Interview Katrina Farabaugh

by

Scott DeLane

1. Katrina, do your characters ever get away from you? If so, how do you get them back in line?

 It’s funny you ask this but yes, my characters often get away from me. While writing my new novel I had a character just up and disappear. I don’t know where she went but after a few days of not writing, I came back and there she was. I knew why she did it!

2. What inspired Prelude To Morning?

 I had the ending of this story in my mind for several years. When I sat down to write it, I research through my English History references and found several actual events that took place around the same time as my ending. I just incorporated them together and the story grew from there.

3. What emotions are you trying to achieve in the mind of your readers?

 I like fast and funny novels that have characters one can root for and laugh at. I would like to think that my stories are very much like this and will be a good read. I want mothers, grandmothers, nieces, aunts, etc to be able to share my novels with all ages and never have to be cautious about the subject matter. My novels have no offensive subject matter or themes. Reading is for sharing!

4. When you begin a story, do you know how it will end?

 I often know how it will end but I do have stories that have a great middle but no ending, or have a beginning but I’m not quite sure where it goes from there.

5. From what writer have you learned the most?

 Juile Garwood and Agatha Christie. Both have the ability to keep the reader guessing and interested in the story right up to the end.

6. If you could have coffee with anyone, living or dead, real or fictional, who would it be?

 Queen Elizabeth I. I think she was one tough cookie who really knew how to have fun. Can you imagine keeping several men at bay, not to mention creating the most powerful kingdom in the free world? Also, I would like to pick her brain about some rumors that I know of.

7. Can anyone write a good novel or does it a special talent?

 I think all people have good stories to tell. The only talent one really needs is to be able to convey those stories by writing them. Some of the best history stories are the ones your family tells.

8. Would you rather write one great novel or five good ones?

 I’m just looking to get the stories floating around in this head of mine down on paper. Are they good? Are they great? I have no idea, but I’d like to think so. But to answer your question, I’m looking to entertain not to write the next big thing.

9. What are your favorite themes?

 I like heroes with flaws and heroines that are stronger then they think.

10. What is next on the drawing board?

 My next novel, Prologue To Dawn, is set in Scotland and centers on a widow who, to assure her son’s inheritance, must marry one of the men her dead husband chose for her. Even though this is a stand alone novel, we meet again one of the characters from Prelude To Morning.