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Anna Elliott
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Post by Anna Elliott » Mon March 30th, 2009, 2:10 am

One of my favorite historical mystery writers, Anne Perry, said that the key to writing believable characters is to like them--not just the protagonist characters, but even the villains. I do think that's true to some degree. The villains I find most believable--and therefore the most frightening--are those that have a spark of humanity in them, something that we, the reader, can identify with.

Author of the Twilight of Avalon trilogy
new book: Dark Moon of Avalon, coming Sept 14 from Simon &Schuster (Touchstone)

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