Creating Characters, fiction, Writing
When plotting a new story, one fun way for an author to genuinely get to know their characters is to interview them. It’s a method I’ve employed in the past and have wholly enjoyed. Check out my prior interviews here for Jake, and here for Eden. The subject for my...
Creating Characters, fiction, Heros
Yesterday’s Hero We’ve all heard of them, most of us have read them – many of us enjoyed them. What were they? Romance novels from decades ago, dime-store books, mass-market paperbacks we eagerly devoured, shared and discussed, where the hero swept the heroine off...
Creating Characters, fiction
New Release! In my new romantic suspense, Surrender at Canyon Road, (available May 2020!), my heroine is faced with a harrowing choice. She must save herself or save her meager possessions. Logically, we’d scream for her—for anyone—to save themselves. But in Dani’s...
Creating Characters, fiction
Romantic Suspense of Yore When I think of the Romantic Suspense genre from days gone by, the kind I once loved to read, I think of the innocent heroine, oblivious to the ways of the world, coddled and naïve, unaware of her own body and certainly oblivious about sex....
fiction, Family life, Politics
Lord Voldemort is no Gellert Grindelwald. Why? Because as a villain, a dark lord, Lord Voldemort was so extreme, so vile and hateful and cruel, that he was easier to see as fictional than the insidious Gellert Grindelwald who easily wins people over to the dark side...
