CarolaOne of the questions writers of fiction hear most often (if not
the most frequent) is "Where do you get your ideas?" I usually give a semi-facetious answer: They're all floating around in the ether and when you're tuned in they just come to you.
Facetious, but as good an explanation as any. I can pinpoint where certain books started. Sometimes I began with a great title:
Styx and Stones, for instance.
Once I had that, it clearly had to be a poisoned-pen story, so the characters, pl...
Published on July 02, 2014 17:27