TESS GERRITSEN WILL BE HERE TO CHAT EXCLUSIVELY WITH RISI MEMBERS FROM 8PM ON FRIDAY 28 MARCH.


All ReadItSwapIt members are invited to come along and ask her questions!

Here is a link to her website:

http://www.tessgerritsen.com/

I WOULD LIKE TO WELCOME Tess Gerritsen to RISI

I love her writing - welcome Tess

 Hi, just wanted to let you know I'm here and ready to chat at 8 PM!

tess 

Hello Tess,

Nice to see you here. I am Fiona, the person who has been sending you messages. If you refresh the page, it will help to read the other messages.

Please have a look around the site and we will chat in 15 minutes.

Hello Tess,

I was wondering how you came up with the ideas of your characters?

 Any questions, fire away!  It's 4 PM my time (east coast US) so this serves as a nice break from my afternoon's writing.

 Fiona,

  my characters somehow manage to create themselves a lot of the time.  Jane Rizzoli is an amalgamation of every female police officer I've ever met.  Maura Isles is a lot like me -- scientific and logical and, for the most part, unflappable.  So I often feel that I'm writing about myself when I write from her point of view. 

How did you come up with such great storylines?

Are you thinking of more books with both characters?

I have a question that I’d like to put to Tess – how do you go about plotting your novels? Do you have the bones of a plot in your mind before you start which you then flesh out as it goes on, or do you let the plot develop by itself as the novel progresses? Do you have an ending in mind all the time, or have some of your endings surprised even you?!?

Many thanks.

Tony (aka Telboy9999)

Hi it's LMP's mum & brother here as harri is in the bath - which is your favourite book & why and also do you have a favourite author?

 I'm now working on the 7th book in the Rizzoli and Isles series.  (It will be called KEEPING THE DEAD in the UK)   The ideas arise from my own interests -- or from fascinating news stories I've encountered.  VANISH, for instance, was inspired by a real news story about a young woman who was pronounced dead in her bathtub.  They zipped her into a body bag and sent her to the morgue.  And a few hours later, she woke up.  I knew immediately that I wanted to start off a book with a corpse who wakes up in a body bag!

 My current book is based on my interest in  Egyptian mummies.  And it will be about the forensics of archaeology.

Hi Tess

I dont have a question but just like to say how much I enjoy all of your books, and your books I always buy as paperbacks brand new

So thanks for the great reading

Sian x

 My favorite book is actually the one the fewest people have read -- and that's GRAVITY, about the space program!  I'm very much attuned to scientific developments, and wanted to set a book aboard the International Space Program.  That book seems to be a favorite of my male readers.  But if you ask my female readers, most of them seem to like THE SURGEON the best.

My favorite author?  Ooh, that's a toughie.  At the moment, I very much enjoy an author named Linwood Barclay and another one called CJ Box. 

 Sian, thanks for the nice words!  And do come by my blog every so often and drop a comment when you feel like it!