5/21/2023 0 Comments Lum by Libby WareWe both like creating and developing characters. Libby’s style is more spare, using short, quick descriptors. Her style is more atmospheric and detailed. Neither of us plots everything out with a detailed outline. Other authors-and we’re among them-create what we hope is a seamless narrative, so that readers can’t tell which part was written by which author. Tom Franklin and Beth Ann Fennelly used the same technique in The Tilted World. Marge Piercy and her husband Ira Wood did this in Storm Warning, with Piercy writing a chapter from the woman character’s point of view, and her husband writing from the man’s. When we say that we write mystery novels together, often the first question people ask is-how do we write? What’s our process?Īuthors who write together have different approaches. They are part of the Molly and Emma Booksellers Mystery Series. We have now written one bibliomystery ( MURDER AT THE ESTATE SALE, published by Black Opal Books on August 15, 2020), and we’re completing our second (MURDER AT THE BOOK FAIR). When we decided to write a mystery together, we both wanted it to be a bibliomystery-a mystery in which a book or books would be central to the story. We exhibit at Antiquarian Book Fairs and have gotten to know book dealers, among them some interesting characters. We also love collecting and selling antiquarian and rare books. We, Charlene Ball and Libby Ware, both love to read mystery novels.
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