tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19207194.post584177531872214046..comments2023-08-09T03:46:23.394-04:00Comments on Kat's Blog: Writing Heroes!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02676691132983882122noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19207194.post-28720625288762263842010-05-14T07:05:01.243-04:002010-05-14T07:05:01.243-04:00Thank you so much, Kat. I'm glad if anything I...Thank you so much, Kat. I'm glad if anything I said or did helped you along the way.<br /><br />The first romance writer I really got hooked on was Jayne Ann Krentz. I love her books. Still buy them as soon as they come out! As a kid, it was The Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew and Trixie Beldon books.N.J.Waltershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18099894498766052188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19207194.post-70922389456773045492010-05-11T19:43:51.820-04:002010-05-11T19:43:51.820-04:00Agatha Chrsite, the genuis of misdirection while p...Agatha Chrsite, the genuis of misdirection while putting everything right out there before you. <br /><br />When I was a girl, I saved my allowance each week because once a month the next Nancy Drew would be released and we'd travel into Newtown, PA. on the appropriate Saturday.<br /><br />While my mother got her hair scorched to within an inch of its frazzled life at her hair dresser's, I walked up to this tiny book store, climbed down the rubber treaded steps into the basement floor and made a beeline to my coveted Carolyn Keene section, grabbed my new yellow hard covered copy, paid my $1.25, zipped back to the bench outside my mother's hairdresser and got lost in Nancy's latest mystery.<br /><br />Such memories are treasures and primed me for one day finding Glenn Kleier and his amazing THE LAST DAY.<br /><br />I love authors...they bring us the world right ehre in our armchairs. =^..^=Linhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13866209826449646004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19207194.post-27450505901949188902010-05-11T19:09:50.380-04:002010-05-11T19:09:50.380-04:00Nothing odd about your picks Cheryl. We all have o...Nothing odd about your picks Cheryl. We all have our favs.:-)<br /><br />I like Agatha Christie too. My favorites are The Man In The Brown Suit and Dead Man's Folly.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02676691132983882122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19207194.post-83532138123161041402010-05-11T09:31:48.487-04:002010-05-11T09:31:48.487-04:00I really don't have a hero but as a child read...I really don't have a hero but as a child read Agatha Christie books because I loved her characters and how she kept you glued to a book and tied in everything at the end.MuseItUp Publishinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03026608500861642781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19207194.post-44337414202850865012010-05-11T09:28:35.363-04:002010-05-11T09:28:35.363-04:00Mine might seem a bit odd, but that's because ...Mine might seem a bit odd, but that's because of the genre I write. Laura Ingalls Wilder and Lucy Maud Montgomery are two of my heroes. <br /><br />Wilder had a keen eye for description. <i>The Long Winter</i>, which is my favorite of all the Little House books, is especially filled with the descriptions of the cold, their hunger, and the struggles they endured during that hard winter in SD. <br /><br />Montgomery's long, flowing, descriptive passages might not be as popular today as when she penned her Anne books, but I still enjoy picturing the many places in Avonlea she shared with readers. <br /><br />In other genres, I admire the work of Stephen King, Karen White, and Michael and Jeff Shaara.<br /><br />CherylCherylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03470069911115912344noreply@blogger.com