary romance is currently my sole genre.
2. Did you choose your
genre or did it choose you? It chose me. Some years ago, as Australian
correspondent for UK Writers’ News, I attended a Romance Writers of Australia
conference. I left the conference inspired to write romance novels, something
I’d never considered in either genre or length.
3. Is there any genre
you’d like to try? Or is there one you wouldn’t? Historical appeals,
specifically the medieval period, but at the moment I am daunted by the amount
of research necessary. Not mystery, fantasy.
4. What fiction do you
read for pleasure? A wide variety, including romance, historical, light crime
and general (non-genre) novels
5. Tell me a bit about
yourself and how long you’ve been writing. I’m based in regional New South
Wales. I’ve been writing for many years; my published career started with
non-fiction magazine articles, and continued via short stories in various
genres to book-length romance.
6. Which of your
characters is your favourite? A male favourite is Lee, chief protagonist in the
forthcoming romance Class Act,
because of his significant character development. From a man held hostage by
guilt and regrets and coping only through rigid control of every aspect of his
life, he comes to realise that he can
break free and permit himself to love.
7. Are there villains in
your books and how were they created?
Not villains in the sense of being criminal, but the stories do contain
a character whose malicious actions or motives are important to the plot. I
don’t know how they were created—they arrived ready-made to speak, and wrote
themselves in!
8. What are you working
on now? The missing middle of a story that has its beginning and ending.
1 comment:
Thank you for sharing this. Villains can be tricky to write about because it's too easy t make them stereotypes, in other words, all bad.
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