Ask the Author: Joe Kelley
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Joe Kelley
Phineas Finn and Madame Max Goesler in Trollope's PHINEAS FINN and PHINEAS REDUX. Phineas has found himself an independent, intelligent, beautiful and economically self-sufficient lover in Victorian England, a time when the forces of society were all ranged against such a woman.
Joe Kelley
A novel about a bull-headed, hard-charging, educational reformer who turns a high school around, wins the affection of most of the student body, and makes some very dangerous enemies along the way.
Joe Kelley
By contemplating on significant events in life and by imagining how I would re-do them if I had a chance.
Joe Kelley
The idea for REBECCA SCOTT was a long time brewing. There were so many mystery novels with superficial characters whose primary function was to serve the plot, that I began to approach a novel from the other way around. The plot, of course, was important, but what if the characters, especially the female and male leads, came together and developed relationships that went beyond the mystery or crime or romance novel. There was nothing original about this idea, of course, as writers like Ruth Rendell and Patricia Highsmith have done it as a matter of course. But for me, it was a way of getting going, breaking out of the mold and trying to make my writing more interesting and different.
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