What are your five favorite books, and why?
Most of my favourite books are from childhood and get read faithfully every year, but there are a couple of authors that get read religiously whenever new releases appear. The childhood favourites are 'Little Women', 'The Black Riders' by Violet Needham & any book in the James Herriott series. My must read authors are Terry Pratchett, J R Ward, Diana Gabaldon and Nora Roberts. They all come down to the common denominator of strong characterisation and dialogue. Although I love to write romance and adventure, I don't like to add prematurely forced intimacy, either emotional or physical. Having a strong story and characters to tell it is much more important to me than a love scene added just for the sake of it and I like to write scenes and character dialogue exchanges that make me laugh and engage with what I'm creating, something that all of the above writers have taught me.
What do you read for pleasure?
Anything and everything! I love paranormal romance, humour, adventure, boigraphies - whatever takes my fancy basically!
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