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My Partner in Crime? |
Hello, Musers!
Well, this is our last March Sunday. The famous 'they' say
we're now into Spring, but I think someone better tell the weather. Still, it
is nice to know we've reached the end of the long winter tunnel.
Everything is starting to bud and feel new. New
energies...spring cleaning, anyone? Maybe even new stories. Which is the lead
into this week's musings:
If you could write with any author...famous or not, living
or dead...who would you team up with?
Now, Lea would tell you I would probably write with the
author(s) of Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys. The hubby might say Louis L'Amour.
But I there's something about Mickey Spillane. Hey, why not all of them...and
toss Shakespeare in there, too.
Homer?
PAULINE
(P.M) GRIFFIN, author
I can think of three without even having to ponder:
J.R.R. Tolkien
C.S. Lewis
Andre Norton -- I've written in her universes but I never
had the privilege of collaborating with her.
LESLEY FIELD, new HOT
author
If I could team up with an author on a historical novel I
would love that to be "Sarah MacLean." If it was a contemporary novel then I would
choose "Susan Mallery," "Sarah Morgan," or "Debbie Macomber."
JEAN
HART STEWART, author
Good idea, Chris, but not for me. I tried it once and it was
a chore and I didn't really like the result, although my team mate was an
excellent writer.
K.C.
SPRAYBERRY, author
Without a doubt, I’d love to team up with Robert Jordan.
Imagine the discussions we could have about how create a world as in-depth and
interesting as the one he created for the Wheel of Time series.
I had to think about this one a little bit. Probably the
author I would like to team up to write with would be Judy Blume. She and I
write YA and I have always liked her writing style. But also I might want to
write with Paula Danziger, who also wrote with Judy Blume and who was my
mentor.
SUSAN
LEONA FISHER, author
I’d choose Georgette Heyer. I’d love to examine her copious
shelf of reference books and, with her help of course, to have a go at setting
a historical romance in the regency period.
ROSEMARY
MORRIS, author
I would like to meet Georgette Heyer, I fell in love with
her historical fiction as a teenager when I borrowed her novels from a next
door neighbor, who subscribed to a book club. From time to time, I re-read
them. They give me as much pleasure now as they did in the past.
DAWN KNOX, author
The author I would have loved to have teamed up with is
Terry Pratchett, who sadly died a short while ago. He is my favourite author
and I am in awe of his imagination and the characters and worlds he brings to
life. My current work in progress is set in an absurd world where garden gnomes
run riot and I would have loved some input and advice from the man who I
consider the master.
J.Q.
ROSE, author
I'd like to team up with Janet Evanovich. She writes the
best characters and has such a great sense of humor in her stories. We'd
probably laugh through every word we put on the page.
CHUCK
BOWIE, author
Which author would I want to pair up with? The authors I
would choose would eat me up whole! Stephen King would be fun. James Patterson
would make me rich. Louise Penny would challenge me--heck, they ALL would
challenge me. But it would be so fun. (My fourth novel, the one I’m currently
immersed in, is the first novel I am working on with a partner. My wife is
contributing strongly to the plot and character elements.)
G.L.
(GWEN) MILLER, author
I would like to team up with Grace Livingston Hill. I enjoy her portrayals of the best that is in
people, the way we ought to live—more evident, of course, because of some of
the worst in people e. Maybe that’s why
they linger so long in my memory. And
such a prolific writer! I have read…and
reread…many, many books from a young age on.
Yet I remember very few of the authors’ names. Some of my books I reread just because the
book is there and I feel like reading.
But when I choose one I really want to reread, it’s usually hers.
Thanks for joining us and see you next week!
If you have a question or comment you’d like
us to muse upon, do not hesitate to contact me Christine
Steeves-Speakman at MuseChrisChat@gmail.com