I have commented before on the way stories and/or individual characters sometimes rebel. I might have a detailed book plan when I start writing, but what do I know? I’m only the author after all. Ultimately, it’s as if the story writes itself and I just do as […]
The ‘Saltbury Chronicles’ have always centered on Hazel Fauld and Tina Burns, but there are so many other wonderful characters hovering in the wings. How did working-class Carol Baxter find herself in a (dysfunctional) relationship with the daughter of an Earl, years before she even met Tina? And […]
Writing a series of novels can be a lot more complex than producing one-off books. The stories can weave round each other. One book might show the same event but from a different perspective to another. Different characters can remember or interpret things in different ways, and so […]
I’ve said it before, but I seldom write my books in the order you will see in the published version. Quite often the ending comes first and then I work out how to get there, writing individual scenes in an almost random order, then gradually reassembling them to […]
Jo Brodie 