Ask the Author: Timothy Cole
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Timothy Cole
Cry for Lancer is finished and awaiting a final polish. The story begins with a fishing trip with Hemingway in Cuba. Castro comes to dinner and meets star-crossed love Marita Lorenz. It ends on Dealey Plaza, November 22, 1963 at 12:33 central time. Dasha struggles to stop the president's murder, and when she fails, she works to determine who fired the fatal shots. You'll come for the storyline—and stay for the cascade of research that examines that fateful day.
Timothy Cole
I want to see how the story ends.
Timothy Cole
Murder This Close. Dasha Petrov is in the middle between two successful mystery writers vying for her attentions. They each think she can supply the verisimilitude to make their novels sing. The competition gets physical, and dangerous, and they each wind up dead. Dasha's been named in their wills and, when the evidence piles up, gets blamed for their murders. The real killers are at large, and she puts herself in the crosshairs to lure them into the open.
Timothy Cole
Premise comes first, followed by character-driven plot. The characters get a vote on which way they want to go.
Timothy Cole
Losing yourself in the story and the characters, and feeling that euphoria when it's really coming together. I love that breakthrough when the story writes itself, and I love the spontaneity when the characters take you places you never really imagined.
Timothy Cole
To deal with writer's block, I always return to the premise, and I also move the characters forward in time and place.
Timothy Cole
She hears foot steps, and she knows they're coming to kill her. She brushes off the safety of her Walther PPK, and braces for the moment she'll have to decide who lives and who dies.
Timothy Cole
I am fascinated by the history of the end of World War II, so I would like to see the end of the German Reich from ground level, April, May, June 1945. I am also interested in the 19th and early 20th century history of Indochina. Ho Chi Minh was on our side in World War II, and I would like to see and understand how we turned him against us.
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