Rosemary and Larry coauthor the popular Paco & Molly Mysteries and the Dan & Rivka Sherman Mysteries—and most recently, Unto the Third Generation, A Novella of the Future. They call Honolulu home, where they cherish time with their children and grandchildren. The Milds are members of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and Hawaii Fiction Writers. Find out more about their books on their website.
1. The
best part of writing as a husband-and-wife is…
Larry: Never
having to write in a vacuum, always having someone to turn to and discuss the
process.
Rosemary: Spending
valuable time together while sharing a meaningful project
2. The
most challenging part of writing as a husband-and-wife is…
Larry: Negotiating
a difficult description passage or plot twist or character name or trait.
Rosemary: Accomplishing
“a.” without ruffling any feathers. It’s the only thing we ever argue about.
3. My absolute favorite part of the writing
process is…
Larry: Developing
the original plot idea into a complete first draft.
Rosemary: Researching
and learning pertinent facts needed for the book.
Larry
& Rosemary: Holding the final published and printed book
in our hands
4. My absolute least favorite part of the writing
process is…
Larry and
Rosemary: Proofreading!
5. We seem to come up with the best writing ideas
when…
Larry and
Rosemary: when the two of us discuss something we’ve read or heard in the
media.
6. If we ever get “stuck” when I am writing, we get
through it by…
Larry and
Rosemary: going on to the next page,
chapter or section and come back to it later.
7. _________ is the book that changed my life.
Larry: The Count
of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas is the book that changed my life because it
convinced me that history and adventure together make great novels.
Rosemary: Gone with
the Wind captivated me with its life-size
characters and Civil War setting. My
second favorite: Forever Amber.
So steamy for a fourteen-year-old in 1949 when Amber undoes two buttons of her
blouse. I even announced to my mother that I was changing my name to Amber. You
can imagine how well that went.
8. __________ is the book I wish I had written.
Larry: The Pillars of the Earth by Ken
Follett is the book I wish I had written.
Rosemary: Strangers
on a Train, Patricia Highsmith’s first novel; a brilliant psychological
suspense/mystery.
9.
If I
weren’t a writer, I’d most likely be…
Larry: An electronics engineer, which I was
until I retired in 1993. I’ve been told that I might have made a decent lawyer
otherwise.
Rosemary: I can’t imagine not being a writer. I spent
my full-time career as an assistant editor at Harper’s; a copy editor at
a major medical/scientific publisher; and as an engineering writer at
Westinghouse. I love writing personal essays; my stock-in-trade is humor,
exaggeration, and dramatizing the minutiae of my quirky everyday life.
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