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Bubbling… and erupting
I am well-known for being spectacularly absent-minded and forgetful… always have been. When we were children, or even teenagers, my sister Andy, two years younger than me always had the tickets, the money the passports or whatever else we needed because I would be sure to lose/forget/misplace them. At the same time I am renowned among family and […]
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Farholm… continued?
The first book I published, Farholm, received some lovely comments and some helpful criticisms and quite a few of the remarks were along the lines of, what happens next? After an exciting and dangerous confrontation, the book concluded with most of the mystery solved, the puzzles unravelled, and the characters able to return to their everyday lives. However my readers wanted […]
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Back story
When I’m writing, and full on in the flow, I sometimes have several different story-lines running, but not all of them make it onto the paper. Sometimes I need to know what characters said and did off-stage, or off-page, in order to have some sense of why things happen. My readers don’t need to have 24-hour coverage of every single little tiny thing, […]
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Lois Elsden 