Goodreads asked Michele Poague:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Michele Poague Meeting new characters. I often go so far as to find pictures on the Internet that resemble my characters. They come to life in my mind and each one has a story. While writing Ransom, book three of The Healing Crystal trilogy, I needed an ambitious female character to make a play for power. I wrote the background outline for Ensaris and set her in play. By the fifth or sixth chapter, she totally wimped out on me. She kept telling me a Family Mediator wouldn’t think that way or do those things. Try as I might, she refused to be power hungry. I had to replace her with a security guard who, to that point, had been very inactive.

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