Ask the Author: Annabel Frazer
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Annabel Frazer
Hi Teaqueen. I would love to have a positive answer for you. I am proud to count Allison as a friend. Her lnowledge and affection for Mary Stewart are second to none and she inspired me to write The Sea Raven, which was a huge privilege. But sadly haven't heard from her in after or so - I guess she just needed to step away from the literary world for a while.
I was enjoying her Mary Stewart blog hugely and really good she will be able to come back to it at some point in the future.
Do message me personally if you want to talk more.
Annabel x
I was enjoying her Mary Stewart blog hugely and really good she will be able to come back to it at some point in the future.
Do message me personally if you want to talk more.
Annabel x
Annabel Frazer
What a great question. A lot of my favourite books are thrillers and while I would find it fascinating to visit the world of, say, Robert Harris's Pompeii or Mary Stewart's Wildfire At Midnight, it would be a pretty uncomfortable, not to say dangerous, experience.
I'd love to play croquet at a Victorian country house with the characters in Connie Willis's To Say Nothing Of The Dog, stay at Manderley or eat buttered crumpets by the fire prepared by Bunter. But of course, if I was really allowed to go to a fictional book world, I would have to choose one with an unhappy ending and try to avert it and I'm not sure if that's allowed in fictional time-travelling.
I'd love to play croquet at a Victorian country house with the characters in Connie Willis's To Say Nothing Of The Dog, stay at Manderley or eat buttered crumpets by the fire prepared by Bunter. But of course, if I was really allowed to go to a fictional book world, I would have to choose one with an unhappy ending and try to avert it and I'm not sure if that's allowed in fictional time-travelling.
Annabel Frazer
More classic Golden Age detection. I've yet to really properly explore John Dickson Carr, Erle Stanley Gardner and a host of others - and trying to do so gives me an excuse to hunt around in secondhand bookshops, which is one of my favourite activities other than writing and reading.
I also need to complete the Alex Rider series, as I am in a race with my son to do so. Luckily, I like reading more than one book at once - a different one in each room at home works for me, so that I can pick them up whenever an unexpected reading opportunity presents itself.
I also need to complete the Alex Rider series, as I am in a race with my son to do so. Luckily, I like reading more than one book at once - a different one in each room at home works for me, so that I can pick them up whenever an unexpected reading opportunity presents itself.
Annabel Frazer
Where my cat goes every day! (And often overnight too...) He's black with green eyes and he disappears for hours or days at a time, then comes back looking lean and hungry and sometimes festooned with cobwebs. What is he doing out there?
Annabel Frazer
Non-stop. The difficulty is to stop getting inspired by different ideas. Novels take a long time to write - you have to pick one idea and stick to it. This reminds me of one of my favourite writing quotations, which is from Agatha Christie's Mrs Oliver, a scatterbrained but successful crime novelist: "Oh, I can always think of things. That's not the difficulty. The problem is that one thinks of too many things and has to give some of them up and that is rather agony."
Annabel Frazer
A detective story/thriller set mostly in London, in which someone is murdered at a Wimbledon tennis match. I don't know why I picked Wimbledon - logistically it's a nightmare for a murder. Don't do what I did - pick somewhere with less rigorous ticket allocation procedures.
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