Ask the Author: Barbara Spencer
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Barbara Spencer
How terrible I was locked out of Goodreads for a while so missed this question - My book world would be New York, the setting for Nancy Bilyeau'sDreamworld.
Barbara Spencer
I am just about to read: Silenced by Anne Randal
Barbara Spencer
Because I have always written for YA's and children, (until Broken came along) the adults in my stories have often been the bad guys. So, for me, it has to be Dr Alison Shaw and Tom McFaddean from Legend of the Five Javean. I mean they're not married or anything. In fact she doesn't much like him at the beginning of the book. Anyhow, she's fantastic, terribly funny and a whizz with a hockey stick and he's the most marvellous cook, and totally brilliant with a sword.
Barbara Spencer
The idea for Broken came when I was ferrying my daughter to the swimming pool at Street and saw kids sitting on the pavement edge. Nothing to do except smoke and get into mischief.
Barbara Spencer
I am not sure what other writers say. For me, I wake up in the morning with an idea which swells and swells until I have to put pen to paper.
Barbara Spencer
'Broken', has just appeared in paperback and is a very different style for me while September sees the long-awaited publication of the 3rd of the Jack Burnside Adventures: The Lions of Trafalgar.
What am I currently writing - I am struggling at the moment with a title-less book.
What am I currently writing - I am struggling at the moment with a title-less book.
Barbara Spencer
Plan. So may writers tell me they like to 'wing' it, go with the flow. If you are to be taken seriously, you need to follow the line of the plot to the end. I promise it doesn't stop the creative juices. It actually gives you more freedom and you don't write yourself into a blind alley.
Barbara Spencer
For me now, is meeting so many schoolchildren who love reading.
Barbara Spencer
I write upstairs, so writers' block sends me down to the kitchen to make a coffee. Looking at the street and people going past soon shifts the rubbish in my head.
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