The Origins of Dawn Carlisle

Aug 4th, 2008 by Addy | 0

I’d like to tell you that Dawn came fully clad out of the cleft head of Zeus…but that would be avoiding truth in favor of myth. To give you a fair answer, the character of Dawn contains a part of every woman I’ve ever known - from my own mother, to my former wife, down to the wildest tigress I ever dated. And it doesn’t stop there.


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The People Versus

Jun 16th, 2008 by Addy | 0

Tough as a tire iron and proud as a parson in paradise, Jeff Sanders, Private Investigator, was good at his job, always cool and always composed, never rancorous or rattled on the witness stand. Fit at 40, he was a wiz at bending the truth toward the side that hired him, but he never blatantly lied. “No yellow Jellyfish, that Jeff Sanders,” the Chief of Police always said. He should see me now, Jeff thought.


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The Character

May 17th, 2008 by Addy | 0

If readers can\’t identify with, care about, or somehow share the feelings of the characters, despite a perfect plot and poetic prose, the story is likely to bomb. Readers must respond to the characters viscerally, with sympathy or antipathy, early on. Readers want their primitive feelings titillated. They want to feel different

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