Scene stealer!

The next book I am going to publish is ‘The Double Act’, a story I wrote quite a few years ago and which literally sat in a drawer until I decided to revive it and rewrite bits of it and publish it as an e-book. I had submitted it to loads of publishers over the years, all without success, so now I’m going to publish it myself through Kindle Direct Publishing on Amazon.

The Double Act seems at first as if it is going to be a romance, the double act of the title being two of the main characters, Genet and Lance McCauley who run a small hotel in my imaginary seaside town of Easthope. However, there is a dark, very dark undercurrent which gradually affects the McCauley and their friends and they may not be the great double act after all. There is romance, but only as a trigger to other things which happen…

The opening scene involves a blocked sink in a kitchen and what happens when a newly moved in neighbour comes to help to unblock it… I wrote this maybe ten, maybe more years ago as I was working at the time and my books got written in small chunks late at night when all the school work was finished, all the household chores done, the children in bed, and I had some time before I went to bed.

I have rewritten this scene  in a way which I hope makes it more effective and dramatic and more realistic and believable… so anyway, I was watching Borgen last night, the Danish political drama, when good grief! They’ve got my scene with the blocked sink and someone coming to help and then an incident taking place! How could they! They’ve stolen my  scene! Well, of course they actually haven’t really stolen my scene, they have just coincidentally written one which is the same as mine…

The only trouble is I will worry now in case when people read my book they think I have stolen the scene from Borgen… heck, don’t say I will have to completely rewrite it? I’ll have a ponder and decide what to do, but I think I will probably keep it as it is… great minds think alike after all!