tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post1798536608444748262..comments2024-03-26T17:48:56.627+00:00Comments on 'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?': Three Novels On The HorizonMartin Edwardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-76657671173386888192021-02-27T19:40:27.112+00:002021-02-27T19:40:27.112+00:00Thanks, Paul, and happy birthday in advance! I sho...Thanks, Paul, and happy birthday in advance! I should perhaps have mentioned that The Crooked Shore is set in 2019. I definitely didn't fancy writing about the pandemic - just as, at present, I don't fancy reading fiction about it, either! Martin Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-55284397331157231282021-02-27T08:55:36.045+00:002021-02-27T08:55:36.045+00:00Congratulation, Martin, on your deal with Head of ...Congratulation, Martin, on your deal with Head of Zeus for two more Rachel Savernake mysteries.<br /><br />The enigmatic heiress and her dogged newshound follower Jacob Flint were wonderful creations. And with its labyrinthine plot, its period detail, air of menace and sheer narrative drive, ‘Gallows Court’ was a crime thriller I enjoyed enormously. I haven’t read ‘Mortmain Hall’ yet but have high hopes a copy might materialise on my birthday in April…<br /><br />Of course, another book I’m looking forward to very much indeed is your 8th Lake District mystery, ‘The Crooked Shore’. I’ve been a fan of the series from the start. And after a break of six years, catching up with Daniel and Hannah will be like a reunion with old friends.<br /><br />Yes, this most appealing series has legs for many another book, I’m sure. I wonder how Daniel and Hannah have fared in the pandemic?<br /><br />Keep well,<br /><br />Paul <br />Paul Beechhttp://paulbeech.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-35749978609988233352021-02-25T11:45:18.305+00:002021-02-25T11:45:18.305+00:00Thanks so much, Lisa. I don't know the definit...Thanks so much, Lisa. I don't know the definite answer given the current uncertainties in publishing, but I definitely hope so! Best wishes for your move. Martin Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-76554953222209780392021-02-24T22:18:28.489+00:002021-02-24T22:18:28.489+00:00I hope I'll be able to get these in Israel as ...I hope I'll be able to get these in Israel as that's where we'll be living from April on. I haven't missed any of your books yet and I don't want to start now!Lisa Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15791518065924159387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-63693113666622721392021-02-24T19:46:09.206+00:002021-02-24T19:46:09.206+00:00I'm really very grateful for those remarks. As...I'm really very grateful for those remarks. As you say, it was a deliberate decision on my part, and I was very well aware that it might not suit every reader. But I wanted to do it that way because it 'felt right' in artistic terms and it's enormously heartening and rewarding when a reader 'gets' what I was doing in the way you have. Thank you. Martin Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-43447593292046996182021-02-24T14:02:14.901+00:002021-02-24T14:02:14.901+00:00I really REALLY enjoyed Mortmain Hall, and I espec...I really REALLY enjoyed Mortmain Hall, and I especially thought you were very clever in restraining yourself from saying too much in it. The story was its own, self-standing mystery, with the occasional allusions and (to anybody who might not have read Gallows Court) tantalizing suggestions about the "pre-story," but to my pleasant surprise you never "went there," never unpacked the whole of the preceding story in this one. As a second "installment" in a series it was notably light on exposition (therefore never tiresome), PLUS you managed to tie up this one up neatly while at the same time unfolding new...ominous...directions for future episodes. There were..."things" that only very few of the characters in the story, plus the reader of Gallows Court, could have understood and you left them there,without denouement, without a Big Reveal. Amazingly self-restrained of you. Bravo. KenTextshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04025929807420828868noreply@blogger.com