Richard Bell

Richard Bell asked Lisa Shiroff:

Do your characters come from people you know? I found your page semi-randomly. I attempt to write humor also.

Lisa Shiroff Hi Richard! Sorry for taking so long to respond. I just now found this. But anyway, that's actually hard to answer. But I never intentionally set out to create a particular character. They just kind of come to me. Sometimes I think they are unconscious mish-mashes of people I know. But at other times, I worry about what's going on in my brain that it could come up with people like that (those characters often don't make it onto the page for an audience to read about).

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So, I just finished Big Trouble and enjoyed it. I have Revenge Café on my FL mystery list and look forward to reading it. I realized that when you recommended your book I'd responded with a half written reply- I'd just went through dental surgery that day and... But I had, or thought I had, sent the whole paragraph and when I just saw my skimpy reply, I thought- "Lisa must think I'm a dimwit! Have to end this with a ?

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