FAQ-Why do you always write from the male point of view?

When an author first starts writing much of it is trial and error until he/she finds what suits them best.  And so it was with me.  My early unpublished attempts were at writing historical sagas, switching the story between a female lead character and a male lead character.  When these failed to find a publisher and when I suddenly woke up to the fact that all my sagas contained a crime element I abandoned sagas and wrote a suspense novel primarily with a female lead.  This got me an agent  (so I was at last on the right track) but failed to find me a publisher. The agent very quickly dropped me.  So back to the drawing board.

I realized that I enjoyed writing more from the male character's view point than I did the female.  I'm not sure why. Many people have asked me and the answer is I don’t really know, maybe it’s because I like male heroes. I don't think it matters, it just happens to be my style! That being said there are, of course, some very strong females in my novels.

When I created the flawed and rugged detective, DI Andy Horton, in the first of the Horton series, Tide of Death which has been re-published by Joffe Books as THE PORTSMOUTH MURDERS, I knew then that I had found my ‘voice’.  Andy was my hero albeit a flawed one but everything began to fall into place. I fell in love with him instantly and wanted to tell the story from his tumultuous point of view.