Marilyn's Musings

As Marilyn has pointed out in interesting, earlier posts, writers get the inspirations that fire their imaginations from all kinds of different sources. For the nine books in my Margot & Max series, I find I’ve most often been inspired by glancing at newspaper headlines. Headlines are a sort of a journalistic tease. They are written and selected in order to get the reader to actually read the article. Headlines are similar to movie trailers or previews, not concerned so much with the facts of the story, but written to tantalize the readers’ curiosities. With my latest, CLOSE-UP, however, my inspiration came from another source, one overheard sentence. Out of context sentences, like headlines, only give you a tantalizing part of the story. This one sentence l heard led to writing a 75,000 word mystery story! My protagonists are in the filmmaking business. Margot is a film editor and her, partner, Max, is a successful director and screenwriter. I am lucky enough to have a daughte...