Ask the Author: Irene Sauman
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Irene Sauman
Well, there's an assumption. It isn't summer where I live. We're well into autumn in Oz. My reading at the moment is trying to complete the George Gently series by Alan Hunter. Some are very good, others perhaps not so as the author wrote over a period of many years and his writing changed and improved. They are police procedural mysteries, one could almost say cozies. Some are written in first person, others third. The written word Gently is more introspective than his TV counterpart. I'm enjoying them for the most part.
Irene Sauman
I've always wondered why my parents never took me and my siblings to meet family members who lived in our country district. We had contact with my mother's family in Melbourne 200 miles away - aunts, uncles, cousins - but only knew our nearby grandparents on my father's side despite, I have since discovered, a larger group of his relatives living in the area. I did meet one, once, but just who was 90-year-old Aunt Lizzie? Thank you for this question. My answer has possibilities I hadn't considered.
Irene Sauman
As of this moment I am waiting for Cataloguing in Publication from the National Library for my published Emma Berry Book 1, Gem of a Problem, which is to be relaunched in March 2017 with a new cover and some updates in the text, and the novella prequel, Saddled with Death, due same time. In the meantime I'm editing Book 2, A Body in the Woodpile, which is to come out in March also.
Irene Sauman
Writing is a job. Does anyone ask a plumber how he gets inspired to plumb?
Irene Sauman
Writer's block occurs when you don't know what happens next in your story. My solution is to plot the story out first, so I have some idea of where I'm going. Doesn't mean you have to stick to it. You won't, as new ideas will come up in the writing, good ideas too, as you see more clearly the further you go. I do my plotting in an exercise book and add to it as ideas come during the writing.
Irene Sauman
Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane, created by Dorothy Sayers. In Gaudy Night Harriet finally agrees to marry him after a decade courtship. She never regrets it. Gaudy Night and the books that following in the series are my all time favourites. Actually, it's time I revisited them. Thanks for asking.
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