All this month over at Coffee Time Romance, authors published by Samhain are doing a mass posting of excerpts, plus a mass give-away of books. For every excerpt posted, all you have to do is comment on it and you could win that book. It’s going on here: http://www.coffeetimeromance.com/board/forumdisplay.php?f=1264 I’ve got an excerpt of Captain’s…
27. Along similar lines, do appearances play a big role in your stories? Tell us about them, or if not, how you go about designing your characters. Some characters’ physical appearances make a difference in their story, and some don’t. Generally, if my characters are handsome they receive more attention of the “phwoar, I’d do…
26. Let’s talk art! Do you draw your characters? Do others draw them? Pick one of your OCs and post your favorite picture of him! Do I draw my characters? No, I can’t draw. Do others draw them? Only one person (to my knowledge) has ever drawn one of my characters. That was the amazing…
25. Do any of your characters have pets? Tell us about them. Hm… Oswy (from The Witch’s Boy) has a dog, as a result of a symbolic gesture on the part of Leofwine, which told us a lot about Leofwine and something about Oswy, but nothing about the dog. The dog then plays no further…
24. How willing are you to kill your characters if the plot so demands it? What’s the most interesting way you’ve killed someone? I’m perfectly willing to kill a character whose purpose in the story is to die – that’s what he’s there for. To a certain extent I think of my characters as actors…
Day 23 of the meme: 23. How long does it usually take you to complete an entire story–from planning to writing? It very much depends on how long the story is. I don’t really like short stories, so I’m generally looking either at a novel or a novella. In that case it doesn’t normally take…
22. Tell us about one scene between your characters that you’ve never written or told anyone about before! Serious or not. If I haven’t written it, and I don’t intend to write it, is it really a scene at all? I mean, yes, there was the one where Farrant survived and he, John and Alfie…
I decided that I would like to try the first book of the Dresden files, but I have no more shelf space, and I have my new ereader, so I thought I would get it in ebook format. Bloody hell! They really do do everything in their power to stop you from reading your ebooks…
21. Do any of your characters have children? How well do you write them? I’ve written characters who are children (Oswy in the Witch’s Boy who is an 11 year old protagonist), and I’ve written my fanfiction characters as children. I’ve written Farrant running alongside his son’s pony, and Elizabeth Sheldrake with her baby, but…
20. What are your favorite character interactions to write? This one’s fairly easy. I’ve often said that my short stories consist entirely of putting two characters into a room and having them talk. I like to take characters who have very different points of view, who possibly dislike each other and have contempt for everything…
