The Disappearance of Emily Marr (53 page)
What kind of people are your readers?
The ones who come back for more are people who enjoy an intriguing emotional dilemma and an unpredictable outcome. My characters don’t always get what’s coming to them. Nobody is perfect and everybody is imperfect. Also, the books are emotionally quite honest; I try to write candidly and not to pull any punches. And I like to write about sudden passion because it’s a form of madness and it makes people behave urgently and irrationally.
The feedback I get the most often is ‘I never guessed that would happen’, which always reminds me that however absorbed I get in the writing, the phrasemaking and the polishing, what people want is a story they haven’t read before, which is exactly what I want from a book, too.
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