Guest Post: Gale Laure

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Why I Write Mystery, Suspense, Romance and Thriller Genre

On the edge is a motto I use when I write.  I like everything to be on the edge.  From the mystery that is entangled within the pages of my book, to the growing excitement of my suspense, to the tingle of the thriller, I am in control.  You, as the reader, are not.   I find it delicious.  

 

I probably like writing mystery, suspense, romance and thriller books more than you do reading them.  While I was writing my debut novel, Evolution of a Sad Woman, all I did was smile.  Nothing makes you feel better than a good, deep smile that goes down to the soul.   

 

Even the romance in my mystery, thriller, suspense and romance novel is a little on the edge.  I attempt to make my relationships complicated.  I believe this makes my characters realistic.

  My characters love deeply and unforgettably.  My goal is to mix the challenge of the mind, the emotion of the heart and the edginess of the nerves.   

 

As a female author of fiction, I feel I have much emotion to draw upon.  I draw emotion from my characters and for my characters.  It is as if they feed me, and I feed them.  My characters must always feel.  They must feel happiness, sadness, terror, fear, anger, love, anxiety, uncertainty, passion and even sometimes boredom.   This brings them to life!   

 

I love mystery and thrillers.  I love suspense genre.  I write what I love.  And, oh do not forget my love of romance novels.   

 

I have often been asked why I included so many genres in my novel.  It is really quite simple for me.  Life is not just one genre, so why should my book be just one genre.  Life is more interesting than just one genre.  I want my novels to be like life!  I want my books to live!  I feel mystery creates suspense.  Suspense often generates thrills.  I use romance to tie together the mystery, suspense and thriller genres.  

 

I try to use my location to evoke feeling within my readers.  I chose Houston, Texas.  Houston is an expansive town full of the rich, the poor, the desperate, the intelligent, the sad and the happy.  The humidity of Houston seems to present a passion all on its own. It is hot, sultry and produces a sticky loving emotion.   

 

When you read my book Evolution of a Sad Woman, I hope you are taken into a new world.  It is a world I have created for you.  It may be good at times, or bad at times.  It will be a world you have never visited.  I am sharing a piece of myself with you.   

 

So enjoy my mystery, suspense, thriller and romance novel, Evolution of a Sad Woman.   It is a labor of great love for me.   

 

You can be sure that I enjoyed every minute of creating it for you!    

Gale Laure, a native Texan, is the international selling author of Evolution of a Sad Woman, a mystery, suspense, thriller and romance novel .   She resides in a small suburban town in the Houston area with her husband and family.  Laure’s hobbies include genealogical research, movies, creating stories for the children around her, involvement in her church and people watching. She is busy at work editing her second novel, The Bunkhouse, and writing the sequel to Evolution of a Sad Woman.  It is entitled Alana - Evolution of a Woman.  As mysterious as her  book, Laure writes under a pseudonym.  Adamant about maintaining her privacy and the privacy of her family, she keeps her identity a mystery!   

 

For more information about Gale Laure or her novel, Evolution of a Sad Woman,  visit www.galelaure.com or her blog  www.evolutionofasadwoman  or do an Internet search.