Friday's Visitor Rosemary Morris Panster vs Plotter #MFRWAuthor #BWLAuthor #Panster #Plotter

1.                  Are you a panster or a plotter or perhaps a bit of both?

A panster. Before I begin writing a novel, I decide on a plot, but I don’t make detailed plans.

 2.Which comes first - characters or plot for you? First

I fill in detailed character profiles for the main protagonists and shorter ones for important minor protagonists. By the time I write chapter one I know the characters as well as I know friends.

3.What are you working on now? Is this a book in a current series or something totally new? I am writing Saturday’s Child, Heroines Born on Different Days of the Week, Book Seven.

Books two to seven are not sequels. They are classic regency novels in which some characters take minor parts in one of the other stories.

4. Do you have some kind of object or place that figures in most of your books? I use gems a lot, hospitals and caves.

No, but my books are rich with details of historical costume, food and places to recreate times past.

5. Do you write every day or just when the spirit hits?

My aim is to have a book, which requires intensive research, published every year. This means I don’t have the option of only writing when the spirit hits. I rarely take a day off.

6. Where can we find you? You can find me at.

www.rosemarymorris.co.uk 

https://bwlpublishing.ca/authors/morris-rosemary-historical-uk

Friday Alice Renaud is visiting and talking about Who She Was Before #MFRWAuthor #fantasy romance #Mermen

‘1. What were you in your life before you became a writer? Did this influence your writing?

I think I became a writer at the age of 14, when I wrote my first story, a sprawling, way-too-ambitious fantasy saga set in a world that the sea covered entirely once every 500 years. So before I was a writer I was a child. But I think a part of me has remained a child, in love with stories, monsters and heroes. Now I am a published writer but I also have a full time job as a compliance officer for a pharmaceutical company. I write at night – I think I might be turning into a vampire, without the bloodlust.

2.   Are you genre specific or general? Why? I don't mean genres like romance, mystery, fantasy etc. There are many subgenres of the above. 

I write fantasy romance, because I’m a romantic at heart and fantasy was my first love. It’s reading The Lord of the Rings, aged 12, that made me want to become a storyteller. Even then I zoomed in on the romantic elements. My favourite character was Eowyn, the feisty shield-maiden, in love with a man she couldn’t have, because he was in love with a beautiful elf.

3. Did your reading choices have anything to do with your choice of a genre or genres? 

I read widely – I love fantasy, paranormal, and historical romance, but I also like contemporary novels. Currently I’m reading “The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock,” by Imogen Hermes Gowar, and loving every word of it. It’s a historical romance with fantasy elements, so right up my street. I have written contemporary romance, but I enjoy writing fantasy a lot more, and that’s definitely because I’ve always loved fantasy books. Tolkien, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett are a few of my favourite authors.

4. What's your latest release? 

My first book, A Merman’s Choice, was published in January this year by Black Velvet Seductions. It’s the story of the forbidden, but fated, love between a shape-shifting merman and a human woman, inspired by the landscapes and legends of Wales and Brittany. The second book in the series, Music for a Merman, is due out later this year.

5. What are you working on now? 

I’m working on the third book in the Sea of Love mermen series. The title is “Mermaids Marry in Green.” This story is based in London, and is more of an urban fantasy, centred on the romance between a kick-ass shape-shifting mermaid and a warlock who is trying to give up magic. It’s great fun!

6. Where can we find you? 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AliceRenaudAuthorRomance/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/alicerauthor

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alice-renaud-author-4219b6166/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alicerenaudauthor/

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/18670218.Alice_Renaud

Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/profile/alice-renaud

Barbara Bradley is Friday's Visitor She's Talking about Writing #MFRWauthor #Panster #Plotter

1. Are you a panster or a plotter or perhaps a bit of both? More a pantser than a plotter because my characters help write the book. I know the basic plot of the book as I write and try to keep the book flowing with that loose version of the plot in my head. Thank goodness my characters have never taken me off on a weird tangent. They stick to the plot like I do.



2. Which comes first - characters or plot for you? Normally characters. I've been working on sequels the last few years and I am using characters from the previous books so I didn't have to develop them as much and jump right into getting that plot going.




3. What are you working on now? Is this a book in a current series or something totally new? I think I kinda answered that in the last question, didn't I? Right now I'm working on a sequel to Tears of the Queen and will start on a sequel for A Quest for Love once I have the rough draft done on the Tears Sequel and I will continue on my Vespian Way series.




4. Do you have some kind of object or place that figures in most of your books? I don't think so. I've written time-travels, futuristics, historical and urban fantasy and there aren't anything that seems to show up in all of them, except maybe humor?




5. Do you write everyday or just when the spirit hits? I write every day unless my sister is around. She's my best friend but we don't live close so when she's either visiting me or I'm visiting her I spend all my time with her.


6. Where can we find you? Barbaradonlonbradley.com, https://www.facebook.com/barbbradley , https://twitter.com/barbbradley  , https://twitter.com/Bethany85799163  I am working on creating more sites for Bethany Drake which is my pen name.

Friday's Visitor - Minxie Wells Talking about Characters #MFRWauthor

1. How do you create your characters? Do you have a specific process?

My heroines are always defiant smart-asses, just like me. My Doms are uncompromising and omnipotent. I stick them together in a fictional situation and try to imagine how they'll react and interact.

2. Do your characters come before the plot? Do you sketch out your plot or do you let the characters develop the route to the end?

Characters always come before the plot. I put them in an initial situation and watch as it evolves. Sometimes, what happens is probably as much of a surprise to me as it is to the reader. Ultimately, I construct the stories I would want to read myself.

3. Do you know how the story will end before you begin? In a general way or a specific one?

I know it's going to be a HEA ending. The trick is maneuvering through the plot and the characters' reactions and thought processes to get them to that happy conclusion.

4. Do you choose settings you know or do you have books of settings and plans of houses sitting around.

I generally make up settings but settings are less important in my books than character, dialogue and plot.

5. Where do you do your research? On line or from books?

Google is my best friend. But I've also researched "the scene" by visiting chat rooms, interviewing friends and accompanying them to parties and clubs.