I love animals, so dogs and cats are something of a trademark. I haven't the patience to write incidental detail such as someone picking up a phone and putting it down again. To me these stories never seem 'finished.' I review and edit them at every opportunity, even after they have been sent off to judges ~ and in some cases, won prizes. Most of us would rather rip off our right hands than be deprived of our freedom and so crime is committed by morons who seemingly have never heard of DNA. Murder motivates several of these yarns but I am also intrigued by the mindset of criminals.
When I decided to write the stories the ideas came to me in a flash! In a few weeks I had almost 100 ideas and fragments of ideas to choose from and I knew at least 25 of those would develop into stories of an eclectic range.
