Questioning Lenora Worth
Bestselling author Lenora Worth recently stopped to share about her writing life.
What did you want to be as a child (and did that dream come true)?
I wanted to be a secret agent, but my mama said I might get shot. But in the fourth grade, after we did a writing project, I had found my trade. I started writing even back then and sold my stories on the playground. Milk money!
What does your family think of your writing romantic suspense?
They have always been very supportive, but my husband tells his friends I know how to kill people.
What is one of your favorite ways to connect with readers?
I love getting emails, or FB posts, or old-fashioned mail from my readers. We’re in the process of moving and I’ve been reading old letters from fans I’ve saved through the years. I love to connect with readers on Facebook and Instagram, too. I’m chatty and I love to visit with them.
What are some of the questions you hear when you say you write romantic suspense?
Most people are intrigued about the plots and how I come up with them and they like to ask a lot of different questions. I try to tell them how I research and what I’m writing in a current book.
How do you ensure your books are accurate?
I try to find experts, or read as much as possible on the subjects and I’m in a group that is strictly for suspense writers, where a lot of experts also write and they are willing to show us how to make it accurate. And yet, I still get things wrong at times.
What is absolutely essential for you to write?
I like having a full day to get things straight and I try to write a chapter in a day if I can.
What has been most frustrating about writing romantic suspense?
Not writing the same plot over and over, coming up with something unexpected and refreshing.
What has been most rewarding about writing romantic suspense?
How the readers try to figure things out and how they really like my books. I love it when I’ve surprised someone. Once I got an email from a man who’d read a book set in Texas. The hero was a Texas Ranger whose daughter had been taken. The reader told me he’d never read a book where a Texas Ranger cried, and made him cry too. That was the best compliment.
What do you wish readers knew about the romantic suspense genre?
That it’s hard, that we try our best to be accurate with police work and criminal jargon, and that we want them to enjoy the book and be surprised by it.
What do readers ask you when they meet you?
What’s my schedule, am I rich (no), when is the next book coming out?
Who’s your favorite romantic suspense writer and why?
I love Alex Kava. She started with Harlequin but now she writes wonderful K-9 suspense with a hero that has my heart. It’s a series with the same hero and he is just great and so are his trained K-9s.
Which of your books is your favorite and why?
A book titled Heart of the Night. It was one of my early suspense stories and I loved the hero. He was Cajun, tormented, and tough and he meets a woman who is just as tough. I still think about Eli Trudeau now and then and I know he is happy at last!
About Lenora
A member of the American Christian Fiction Writers Honor Roll, Lenora Worth writes romance and romantic suspense for Love Inspired and sweet romance for Tule Publishing. She also writes for Kensington Books. Three of her books have finaled in the ACFW Carol Awards. She received the Romantic Times Pioneer Award for Inspirational Fiction. Lenora is a NY Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and ECPA bestselling writer and a 2019 RWA RITA® Finalist. With 100-plus books and novellas published and millions of books in print, she enjoys adventures with her retired husband and loves reading, baking, and shopping … especially shoe shopping.
Connect w/Lenora
Website: www.lenoraworth.com
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Instagram: @lenoraworth
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