Ask the Author: Jon Stenhugg
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Jon Stenhugg
The Doll Funeral, by Kate Hamer. I found Kate's first book, The Girl in the Red Coat fascinating. Not only was it well-written and engaging, but it was the best example I have found of how to use two first-person narratives in the same book, making it two books for the reader. I can't wait to see what she has done with the new one.
Jon Stenhugg
When I was about 10 years old, a neighbour shot and killed his wife and tried to make it look like suicide, a single shot to the head. I foiled that since I had heard two shots, his first shot missing the target. I wrote a short story about this using my real name, but I have often thought about putting into one of Stenhugg's novels.
Jon Stenhugg
Good question! My first thoughts go to a fictional pair coupled by crime, Sherlock Holmes and James Moriarty. I was devastated when that relationship ended. Good villains should be hard to get rid of, and that’s something I’ve tried to use in my own writing.
But the word “couple” is often used to denote a male and female pair, and that can easily become a romance. I have to admit, I’m a sucker for romance, as long as it’s hopeless, desperate romance, like Romeo and Juliet. I don’t know how many times I saw the fictional film about Count Sparre and his mistress Elvira Madigan, but I cried every time. Especially after I visited their very real graves in Denmark. It’s the hopeless romances that get me, the ones that end in death, and I find it sometimes enters into the characters I write about. I won’t speculate about why.
But the word “couple” is often used to denote a male and female pair, and that can easily become a romance. I have to admit, I’m a sucker for romance, as long as it’s hopeless, desperate romance, like Romeo and Juliet. I don’t know how many times I saw the fictional film about Count Sparre and his mistress Elvira Madigan, but I cried every time. Especially after I visited their very real graves in Denmark. It’s the hopeless romances that get me, the ones that end in death, and I find it sometimes enters into the characters I write about. I won’t speculate about why.
Jon Stenhugg
Hej, ursäkta. Du uppgavs vara moderator för en grupp, Boktokarna. Vänner i närheten välkomna ändå. Vänligen, Jon
Jon Stenhugg
The core of "The Second Child" is the search for the identity of a child in a photograph taken before WW2 began. This photograph was published as part of an interview more than a decade ago. When asked who the child was standing beside the interviewee, the answer was, "I don't remember." I didn't believe the answer, and wrote a completely fictional account of the child's identity.
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