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Why Gil Miller Wrote SPREE
In a nutshell: to have fun. Of course, there’s more to it than that. There always is, isn’t there? I fell into writing crime fiction accidentally but honestly. I’d read crime fiction for some time before realizing that’s what I was reading. I thought I was just reading thrillers—which in a sense I was—but…
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Why Staci Troilo Wrote the Medici Protectorate Series
Hi, everyone. Thanks for inviting me here today, Pauline. If you’ll indulge me, I’d like to talk about my Medici Protectorate novels and how they came to be. Are any of you lucky enough to have a grandfather as wonderful as mine was? I hope so. Mine was my hero. My grandfather emigrated from Italy…
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Why Andrew Butters Wrote Bent But Not Broken
When a family is dealt a gut punch as hard as the one we were, you learn a few things about yourselves in the process. For us, the punch that knocked the wind out of our lungs was a diagnosis of severe idiopathic scoliosis for Avery, our eleven-year-old daughter and big sister to AJ, our…
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Why Dusty Richards Wrote Texas Blood Feud
Like most of my book projects, I started writing it years before driving west across the country to do some research. Doc Sonichson (probably) didn’t spell it right but we talked a lot about Texas feuds when we got the chance at WWA conventions. He taught western history at the University of Arizona. Never…
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Why Mandy Jarvis Wrote Snapshots
Why I wrote this book? That’s not necessarily a difficult question, maybe just a difficult explanation. At first, it was really for me, a cathartic way to heal after the various struggles and trials I had endured. Then I found I wanted to share my own personal experiences. I began to realize I did not…
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Why Anne Louise Bannon Wrote A Ring for a Second Chance
I love Pauline’s basic question – why did I write this? The easy answer is at the heart of everything I write, namely, that the freaking characters won’t let me alone. My head can be a noisy place at times. So why did these characters stick with me and not some others? Why did these…
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Why Veronica Scott Wrote The Fated Stars
Thanks for having me as a repeat guest! It’s always an essential part of my new release ritual to come to your lovely blog and talk about why I wrote the book! When you and I co-organized the Pets In Space 1 anthology in 2016, I had the inspiration for a story with an…
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Why Karen McCullough Wrote Hunter’s Quest
I wrote the first draft of Hunter’s Quest almost twenty years ago. It was written in response to a call from a publisher for a specific type of book. It made it through two rounds of editorial cuts, but not the final one because it was deemed not exactly what was wanted for the new…
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Why Veronica Scott Wrote Star Cruise Songbird
It’s always such a pleasure to visit your blog and explain the influences that contributed to how I wrote a newly released book or story! In fact, this process is so much fun I sometimes find myself thinking while writing a book, “Oh, I’ll have to tell Pauline about this.” I’ve always wanted to write…