Wow, did you see the the video for God’s War? Very awesome, plus if you comment you might get a free copy. There’s no downside.
I’m embarrassed to say I got stumped for a minute, trying to come up with awesome female characters in books. Movies, I can list a million drool-worthy ladies (Starbuck. Zoe from Firefly. Salt. See, you’re salivating right now, aren’t you?) and comics? Where to begin? But books? There obviously aren’t enough.
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My name is Thomas S. Roche and I recently wrote a zombie apocalypse novel called The Panama Laugh. I wish I could tell you how it happened, but honestly it’s still a mystery to me. Oftentimes I felt like the characters were doing the work for me — by grabbing my head and smacking it against the keyboard a few hundred times.
To put it a different way: Having written literally hundreds of short stories, I finally found characters that didn’t stop talking to me after 10,000 words — or 100,000. The thing ended up longer than I had any intention of it being, and it took the attentions of a very dedicated first reader — and a lot of work on my part — to cut it down and make it a tight, action-driven narrative.
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