Ask the Author: Keith Hoare
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Keith Hoare
As a child I'd have loved to go to 'Plagarma', a world I created for children to play in safety and meet others. Then of course I'd like to have moved on with the Dreamstalker to Underground World and Alternate World. All I admit I created, but of course they will always be the best in my mind.
Keith Hoare
I don't believe I've ever been involved with a mystery, although at twenty I used to work in the clubs of Manchester before moving to London and the West End. I was the one repairing and emptying the fruit machines, dealing with the criminal gangs that ran the clubs. Believe me, those were dangerous times, but for a young man exciting and memorable. However, often reality can be sound more like a fiction story and I'd not know where to start.
Keith Hoare
I've fortunately never had writer's block. I suppose I've so much to say, I can't type fast enough. Although to be fair, I don't write a series book one after another, I always do something in-between, in a way to clear the mind.
Keith Hoare
Freedom, a means to express yourself in fiction, you could never do normally. Then at times, smile inwardly to yourself, when someone in conversation overhears you are an author and their immediate reaction is to say they are going to write a book. You like all writers know, that is a very difficult thing to be so flippant about. I admire all writers, because knowing what they have gone through to complete their work.
Keith Hoare
Don't describe your characters beyond the essentials. Give your reader poetic license to expand the characters in their own minds. Then the characters, must have many facets, to be explored, exploited, in every possible way, to make them interesting and yes very real in the reader's mind. Although at no time allow them to go out of character.
Keith Hoare
A crime story based around a run down bingo hall and a petty criminal with ideas to direct the jackpot to his family. How he does it, is fascinating and perfectly feasible in reality. However, his actions open up a fraud of epic proportion and soon his petty crime runs out of control, involving the entire gambling industry. Yet, although fictional, I believe I've made the story so real, so believable, many readers will hesitate, think for a moment, before they buy their next scratch card, play a game of bingo, or gamble online.
Keith Hoare
I think in some ways, for me, it's escapism, from the reality of real life. You are in control of a world, where you can direct lives, decide who succeeds, who lives or dies. Although soon, a touch of reality comes in. I gain affinity to certain characters, in a way protect them and not just the victims, often the perpetrators, I don't want to punish. Sometimes to a point I want to give them another chance, even though I'd created them and maybe in reality they deserve what I had in store for their demise. I suppose that's being human.
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