The Hob's Bargain by Patricia Briggs New York Times Bestselling Author

The Hob's Bargain by Patricia Briggs New York Times Bestselling Author  The Hob's Bargain Author's Comments This book started as a challenge in my writer's group. We were all to write an erotic short story, so I invented the Hob's world and a woman who was different from the ones I'd written before: a woman who started out as a good mediaeval housewife then was honed by survival into a woman of strength and character. It didn't turn out to be erotica, but I liked the story. Unfortunately, I couldn't get a good hold on Aren's character when I backed up to the softer woman the story began with. This was a problem I'd never encountered before, characters usually come easily to me. In frustration I shifted to first person, but not even that desperate effort seemed to help. I workshopped it at two writer's groups, and at last, Jerry Oltion hit the nail on the head. "Things just happen to her. She never does anything," he said. And I learned a very simple truth, good characters have