Character Connection

Want to listen to this post instead? Check out the YouTube version. In my forthcoming novel, As Though You Were Mine, my main character, Julie, is confronted with the death of her brother and sister-in-law. When my agent at the time and I sent it around to various editors, we initially received consistent feedback that…

Character: It’s All About the Motivation

  When my middle child was little, maybe about three years old, he would join in on a card game with my oldest and me, called “Rat-a-Tat Cat”. The goal was to have the lowest sum of numbers at the end. The higher numbered cards like seven, eight, and nine had pictures of rats on…