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From previous issues:
Janet Evanovich
on writing romance v. writing crime:
"By the time I was at book five or six, I knew I was never going to be
the world's best romance writer, I was not such a great romantic person.
I was starting to run out of positions.
My husband was looking really tired. All that research. He was pale, he was going bald, he was losing his hair, and he couldn't keep up with it ... Then the other thing that happened to me was that about halfway through romance writing I went through menopause and I realised I had a lot more interest in murder than I had in sex, so I moved into crime writing."
Cathy Cole
on the appeal of crime fiction:
"Crime fiction can really address a lot of the less popular issues.
That's always, by my standards anyway, the left-leaning ones. So it was
a very interesting genre for me to use to explore things like what happens
to communities of people who cease to be enconomically viable in an area
in which they have a history."