| Interviews |
| Interviews with Linda Howard herself collected from Harlequin.com, All About Romance and Cresent Blues |
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| LLB: Does your husband read your books? Linda: He's read a few, but he doesn't any more because he got upset reading the violent scenes. He can't separate the books from me. To me, they are totally separate - they are not me, they are themselves. All I'm doing is telling about people as though they are people I have met. It's hard for Gary to separate the imagination from the |
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| from the person. LLB: What was your introduction to romance? What authors, romance or otherwise, do you like to read? Linda: I can't remember if it was Kathleen Woodiwiss or a Harlequin romance. My favorite authors are Iris Johansen, Stephanie Laurens, Mary Balogh, Carla Kelly, new SIM author Fiona Brand, SF/Romance writer S.L. Viehl, Stephen Hunter and John Maxim. If I had to choose a favorite book, I'd go with the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. LLB: Do you have plans for a web site? Linda: I should have one operational within a month. LLB: What are you working on now? When will we see it on sale? Linda: I'm in the thinking process, just barely getting to know the characters for the for the next Pocket hardcover. It'll be on sale next August. LLB: Who are your favorite heroes and heroines besides Sam and Jaine? Linda: Jane and Grant from Midnight Rainbow, Jillian and Ben in Heart of Fire were so much fun it was just unreal. Zane Mackenzie - I absolutely adored him. I really love Maddie in Duncan's Bride. LLB: You have written such a variety of stories - from ranchers and a mail-ordered bride to time travel to psychics and cops - if God told you today that you could only write one type of book in the future, what would you say? Linda: I would say, "Oh God, please don't make me do that!" My interests skip around so much and I call it the God of Writing. This is going to sound so totally weird, but I had written two historicals for Pocket, and my editor at the time, Claire Zion, wanted me to write another one. I didn't have another historical idea - not even a glimmer of one. I wanted to write Dream Man - I already had it in mind. I had gone to UPS and was driving back home, talking out loud to myself, muttering, and I said, "I don't have an historical idea." And this deep voice from beside me said, "What about the healer?" I immediately had the whole plot for The Touch of Fire Immediately. It was either the God of Writing - because it was an external voice beside me, deep and masculine - or there are such things as guardian angels and my guardian angel was riding with me and got tired of listening to me bitch. Interview courtesy of All About Romance |