http://rebeccacantrell.com Hannah Vogel mystery series Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:58:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My favorite superhero? The Tick. Hands down. For those of you who aren’t familiar with him, The Tick was a cartoon that ran on Saturday mornings on Fox in the 90s. Even though I was a grownup by then (I owned my own car, house, and cat), I still got up ... http://rebeccacantrell.com/2010/03/09/favorite-superhero/ What is your writing beverage of choice? My beverage of choice: Iced Soy Chai. My favorite chais are Tazo and Stash, plus whatever they use for the vanilla chai up at the Aloha Theater in Kainaliu. Sadly, they’re not open all morning or I’d be up there sucking down vanilla chais ... http://rebeccacantrell.com/2010/02/08/writing-beverage-of-choice/ “Tell us how you feel about genre vs. literary,” says a reassuring voice with a light Viennese accent. The lights are dim. The Persian rug on the floor is red with an elaborate pattern of what look like flowers. The chaise is oxblood leather. The patient shifts on the chaise. “I feel ... http://rebeccacantrell.com/2010/01/26/genre-vs-literary/ What’s your favorite scene your editor asked you to cut? OK, who of us has NOT been looking forward this question? We finally get to pull out that stuff we always wanted to show. I tend to write in a skeletal form and add layers, so my edits are more of ... http://rebeccacantrell.com/2010/01/05/the-death-i-never-got-to-finish/ If you couldn't write, what would your creative outlet be? As a writer, I love telling stories with words. Taking that away would be very difficult for me. Assuming I had to do something else, I would tell stories with pictures and sounds. I would be a film director. I haven’t ... http://rebeccacantrell.com/2009/12/22/writing-or-directing/ What big name author is enough to get you to a conference? By Rebecca Cantrell I thought I was going to be the first curmudgeon of the week, but CJ beat me to it. She’s right though. I don’t go to conferences hoping to meet big name authors. Not that I’m not ... http://rebeccacantrell.com/2009/11/24/why-i-go-to-conferences/ If you were to write a nonfiction book, what would your topic be? As a technical writer I wrote literally thousands of nonfiction pages. I mean, I thought they were nonfiction while I was writing them, or that they would one day be nonfiction. Because I wrote about products long before ... http://rebeccacantrell.com/2009/11/17/the-biography-i-want-to-read/ What fictional attorney would you hire to represent you if you ever get caught? I’d go straight for Perry Mason. He’s never lost a case, and I like that track record. He’s definitely gotten defendants out of tighter pinches than the one I’d be in. It’ll be stressful as I sit in ... http://rebeccacantrell.com/2009/11/02/dream-team-perry-mason-or-paul-drake/ Here's my blog post on it on the New York Times parenting blog: http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/parenting-can-make-you-better-at-work/?scp=1&sq=rebecca%20cantrelll&st=cse Somebody had to say it: parenting is a lot of fun! http://rebeccacantrell.com/2009/10/24/mothering-fiction-how-being-a-mother-made-me-a-better-writer/ Which character would I spin off from my series? by Rebecca Cantrell Finally a question that gives historical writers an unfair advantage! I can jump forward in time, so I can spin off even the children. And that’s just whom I would pick. In A TRACE OF SMOKE, Hannah comes across an ... http://rebeccacantrell.com/2009/10/06/spinning-off-characters/