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I don’t know about you readers, but I love to put an author’s face with her work. To find out more about Barbara and her growing list of work click on her picture above. Now back to our interview:

LMReviews: So many novels just focus on the conflict, do you consider yourself a trailblazer in being able to depict cultural characters in multi-genre works with such authenticity?

BK: Each story I write, I create a notes files for background and world-building information. Then I do extensive research in order to make the story as realistic as possible. I’m a research junkie. I enjoy the process of digging up information and then weaving it into a story to create detailed characters and the worlds they live in.

LM: Your website shows pictures of dolls you created to represent the
characters from one of your books, is this a practice you still employ?
This is an interesting technique, how did it come about?

BK: One of my early critique partners like to create dolls.
She designed and made those dolls for me, for a reasonable fee.
Since then, we’ve lost touch with each other over the years and I haven’t
contracted any new dolls from after she created those first three dolls of
Cait, Indio and Tiny from the last two books in my Sidhe series.

LM: How do your plots develop?

BK: I’m a pantser.  I start with the bare bones story idea and as I write it out
my characters become alive for me.

LM: You’re attention to sensory details is laser sharp, is that something that develops over many drafts or are you always thinking about the senses
as you write?

BK: After I write the first draft,  I carefully revise and rewrite the next two to three drafts, layering in the details and fleshing that bare bones idea into a complex plot.

LM: That is amazing Barbara. I wrote my first book as a pantser and this second book I’m working on as a plotter. I’m still trying to learn to let it flow in the first draft but that crazy critic in me is trying to hard to layer and sharpen as I write. As any writer knows find what works is a process.

Well, we’ll continue with more insight into Barbara’s writing life tomorrow. Thank you so much for all the great information you’ve provided so far, Barbara!

We’ll chat with you tomorrow. If you haven’t entered the Thanksgiving book giveaway with Hachette Books, check the Win Books link at the top of this page. Also visit Barbara’s page by clicking her picture to see all of her great works.

Until tomorrow…

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