I could see that the romance genre was growing in popularity and selling well, but I couldn’t get there. My …
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I can’t kill a main character
I know, call me soft, but I hate when a main character dies. When Matthew Reilly killed of a certain …
Was the Prime Minister a spy?
Imagine hearing that Prime Minister Scott Morrison was missing, suspected drowned. Well no one panic, he’s not … but that …
Do action heroes have parents?
A funny thing happens when you are writing scenes for your characters; they appear as though born into the world …
If you foresaw the Holocaust, would you kill Hitler?
You know what he plans to do, you know how he plans to do it. If you had the chance …
The ghosts of our childhood
It probably wasn’t haunted, but when I was a kid growing up in Toowoomba, Australia, there was a huge, derelict …
When place is a character
Well over a decade ago (before I wrote my first book) I had the good fortune of going to a …
Naming a character and other tough decisions
Okay, it’s not like you are naming your first-born, but it might as well be. That name you choose must …
The agony of love
If he doesn’t feel the same, I am going to be in a world of pain. I want her so …
Do film images on book covers limit our imagination?
It is a truth universally acknowledged by book lovers (with apologies to Jane Austen) that it is always best to …