Here I Am!
This is my first foray into blogging on Goodreads. I post to a shared group blog, Girlfriends Book Club (http://girlfriendbooks.blogspot.com/) but I'm looking forward to blogging here, too, to stay connected with fellow bibliophiles. And also to keep a journal of sorts about my new venture, the launch of a cozy mystery series. After having written a gazillion (give or take) romances and women's fiction novels, I'm trying something new. I had a lot of fun writing Dead Ball
, book one in the Lainie Lovett Still Kicking mystery series, and I hope readers have a lot of fun reading it.
So...here we go!
, book one in the Lainie Lovett Still Kicking mystery series, and I hope readers have a lot of fun reading it.So...here we go!
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Feb 20, 2014 04:36PM
One big difference between writing romances and writing mysteries is that with romances, you know what your basic plot will be, right from the start: a hero, a heroine, conflict, resolution, true love, happy ending. With a mystery, there isn't just a hero and a heroine. There's a hero OR a heroine (your detective; in my case, it's a heroine) and a whole lot of other characters who may be good or evil or a mix of both. Writing a romance is like juggling two balls. Writing a mystery is like juggling twenty.
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My mother is reading DEAD BALL now. She called me up and said, "I didn't know you could write mysteries!" I said, "I didn't know I could write them, either--until I wrote one."
"It's fabulous," she said. (Well, she's my mother.) "How did you know you could kill a person with a nail gun?"
"I did research, Mom."
"I was wondering. Because really, why would you know anything about nail guns? You've never built a house."
This is true. But thanks to the internet, I did not have to build a house to learn everything I needed to know about nail guns for DEAD BALL.
