All Blog Posts Tagged 'choosing' (4)

A proper English tea rounds off my final talk of 2013 to the lovely audience at Sandhurst Library

A visit to the newly refurbished Sandhurst Library in Bracknell Forest on 4 December was the perfect way to finish a busy year of talks and public appearances in 2013. Not only were the audience lovely and packed with some die hard DI Andy Horton fans but after my talk about murder, crime and bodies there was a gorgeous English tea complete with cucumber sandwiches, scones with jam and cream,…

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Added by Pauline Rowson on December 6, 2013 at 7:51pm — No Comments

Pauline Rowson on choosing names for characters in crime novels

Getting the right name for characters in my crime fiction novels can be a tricky business. Sometimes they come to me completely out of the blue, as I am creating a character, other times I will struggle to find the name that best suits that particular character and until I do the personality refuses to come fully alive. The name has to fit. If it's not right then the character isn't right. The name also needs to fit with the age and nationality although you can have…

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Added by Pauline Rowson on November 19, 2012 at 7:31pm — 2 Comments

A Q and A list of articles by Pauline Rowson, author of the DI Horton series of crime novels and thrillers

Here is a list of articles about my writing and the DI Horton series and my thrillers in response to questions often posed by readers.  Follow the links through to the articles on my website.…

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Added by Pauline Rowson on March 9, 2012 at 6:32pm — No Comments

Choosing names for characters in a novel - Pauline Rowson explains how she does it in her crime novels

One thing about writing a series (Inspector Andy Horton crime novels) is that some of the character names are already set, i.e. Inspector Horton, Sergeant Cantelli, Superintendent Uckfield. Then there is DI Dennings, DCI Lorraine Bliss and others, so no need to think up new names for them. But every novel has a new crime and a new set of characters and coming up with names for them can often be quite tricky as can be…

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Added by Pauline Rowson on July 13, 2010 at 1:54am — 3 Comments

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