Ask the Author: Madeleine McLaughlin
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Madeleine McLaughlin
The hairy thing slurped her up and swallowed, giving her the sensation of dying. She did.
Madeleine McLaughlin
Maybe Mars, probably to explore and try to paint the sunrise and sunset and write stories about it.
Madeleine McLaughlin
I've got a lot to do this summer. I'll be a beta reader for a friend, but I hope to get to Charmed, I'm Sure, a book I won at a conference.
Madeleine McLaughlin
Well, a neighbor of my grandmother once gave her some old Edwardian postcards for me to play with. There was one with the hands burnt out and on the back it was written, her hands were burned. Well, my friend and I came up with plot after plot about the mystery of the card and why her hands were burnt on both the card and in the writing. While not exactly 'from my life' I do remember that incident specifically.
Madeleine McLaughlin
Catherine and Heathcliff because they're so right for each other and yet because of their own stupidity, they never really find each other. The reader gets to 'see' their mistake and apply it to real life by asking, am I really doing the right thing?
Madeleine McLaughlin
I always friend anyone who asks because I feel if they ask then they want to connect with me. I consider it a compliment and I like people.
Madeleine McLaughlin
I get to make up my own realities but also, I get to hear from people who read them.
Madeleine McLaughlin
Stick with it. Write what you love. You like historical fiction? Write historical fiction.
Madeleine McLaughlin
I'm working on a supernatural detective story. It's in the critique stage right now.
Madeleine McLaughlin
I got my idea from two main sources. One, my reading of Chinese history and also travelers accounts from the Victorian age. Two, from the classic Victorian novels dealing with the sufferings of orphans.
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