Ask the Author: Mike Hogan
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Mike Hogan
Um, I have had the temerity to write about the Scottish Question, but my book is set in 1897. Strangely, my research showed me that at least some Scots were deeply dissatisfied with the Union, or rather with the English. I let them have a little fun at our expense and drag in several members of Queen Victoria's extended family to join the party.
Mike Hogan
Titles spring up, and themes come to mind. Only one of my books, Hamlet and Me is based very loosely on my life - much enhanced.
Mike Hogan
Just finished a Sherlock Holmes pastiche: Sherlock Holmes -The Scottish Question (Sons of the Thistle). I'm sure I'll be hammered by Scots readers! I'm working on a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories themed around the railways. Watch out for Sherlock Holmes - Murder on the Brighton Line and Other Stories later in the year.
Mike Hogan
It's all been said really, but for me the art is in the edit. Don't trust your immediate reaction to a scene. Let it play out in your mind for a week or two and it will develop a life of its own.
Use all your senses. I try to have my characters not just look and hear, but smell, shiver in the cold, eat, drink and (in period pieces) smoke.
Use all your senses. I try to have my characters not just look and hear, but smell, shiver in the cold, eat, drink and (in period pieces) smoke.
Mike Hogan
Not having to work - this is fun.
Mike Hogan
I write half a dozen random pieces of dialogue - attribute a character to each and try to flesh out the more promising ones into a plot....
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