![]() Mine was unremarkable in terms of exposure to crime. My childhood was uneventful, but I don’t believe anyone’s first eighteen years of life can be completely humdrum. To be clear, I’m not the product of criminal parents in fact, both my mother and father were extremely law-abiding. Let’s just say bad guys have to have evil intentions, and the story has to be edgy. ![]() The characters have to be in peril or insane. For a story to be exciting, there has to be murder and mayhem – or at least madness. I’m not saying that romance and cozy mysteries aren’t great genres they are, just not for me. For me, there has never been even the slightest possibility of writing a romance or even a cozy mystery. My criminal life takes place on the pages of my books. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now when I say I have an appetite for crime, I’m not confessing to robbing a bank or planning a killing spree. However, when it comes to an understanding of my proclivity for crime, I’m at a bit of a loss. It’s that keen insight into personality types and motivating factors that help when developing characters. To be successful as a writer, I believe one needs to have a knack for understanding human behaviour and what drives individuals to act in certain ways. ![]()
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