Author: Alex Beecroft

  • Spring Showers

    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…

  • Meme catch up again

    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…

  • Day 26

    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…

  • Day #25

    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…

  • Angel of Death

    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…

  • Write or die!

    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…

  • Day 22

    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…

  • Day #20 and writing

    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…