![]() ![]() I do a few weeks of research on the main points, and then I dive into the story to see where I want it to go. I don’t travel to my settings for research-I rely on history books, novels, and diaries from the period as well as newspapers and magazines from the time. Your stories have such evocative settings and a real sense of place-do you ever travel to locations for research? Do you lean toward heavy research prior to writing, or do you prefer to fill in gaps as you go? I was 11 or 12-entirely too young to read Stephen King, which is why I grew up to be a warped writer! I think that first book was Christine, though I stole and read all of his others as fast as I could. Stealing my first Stephen King book from my older brother’s bookshelf. What first sparked your interest in the supernatural? Kitty had a lot of backbone, and she wasn’t always sweetness and light. I think if I had to pick one, it would be Jo, followed by Kitty Weekes in Silence for the Dead. I dearly love Jo Manders in Lost Among the Living, partly because I adore Alex so much, and she is so perfect for him. Of your heroines thus far, who is your personal favorite and why? I wanted to know who she was and how she got there, and the story just took off from there. ![]() I make them up! The Broken Girls, for example, started with an idea of a body found in a well. When plotting your books, do you take inspiration from established ghost stories and particular events or weave the story from whole cloth? ![]()
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