How did you come up with that idea, and how did you keep that amnesia plot from becoming a cliché?

Y our romance novel Clean Slate, for which you won a prestigious Lambda Literary Award, features a woman who wakes up after an attack with a big gap in her memory. I NEED to start killing folks off-in books-because jail is a real thing and I don’t want to become intimately acquainted with it. If someone’s pissed me off…or it’s the end of the summer tourist season…I NEED to write crime stories. If I’m in a friendly mood, I’ll likely tell you I love to write romcom’s or romance. Which do I prefer…Depends which day you ask me, to be honest. I could be giving the killer and alibi I hadn’t intended! In the mysteries, there can be all kind of ramifications to those simple things. I don’t have as much freedom to go off-piste as I do in the romances where if I feel like adding a new scene that I’ve just come up with, I can without too much thought. Would you say one is harder to write than the other? And what’s your preferred genre?Įach have their idiosyncrasies, but I do find I have to be much more organized and methodical when I’m writing the mysteries or crime focused stories if for no other reason than I have to know who my bad guy is before I start to lead the police and therefor the clues in that direction, without being too obvious. You have written both mysteries and romance novels. I do feel they work better taken as a whole, but they can stand alone. The Norfolk Coast Investigation Series is intended to be a set of four stories featuring the same characters, but separate crimes are investigated in each book so that each novel can effectively stand alone to a greater or lesser extent. Please tell us a little about your Norfolk Coast Investigation series. Today, I’m interviewing fellow Ylva Publishing author Andrea Bramhall, who manages to write both lesbian mystery novels and lesbian romance-and who does both equally well.Īndrea is giving away an ebook copy of Collide-O-Scope, the first book in her Norfolk Coast Investigation series and a Lambda Literary Award finalist, so don’t miss the giveaway at the end of this post.

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