Help me keep the FAQ on MegGardiner.com current and relevant. Here are the main questions up on the site right now. Let me know, via comments or email, what else you’d like to find out or, conversely, what you couldn’t care less about.
1. Why do you write crime fiction?
2. Is Evan Delaney based on you?
3. Are your other characters based on real people?
4. Are your settings real?
5. Is Evan ever going to marry Jesse Blackburn?
6. Where do you get your ideas?
7. I’ve written a book. Will you read my manuscript?
8. I’m not a writer but I have an idea for a book. Will you write it?
There are also the questions in this blog’s impromptu FAQ and in the recurring queries about my identity:
1. What’s the order of your novels?
2. Are you related to ____ Gardner? (Lisa, Erle Stanley, Frank, Ava…)
3. Your married name is Shreve. Are you Anita Shreve?
4. Are you absolutely positive you’re not Anita Shreve?
5. Do you write children’s books?
6. What do you mean, you don’t write children’s books? You’re kidding, right?
Anything else?
9 responses so far ↓
Snart // July 8, 2007 at 9:14 pm
Hey, Meg O’Death.
Here are a couple for you:
1. What frightens you more — your imagination or real life?
2. Faced with a must-do-one choice, what would you rather be: a crime reporter or a sports reporter? and why?
3. If you were given a choice of singing a solo on world-wide television or facing a firing squad, what would you chose? and what would you sing?
4. What title and book plot come to mind when you read the words “reign” and “potatoes”? And who would star in the movie?
Just thought your mind might be going dull during the hot summer months.
prospectus // July 9, 2007 at 4:38 pm
Do you have a favourite of the books you’ve written? Which did you enjoy writing most?
(I’m really surprised that some of those are asked frequently - eg. “Will you write it for me?”)
P.
Meg // July 10, 2007 at 10:40 am
Thanks, guys - good questions. Even yours, Snark. I mean, Snart.
Prospectus, I don’t actually get bombarded with constant requests to write other people’s stories. But people do now and again tell me they have an idea for a novel, and they wonder if I’d like to write it and share credit - and money - with them. The FAQ question is meant to forestall anybody sending me their story ideas unsolicited. This is both to prevent any legal problems, and to let people know that I need to come up with my own stories.
prospectus // July 10, 2007 at 2:38 pm
It seems a bit presumptuous though. Still who knows, maybe you’ll get a crack at ghostwriting Posh & Becks’ autobiography.
Don // July 10, 2007 at 4:46 pm
With the amount of blogging you do, where are you finding the time to write the next Evan Delaney novel?
What do you mean you have not started yet?
Stop blogging and get to work woman!!!!
Meg // July 10, 2007 at 4:47 pm
Presumptuous, yes, Prospectus, a wee bit. But so are the people who email me their manuscripts out of the blue (always wonderful to get a 1.5 mb attachment from an unknown email address), or drop the seven-hundred page first draft of their thriller through my mailbox with a note saying, “Thought you’d be the best person to tell me how to fix this.”
Though maybe I shouldn’t have thrown out that manuscript with the imprint of the football boot on the envelope, and dripping with hair gel and silicone.
Don - ah, yes. The book. Thanks for reminding me.
prospectus // August 20, 2007 at 2:58 pm
Ok, then. I’m about halfway through Mission Canyon at the minute, and I’ve got a new one for your FAQ.
Where do I meet a woman like cousin Tater? Healthy appetite, vibrant dress sense, handy bag of lingerie and sex toys ever at the ready. What more could one ask for?
Do I need to go to Oklahoma or have you found any in Europe?
Meg // August 21, 2007 at 7:45 am
She travels, Prospectus.
prospectus // August 21, 2007 at 7:11 pm
Stupid of me - of course she does! Someone so sophisticated and cosmopolitan would have to.
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