Ask the Author: Sophia Martin
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Sophia Martin
Who can top "For sale: Baby shoes, never worn." ?
Sophia Martin
In 2011 my cousin Isabelle disappeared. The police found her car parked in a remote location near a canal. They found one shoe. They've dredged the canal and some ground-level water tanks not far off from the site where her car was found. They've combed the woods in the area. They've read her diary and looked at her computer and found she had plans to go on a motorcycle trip a few days after she disappeared. She had just bought a motorcycle helmet. Six different psychics have applied themselves to the case with no results. We will probably never find out what happened to her. That is a mystery I will always wish we could solve--I can't imagine what it does to my aunt, her mother, not knowing what happened to her daughter.
I've thought about addressing it in one of my Veronica books. I'm not sure I ever will, though; I wouldn't want my aunt or any of Isabelle's other loved ones to feel like I was exploiting what happened to her. That's not why I would want to write about it, of course. I'd do it because often my Veronica books are a door to my fantasies--come uppance for vile people in the real world who will never get a real come uppance, that sort of thing. If I wrote about Isabelle in some way, it would be to create a story where the mystery is solved, and she is found. But like I said, I'm not sure I'll ever do that, or if I do, that I'll publish what I write.
I've thought about addressing it in one of my Veronica books. I'm not sure I ever will, though; I wouldn't want my aunt or any of Isabelle's other loved ones to feel like I was exploiting what happened to her. That's not why I would want to write about it, of course. I'd do it because often my Veronica books are a door to my fantasies--come uppance for vile people in the real world who will never get a real come uppance, that sort of thing. If I wrote about Isabelle in some way, it would be to create a story where the mystery is solved, and she is found. But like I said, I'm not sure I'll ever do that, or if I do, that I'll publish what I write.
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Sophia Martin
I do like Sherlock Holmes. When I was a teenager I read all the original stories (I had a big honking book of them), and I very much enjoy the new series with Benedict Cumberbatch. I also find Robert Domney Jr.'s movies a lot of fun.
I have had some ideas for a regency era romance, but I haven't given a lot of thought to writing a Victorian era mystery. It's a good idea, though! It's going on the list of ideas to come back to at a later date. :)
I have had some ideas for a regency era romance, but I haven't given a lot of thought to writing a Victorian era mystery. It's a good idea, though! It's going on the list of ideas to come back to at a later date. :)
Sophia Martin
I actually have about five ideas going right now. I've been working on the third book in my dystopian trilogy, but I don't want to do that one for NaNo because it's not the kind of book I feel I can rush to produce and then rework later--it's much more of a careful-as-you-go book to write. So for NaNo I have to decide which of the rest of the ideas to pursue. I've got some for the next Veronica book as well as some completely new ones. I get my ideas from current events for the Veronica books, usually, and then anything that inspires, angers, or fascinates me tends to find its way into all of my writing.
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