Love and Death with Angela Wren

This week I'm taking a break from blogging my novel to chat with friend and crime writer Angela Wren. Angela,
you’re a member of both the Romantic Novelists’ Association and
the Crime Writers’ Association, and your books have elements of
both crime and romance to them. What drew you to these two very
different genres, and how do you balance them in your stories? Accident
times 2 drew me to these genres! Once I’d made up my mind that I
could write a full novel it just so happened that my idea for that
story was built around a romance. Being a member of the RNA gave me
access to the New Writers’ Scheme and Le Cerisier – the name of
that particular work – was submitted twice. My second story also
involved a romance but intrigue too. That was submitted to the NWS
twice and came back the second time with some comments about
balancing the story across the two different genres. I
started my third novel, Messandrierre, which I had always known was a
dark tale, but I could not stop m…