Okay, first, Elmore Leonard on said .  I agree.  In spades.  In the bucket of biggest available backhoe.  With exceptions.  I wouldn't t...

How much sex and violence do I weave in?  Are you accusing me of writing crafting cozies?  I couldn't weave with a gun to my head.  Or ...

What an interesting question.  I managed to avoid nearly an hour of horrible first draft production, staring out of the window, thinking abo...

“How much do you know about a character’s back story before you write word one?   Or do you just wing it?” Any question along the lines...

. . . as Goldie Hawn says in bewildered tones, in Overboard , that towering piece of cinematic majesty. Dandy Gilver would be much the ...

“How much of your character's political and religious belief do you put in a book or do you shy away from those topics?” was the ques...

And when it's time to ring them down. When I got a publication deal for the first book in a detective series - or rather when I got a ...

. . . is "pee-the-bed".  Something that didn't occur to me until after I'd called my new series detective Dandelion (aka D...

by Catriona. Hello, everyone.  I'm delighted to be here and honoured to have been asked and since I'm oh so very much not one of t...