Kelly Lardner’s Amazing Imagination

One day, I asked Kelly Lardner, “How do you begin to write a novel?”

Kelly got a faraway look in her pretty eyes and said, “First, I thoroughly research a particular place and time. Then, complex characters begin to appear in my imagination. They visit me all through the day. While I’m washing dishes, I might say, ‘No, it’s too early for you to kiss him!’ Or, ‘This is what you should say instead.’

“It’s very important that I like my main character, the ‘protagonist.’ If I discover I don’t like her, she has to go—or change—or be in another part of the story. I’m never alone or bored when I’m writing a novel; and one novel leads to another. Right now, in fact, I’m writing a mystery!”

I’m hooked on Kelly’s second novel, Rose Beads, (written under her pen name, Ke Ridolfi.) Kelly’s imagination did all the work—now I just read on to see what happens next.

Here’s Kelly, wearing her grandmother’s handmade rose beads!