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Michael Connelly
Guests / November 5, 2007

Michael Connelly Originally uploaded by freshfiction Oh, shucks, we missed Harry Bosch! He couldn’t come to the Texas Book Festival — but Michael DConnelly — yup under those shades — was able to read, take questions and sign his books.!! Woo Hoo we got one for Fresh Fiction. Visit FreshFiction.com to learn more about books and authors.

Alyssa Day | When Characters Run Wild
Guests / November 5, 2007

Here’s a little secret that not a lot of non-writers realize: Authors are not always in control of their characters. Some of us are rarely in control, which makes for the occasional difficult conversation with our editors. For example: Me: Um, about that synopsis. It doesn’t actually bear any resemblance to the finished book. You’re good with that, right? Editor: (long-suffering sigh) Well, I’m kind of used to that with you . . . I can’t help it. It’s not like I consciously set out to drive my poor editor nuts. It’s just that I’m happily writing along, following my lovely plotted-out outline (yes, I plot, I love to plot, I outline, I describe scenes, sometimes I even include snippets of what I think at the time is wickedly brilliant dialogue), and then when I start to write . . . Most of it ends up in the recycling bin. When I was writing ATLANTIS AWAKENING (coming to stores near you November 6th!), I had an especially tough time with this. You see, I fell victim to one of the other problems that can strike unsuspecting authors, usually with no warning: The “I know too much about my characters” syndrome….