Why setting is important to A Haunting Dream
Setting is as important as any character is a mystery novel.
Setting plays a crucial role in determining what the world is like where your
story takes place.
Setting can be anything, anywhere, which conveys the mood,
place and time of a mystery. It gives the reader a sense of who a character is,
and what that character is experiencing. Creating a believable setting is
vital to any fiction.
The story can be humorous or thoughtful. It can be scary or
paranormal—loaded with ghosts and demons. It can take place in the past, in the
future, or in present day. All of these details become real in your setting.
Make your setting as dynamic as possible. Don't throw in a
bunch of unimportant facts that have nothing to do with the movement of your
story. Use setting consciously to communicate specific information and achieve
a particular effect on your audience.
In our Missing Pieces Mysteries, our sleuth is Dae
O’Donnell. She is the mayor of her small town, Duck, North Carolina. Duck is a
real place in the N.C Outer Banks. We visited the area frequently as much to
give our readers real landmarks (Kitty Hawk, the Hatteras Lighthouse) as a
sense of what it’s like to live in this place. Pirate and ghost stories abound
here. It’s a much different life than Dae would have if we’d put her character
in Raleigh!
Our next book in the Missing Pieces Series is A Haunting
Dream (December4th). We hope to
transport our readers to Duck again with the smell of the salt air, the sounds
of the sea, the feeling of living in a small town of less than 600 people. Our
mayor is facing re-election in this book and she’s forced to work with a woman
she fears to find a missing child.
Bio:
Joyce
Lavene writes bestselling mystery with her husband/partner Jim. They have
written and published more than 60 novels for Harlequin, Berkley and Charter
Books along with hundreds of non-fiction articles for national and regional
publications. She lives in rural North Carolina with her family, her cat,
Quincy, and her rescue dog, Rudi. Visit her at www.joyceandjimlavene.com,
Facebook/JoyceandJimLavene.com. Twitter: @authorjlavene, http://romanceofmystery.blogspot.com.
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