Ask the Author: Rita Lee Chapman
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Rita Lee Chapman
Hi H. Thanks for your kind comments and for your interest in being a guest author on my website. Yes, I'd be pleased to interview you. I've sent you the questions.
Rita Lee Chapman
My favourite fictional couple would have to be Meggie and Father Ralph de Bricassart in The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough. I still get goose bumps thinking about their love.
Rita Lee Chapman
Hi Anna. There wasn't an incident as such, but I was blown away by the Valley of the Kings. It is so - I hesitate to use the word 'desolate', but it is a world on its own. The Valley is unique and mysterious and yet quite peaceful. When I was trying to decide what to write, my visit to Egypt made me think that this was the perfect country in which to set a mystery.
Rita Lee Chapman
I'm a pretty fast typist so it's not long for me! In fact I usually sit down to the computer to write with no idea in my mind where the story is going and it writes itself!
Rita Lee Chapman
Hi Alexandar. I think most authors would agree that comedy would be the hardest genre to write in - unless you are a comedian by profession.
Rita Lee Chapman
I have a vivid imagination and wild dreams!
Rita Lee Chapman
Seeing your work in print in paperback form.
Rita Lee Chapman
I wanted to write something that would appeal to men as well as women and everyone likes a mystery. I am an avid reader so I suppose stories I have read and TV series I have watched must have an effect.
Rita Lee Chapman
I'm writing a mystery this time and of course marketing is almost a full-time occupation.
Rita Lee Chapman
Just do it! Now that you can self-publish everyone can see their words in print. One other piece of advice we all learn the hard way - edit, edit and edit again.
Rita Lee Chapman
I sit down at the computer and resolve to write a page about something and the story tends to write itself!
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