You have to have a stout heart to be an author. I can’t speak for others, but my characters all like to complain. I mean, I give them a voice the world can hear, and what do they do? They blame me for being a busybody and telling their secrets all over town. I never get an “atta boy”, only a string of “about time you got it right”.   Take Ed Landry, for example. He loves to complain about how that trouble seems to seek him out, and how his desire to help others always gets him into hot...