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What a treat! Today's guest author, Anne Perry, is the New York Times bestselling author of two acclaimed series set in Victorian England: the William Monk novels and the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels. She's also written a series featuring Thomas and Charlotte Pitt's son, Daniel, including One Fatal Flaw and Death with a Double Edge; the Elena Standish series, including Death in Focus and A Question of Betrayal; five World War I novels; nineteen holiday novels, most recently A Christmas Legacy; and a historical novel, The Sheen on the Silk, set in the Byzantine Empire. Anne Perry lives in Los Angeles.
For more from Anne Perry, follow her on Facebook at @AnnePerryAuthor. Or contact her at [email protected]
Anne's brand new book is A Darker Reality, part of the Elena Standish popular historical mystery series: A personal trip turns perilous for Elena Standish after the murder of a British spy forces her to face dark family secrets in this exciting 1930s mystery.
Anne is giving away 5 copies of A Darker Reality. Send an email to: [email protected] and you could be one of the five lucky winners.
Please welcome author Anne Perry...
Imagination is one of the wonderful gifts. I can close my eyes and be anywhere, even real or not. There are no limits, and the weather is whoever I want. Autumn when the leaves are yellow, bronze, scarlet into crimson. The smell of woodsmoke is in the air. Or late summer when the harvest is in and the fields are stubble gold.
My favorite is late spring when the wild pear trees are in bloom overhead and the ground is carpeted with bluebells in bloom so thick on the ground you cannot move without treading on them.
Or the beach at dawn as the sun lights the sea...there is no end. And it takes no price, no packing, no papers, no trouble getting back home.
Or, of course, imagination can add other things! It is pretty good at the terrible as well. There you have to be careful. Depends on what frightens you most. I have a horror of spiders. Very common, and considering some of them are very poisonous, quite rational. But not when you see them even when they are not there. Be careful your brilliant imagination does not rule you, instead of the other way round!
If you are writing a horror story, step slowly. Let things creep from the ordinary to the extraordinary inch by inch! Everything seems as normal, only half an inch off. Then the horror creeps until it is at last unavoidable! And you begin to fight it! Find your own weapons, face your fear.
And sleep for a week with the light on!
And you can imagine people. That can be the most difficult, especially heroes. There can be no growth, no victory if there is no weakness to overcome, no inner victory over faults. In fact, hate to say it, but no real story.
But all possibilities are there! Take us all into your world!
-- Anne Perry
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* Congratulations to the winners of Pembrick's Creaturepedia by guest author Andrew Peterson: Jessica C., Angie G. and Christina T.
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