Tricia: I was struck by your comment on my books - “It’s like I’m watching a movie and the scenes are brought to life with your words.”

That’s how I plot my books. I make a list of scenes with emotions that are running high, not necessarily love scenes, but action scenes or scenes of great conflict, and I try to visualize them as if I were watching them on a screen. Then I think up ways and means of building my story around these scenes.

Of course, if the characters are flat, I might as well not bother.

In my new series, I’ve added a touch of the paranormal. Someone who came across my website, a psychic, no less, emailed me privately. She sounds like a lovely, normal granny, just like me. I’m hoping to get some tips from her.

I have to say, I don’t want the paranormal to take over my books, so the three wordly Scottish grandsons of the Witch of Drumore are none too happy with the psychic powers that become theirs when their granny dies. Each grandson has a different gift. Each has to learn how to master it.

This is not the first time I’ve introduced the paranormal into my books. You Only Love Twice and The Pleasure Trap were the first. For me, using psychic elements is just a way to add flavor.

My favorite paranormal story is still Mary Stewart’s Touch Not The Cat. And my favorite TV show is Medium, due to reappear in February this year.

Talk to you later.

Elizabeth.

For more on Elizabeth and her books, go to the Romantic Times blog, Ask The Author.