Before I started my WIP, I did a lot of thinking about my main character’s greatest fear. My WIP is a gothic novel, so I decided I wanted a fear that would be particularly pervasive in that sort of story-you know, genre expectations and all that stuff.

I also decided to take my main character’s fear one step further. I’m trying to make the fear ( Read more... )

Today I was valuing a stack of Saturday Evening Posts from the early 1900's when I came across this cover. The main character in my WIP is the daughter of an antique dealer. I suspect if she could, she'd step back in time and be this cover-girl.


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As some of you know, I’m an antique dealer as well as a florist. Sometimes I buy things which really give me the urge to write a story. This morning, I came across a box full of 1960’s knitting and crocheting books.  Man, do I want to write a story where people get to wear these outfits!


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