Eclectic writer: Jan Selbourne is Visiting and Talking about Characters #MFRWAuthor #Heroes #Heroines #Villains

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

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9. Who are your favorite authors?