Suzi (Obsessive Reading Disorder) asked Cole McCade:

Cole, One of the joys of reading for me is being able to visualize the characters and scenes in my head. It's often why book to movies don't do well--everyone has a different perception. What do you most often base your character development on? visual--a picture or real person's physical characteristics; personality traits, plot, the voices that scream loudest in your head??

Cole McCade Unfulfilled desires--and I don't just mean sexual. I think that just about everyone in their lives has an unanswered question inside them, a path they didn't take, something they wish they'd done or something they wish they'd had the courage to do. Maybe even a situation they weren't able to salvage, something bad that happened in their lives that they wished they could have averted. It creates a longing inside people, and I build characters from those longings. From those unanswered questions. One unanswered question can become a person, once you add a name and a personality and appearance, things that layer on together and sort of crystallize all at once around that single unanswered question. That question tends to be what drives their story, and makes them who they are.

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