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Pat Walsh
Hi Eliza, thank you for your kind words, and I'm so glad you liked the first two books. I'm happy to say this isn't a dead series, in spite of the gap between book 2 and 3. Crowfield Rising is written and will appear at some point in the not too distant future. I will post an update nearer the time.
As I've said elsewhere, life has thrown some curve balls in the last few years, and book 3 has been a casualty. It was always my intention to finish the trilogy, but returning to William and his world has not been easy. However, I did return and have now finished his story. Thank you for being so patient.
As I've said elsewhere, life has thrown some curve balls in the last few years, and book 3 has been a casualty. It was always my intention to finish the trilogy, but returning to William and his world has not been easy. However, I did return and have now finished his story. Thank you for being so patient.
Pat Walsh
Hello Sam, thank you for your very kind comment about the books. I'm delighted that you still read them. As for the website, it's time for a complete overhaul so I've closed it for the time being. As for writing, for very personal reasons that I don't want to go into on a public platform, I'm taking some time out from writing for a while.
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Pat Walsh
Good question! I would go to Moominvalley in midsummer. The moomins and their friends throw the best parties, full of fairy lights and magic. And if I could go back again, I would visit the valley in midwinter. More magic, lots of snow and a population of strange and wonderful creatures. Pretty perfect!
Pat Walsh
Hello Ankur, thank you so much for the lovely things you say about Crowfield! Very kind of you. As for what inspired me to write the series, it wasn't so much any fiction I read, but just a deep interest in archaeology. I've always wondered what the lives of the people we dig up were like. Archaeology can only tell you so much, so writing was a way of putting the flesh on the bones, so to speak. As an archaeologist,I worked on several abbeys and priories over the years and often thought about what life must have been like in one of the smaller, poorer religious houses. It wouldn't have been pleasant - cold, not enough food, hard work, and a lonely life for a young servant boy. I've always loved ghost stories, mythology, legends, and using these to add details to historical fiction really appealed to me. As for books that I love - where to start! There are so many! I tend to read things with a fantasy/supernatural or otherwise just 'odd' flavour. I read the Moomintroll books years ago and they really had a deep effect on me. I still love Moominland Midwinter - a deceptively simple little book but with so many layers and depths of meaning - magical. If you look on my Goodreads book list, you'll see some of my recent reads, many of them really good and often a bit spooky or disturbing. I hope this helps, and it's lovely to 'talk' to you. Px
Pat Walsh
No firm date as yet. I'll post it on my website and here on Goodreads when I know.
Pat Walsh
There will be a third and final book in the Crowfield Mysteries series. Crowfield Rising picks up Will's and Shadlok's story a few months after the abbey is attacked by the demon. A terrible fay war is looming and a new and deadly enemy threatens the lives of all those who live in the abbey and the surrounding villages.
Crowfield Rising will be published in 2015, and further details will be available on my website closer to the time. Website: pat-walsh.com
Crowfield Rising will be published in 2015, and further details will be available on my website closer to the time. Website: pat-walsh.com
Pat Walsh
It sounds too obvious, but the answer is 'being able to write'. I get to create characters, and worlds for them to inhabit, give them lives and problems, make good and bad things happen to them, and sometimes they become more real than the people around me. I write because I have to and I'm not happy when for whatever reason I can't write.
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