All in the Family

LIFE: Do family and friends and their lives become fodder for your stories and, if so, do they ever recognize themselves and complain?

I just read this question out loud to my husband. He said "No." Then thought, laughed, and amended it to "No, we don't because we're morons."

To be fair, two of the three times I've slotted a family member straight into a novel it was as a tribute after their death. 

In THE BURRY MAN'S DAY (Dandy Gilver No.2) I put my Godmother and aunt Doreen McPherson (nee...