Ask the Author: Rhoda Baxter
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Rhoda Baxter
I'd love to go Hogwarts. Who doesn't want to have magical abilities?!
what would I do there? I'm afraid I'd go a bit Hermione Granger and study, study, study until I knew lots of spells and could do all sorts of cool things.
Tell you where I'd hate to go - Alice's Wonderland. So unpredictable. I'd be a total gibbering wreck within minutes.
what would I do there? I'm afraid I'd go a bit Hermione Granger and study, study, study until I knew lots of spells and could do all sorts of cool things.
Tell you where I'd hate to go - Alice's Wonderland. So unpredictable. I'd be a total gibbering wreck within minutes.
Rhoda Baxter
Ooh, this is a tricky question. It really depends on which book I've just finished reading. I spent ages thinking about this and I think the answer has to be Anne of Green Gables and Gilbert Blythe. Firstly, I love a friends to lovers plot. Who better to fall in love with than someone you already know well? Secondly, you feel the genuine warmth between them, even after several years when they've been through all kinds of horrors together, their love remains, gentle, unassuming and all pervasive. What's not to love. How about you? Which couple would you choose?
Rhoda Baxter
Odd ideas come to me from time to time. I have a file on my computer marked 'random ideas and bits'. Into this go any scraps of ideas, any half remembered dreams, links to interesting news stories. Whatever catches my eye, really. If it caught my eye, it's because something in that idea/story/article chimed with something in my subconscious. Next year, when I'm trying to think about what to write, I'll go through all the scraps and see what ideas I can tease out and develop into a plot.
Rhoda Baxter
The next book. Always the next book.
I've submitted the third book in the series that started with Girl on The Run to Choc Lit for consideration. Girl in Trouble is about fiercely independent Olivia and Walter, who is trying desperately to hold onto his contact with his daughter.
My next book, Please Release Me, should be coming out in ebook next month.
I've submitted the third book in the series that started with Girl on The Run to Choc Lit for consideration. Girl in Trouble is about fiercely independent Olivia and Walter, who is trying desperately to hold onto his contact with his daughter.
My next book, Please Release Me, should be coming out in ebook next month.
Rhoda Baxter
The inspiration for my next book (Please Release Me) actually came to me in a dream! Cliche or what.
I woke up with an image of two women sitting next to each other, not entirely comfortable in each other's company. One woman was translucent and wearing a wedding dress. These women eventually became Grace, the heroine and Sally, the hero's wife.
Sally is a ghost and only Grace can see her. Grace is in love with Sally's husband. The women need each other to an extent, and they get on quite well if it weren't for the 'both wanting the same man' thing. The best description for their relationship is probably 'frenemies'.
I woke up with an image of two women sitting next to each other, not entirely comfortable in each other's company. One woman was translucent and wearing a wedding dress. These women eventually became Grace, the heroine and Sally, the hero's wife.
Sally is a ghost and only Grace can see her. Grace is in love with Sally's husband. The women need each other to an extent, and they get on quite well if it weren't for the 'both wanting the same man' thing. The best description for their relationship is probably 'frenemies'.
Rhoda Baxter
Keep writing. If you write, you're on exactly 'aspiring', you're doing. Writers write.
Every book you write, you will improve.
Also, submit, submit, submit (even if this means submitting manuscripts to your editors before you self publish).
So keep going, keep going and eventually, the good stuff will happen.
Every book you write, you will improve.
Also, submit, submit, submit (even if this means submitting manuscripts to your editors before you self publish).
So keep going, keep going and eventually, the good stuff will happen.
Rhoda Baxter
Being read! We write because we feel driven to. I would probably write even if noone was reading, but the buzz when someone talks about your characters because they came alive to them... that's incredible.
Also, my writer friends are really nice and I get to work sitting in bed. That's cool too.
Also, my writer friends are really nice and I get to work sitting in bed. That's cool too.
Rhoda Baxter
Chocolate. To be honest, I deal with most things by eating chocolate. You mean apart from that?
Sometimes I try working on a different project. Mostly though, I just keep writing. Sure, most of what I churn out in the middle of a block is going to be rubbish, but eventually, things will click back into place. Once that happens, I can go back and edit the rubbish out.
Sometimes I try working on a different project. Mostly though, I just keep writing. Sure, most of what I churn out in the middle of a block is going to be rubbish, but eventually, things will click back into place. Once that happens, I can go back and edit the rubbish out.
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