Characters
Heroes, Heroines, Villains. Which
are your favorite to write?
I don’t have favourites. I want
my heroes and heroines to be likeable even if they’ve hit rock bottom or made a
mess of things. With the villain, however, I have free rein to create what the
story needs.
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?
The idea for the story comes
first and my hero is perhaps 10% real life and 90% from me to fit the
story. He’ll have flaws, like all of us
but is basically a decent person.
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?
Like my hero, the heroine is
perhaps 10% real life and the rest to suit the story. She is her own woman and thinks for herself,
despite the era in which she lives.
Your favorite book?
I have lots of favourites. Can I mention three I read this year? Nightingale, by Fiona McIntosh, Burning
Bridges, Anne Krist, The Happiest Man on Earth, Eddie Jaku.
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?
Villains makes us think of evil
or unscrupulous people and most times the cause of our hero and heroine’s woes.
In my last book The Full Circle, the man who bankrupted his employer wasn’t the
villain. So, yes, they don’t always have
to be the bad guy or girl.
What is your latest release? Who
is the hero, heroine and or the villain?
I’ve just finished The Full
Circle.
An insignificant secretary
bankrupts two wealthy prominent businessmen and disappears without trace. When
Lloyd Harrington, on temporary leave from Scotland Yard, reluctantly agrees to
investigate, he has no idea the search will send him thirteen thousand miles to
the colony of New South Wales – and a woman determined to watch the downfall of
the man who destroyed her family.
What are you working on now?
Christmas novella with Nomad
Authors Anne Krist.
8. How can people find you?
Website: https://nomadauthors.com/JanSelbourne/index.html
Blog: http://nomadauthors.com/blog
Twitter:
http://twitter.com/JanSelbourne
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jan.selbourne
Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14661584.Jan_Selbourne?from_search=true
Amazon
Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/Jan-Selbourne/e/B0184OSZ6E/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0
Newsletter:
https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/h8t2y6
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jan-selbourne-2817b6140/
9. Who are your favorite authors?
Fiona McIntosh, Anne Krist,
Philippa Gregory,
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