Ask the Author: Judy Hogan
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Judy Hogan
I was crossing the road where I live with my dog, when I saw a car speeding toward me. I ran, but immediately I fell down in the road, and fortunately she didn't hit me.
Judy Hogan
I would go to Three Pines in Quebec Province of Canada, where Louise Penny's characters live. I'd like to meet Clara and Armand Gamache and his wife and maybe we could have one of those wonderful lunches at the Bistro. I'd like to see Clara's painting of Ruth, and tell them all how much i enjoy reading about them. Judy Hogan
Judy Hogan
I currently am reading Skeleton God by Eliot Pattison, and I have also checked out of the Durham Library, his Blood of the Oak. Then Iplan to read Paretsky's Fallout; Charles Todd's The Red Door. I finished Racing the Devil recently. A friend recommended Flannery O'Connor's The Habit of Being, and I'm going to ask Interlibrary Loan to find me that. I'll be reading 2-3 books a week all summer. I have many favorite mystery authors. Oh, I also have a new one by Sasscer Hill: Flamingo Road.
Judy Hogan
All my mystery novels begin with real experience, not exactly a mystery, but a conflict I became aware of. In The Sands of Gower, I was surprised that some British people even 45 years after WW II ended, they still hated the Germans, and I took that up, also Anti-Semitism, in that novel. In Haw, I had had two landlords whose behavior bothered me, so I blended them to make one truly bad landlord, and killed him off, and then the mystery was: who killed him. So real life and my feelings give me ideas for how to work with those conflicts and make an interesting story.
Judy Hogan
Inspector Armande Gamache and his wife, Reine Marie in Louise Penny's Three Pines mysteries. I like the way they support each other, and their jokes and teasing. Louise Penny is my favorite contemporary mystery author.
Judy Hogan
Clear time. Write in my diary, go for walks, sit near water, write myself deeper into my mind. Wait for the words to begin in my mind and follow that thread.
Judy Hogan
I'm working on publishing more mysteries and also on an annotated diary from 1910 kept by my grandparents in China. I write poems once a week.
Judy Hogan
Read good books, including classics. Don't give up. Have good supporters. Stay away from harsh critics. Write as much as possible--diary, letters, everything.
Judy Hogan
I have to write or I don't feel healthy. It gives me a way to articulate human experiences and inner feelings hard to express any other way.
Judy Hogan
I've never had it. Sometimes it's hard to start. I do diary first, and i like to have at least 2 hours free for fiction before I start--uninterrupted hours.
Judy Hogan
I write all the time. For a novel, I clear time for about 2 months and I often have things I've noticed and want to write about, community issues as I'm an activist, too.
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