Authors Electric

So – December 2012. Is the world going to end in a few weeks? Is it worth buying any Christmas presents, or will the shops be full of Christmas Eve shoppers grabbing last minute gifts when they realise that really they don’t have a valid excuse after all? I love a good conspiracy theory. From Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code , I’ve been lapping them all up. It may not be the best-written book in the world, but I can’t say I noticed as the plot fascinated me. I love to go off and actually look at pictures of The Last Supper and see if I agree with Brown’s interpretations. For me, the key to a good story of this type is the plausibility of the plot. I’m willing to believe, I want to go with the author; it doesn’t take much to hook me in, but get it wrong – tell me something I know for a fact cannot be true –   and you’ve lost me forever. Take vampires for instance. I can suspend disbelief enough to acknowledge their existence in fiction – but having children? Nope, that’s crossed...