You might think Hobbitbotherer is a strange name. It was coined by my husband John when I was going through a very Lord of the Rings phase. Reading the books, watching the films and finding out what other films the actors were in! We had always thought of one day going to New Zealand and having seen some of the wonderful scenery in the films, it made us want to visit even more and we decided to go for it after all. Our trip is what inspired the book, New Zealand with a Hobbit Botherer, a funny romp through the wonderful land of Aotera (Land of the Long White Cloud) while poor John had to put up with me wanting to trek to all the film locations!
I read lots of different genres, so I guess that sometimes translates into my writing. I never sit down and write a book by deciding on the genre first. Normally it's the characters who appear in my mind first, although not usually named until much later! I love the history of names and usually try and find names that suit them, rather than just pick a name out of the air. Ideas come from everywhere and I have so many ideas going around in my head that if I didn't write them down I'd go mad.
I love books and I love reading, our house is overflowing with books so I've been trying to read more ebooks than paper ones recently. I don't care what method it is, I love a good story whether it's on a computer screen or on a dead tree.
At the moment my Muse has been kidnapped and the ransom is to write Harry Potter fanfic but I have a few more ideas for some original work which I will be getting back to soon.
Shutterspeed
I have started this one and it will probably be a suspense or thriller novel, although I just write what the characters want as I go along.
The Guardians or The Chosen
This will be my first foray into writing fantasy although I have read a lot of it. At the moment I don't have individual titles, but I have a few in mind. It will probably be a trilogy, but I need to do a lot more planning and research before I get that far.
Films:
- Lord of the Rings Trilogy
- Harry Potter films
- Moulin Rouge!
- Dead Poets' Society
- Beautiful Thing
Music/Artists:
- Meat Loaf
- Enya
- Snow Patrol
- The Killers
- Razorlight
Books favourite genres:
- Fantasy/SF
- Horror
- Suspense/Thriller
- Gay themes
- Romance/Erotica