Ask the Author: Nancy Young
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Nancy Young
Enroll in Hogwarts.
Nancy Young
This year, The Only Good Indians,
Sisters, Someone Like Me, Jane Austen: A Life, Mansfield Park, and The Woman in Cabin Ten. I'm an eclectic reader.
Sisters, Someone Like Me, Jane Austen: A Life, Mansfield Park, and The Woman in Cabin Ten. I'm an eclectic reader.
Nancy Young
He's too big to be begging candy, she thought as she proffered the bowl of fun-size bars. It took her hand instead.
Nancy Young
When I lived on an isolated mountain road, I once volunteered as a literacy tutor. After the first session, the male student showed up without an appointment. I thought there had been miscommunication. Then I saw his car hidden in the corn rows the next day. When I called the literacy council, it turned out he'd recently been released from prison for rape and was only supposed to be paired with male tutors and meet in a public space.
Nancy Young
My favorite fictional couple is from "Far from the Madding Crowd." Gabriel Oak and Bathsheba Everdene find a steadfast love at last, but only after Bathsheba experiences life enough to know that his love is the right one. I literally sigh at his picture of marital bliss: "And at home by the fire, whenever you look up, there I shall be -- and whenever I look up there will be you."
Nancy Young
I'm fortunate enough to belong to a writers' group, so I can talk out ideas. Having set deadlines always helps too.
Nancy Young
Sharing the worlds and people I create and staying at home in my yoga pants to create them.
Nancy Young
Know the market and write books you would want to read. Develop your computer skills too!
Nancy Young
I just finished the sequel to Seeing Things. In Hearing Things, Mary Catherine and D.J. stumble across a ghost at an abandoned rest stop. The relationship between Tony and Mary Catherine develops, and we hear Tony's point of view as well as hers. I'm also working on something completely different--a spinoff of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility that traces the improbable romance between two minor characters, cheerful Charlotte and irascibleThomas ( who's played by Hugh Laurie in the movie).
Nancy Young
This will sound weird, but when I'm running, my mind's free to plot and develop characters and debate different scenarios.
Nancy Young
Have you ever watched one of those ghost-hunting shows? The ones where somebody says, DId you see that?" and the camera pans too late, catching . . . .nothing but darkness? Seeing Things developed when I put a sassy, reluctant "sensitive" together with a geek who's debunking haunted houses.
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