Ask the Author: Kate Parker
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Kate Parker
Yes, Taryn, I've started a third Milliner Mystery, as yet untitled. There's still a lot of planning to go into the story, but all of your favorites will be there, including some of the characters from the Victorian Bookshop Mysteries who will have a role in trying to rescue Lady Kaldaire from the gallows!
Kate Parker
I asked Tantor, the company that put the first two Deadly books on Audible, if they'd be interested in making Deadly Fashion. They said no. I plan to attempt to do it myself, but it is an expensive proposition. Due to my family situation, 2018 has not been a good one financially, but I hope in 2019 to have the money to put both Deadly Fashion and Deadly Deception, the next in the series out in early 2019, onto Audible.
1n 2019, I had Deadly Fashion and Deadly Deception made into audiobooks with the same narrator, Henrietta Meire, who did the first two. Then in 2021, I've had Deadly Travel and Deadly Darkness made into audiobooks, again with Ms. Meire. All were put out by Findaway Voices and are available at 40 different retailers.
1n 2019, I had Deadly Fashion and Deadly Deception made into audiobooks with the same narrator, Henrietta Meire, who did the first two. Then in 2021, I've had Deadly Travel and Deadly Darkness made into audiobooks, again with Ms. Meire. All were put out by Findaway Voices and are available at 40 different retailers.
Kate Parker
Yes, Rachel, I am American. Any terms I use correctly from the British point of view I've learned from British readers contacting me or writing reviews and pointing out my mistakes. I save every one so that I don't make the same mistake twice. Of course, that probably means I'll make a new mistake in the next book, and I'll hope that if I do, someone will point that out to me.
Good news! I have a Britishisms editor. Leslie Floyd has edited all of my books to replace errors such as this. Hopefully Deadly Scandal, and the whole Deadly Series, read better now. (from late 2020)
Not surprisingly, the mistakes I make are not ones I pick up on my trips to Britain or on British import TV mysteries. Nor are they mistakes picked up by my copy editor or proofreader, both American. I do have a friend who writes Regency romance and who would catch these mistakes. I'll have her edit Deadly Deception, the next in the Deadly series, for any obvious Americanisms.
Good news! I have a Britishisms editor. Leslie Floyd has edited all of my books to replace errors such as this. Hopefully Deadly Scandal, and the whole Deadly Series, read better now. (from late 2020)
Not surprisingly, the mistakes I make are not ones I pick up on my trips to Britain or on British import TV mysteries. Nor are they mistakes picked up by my copy editor or proofreader, both American. I do have a friend who writes Regency romance and who would catch these mistakes. I'll have her edit Deadly Deception, the next in the Deadly series, for any obvious Americanisms.
Kate Parker
I'm glad you like the Deadly series. Livvy is fun to write since she can be such a prickly character. I plan to have the fourth Deadly book, Deadly Deception, out the end of this year.
Kate Parker
I would go to Saint Mary Mead and join Miss Marple (who will always look like Joan Hickson in my mind) in crime solving while enjoying village life in a slower paced world. In today's frantic paced, crowded, and often unfriendly world, there is a seductive pull toward the past if only in a few hours escape in a book. And I love murder mysteries!
Kate Parker
Hi, Karen. I'm working on Deadly Fashion right now! I just came back from a trip to England where I did some research for this next story in the Deadly series, plus the one after it, Deadly Deception. I hope to have Deadly Fashion out this year.
I'm glad you've enjoyed the first two Deadly stories and the Victorian Bookshop Mysteries.
I'm glad you've enjoyed the first two Deadly stories and the Victorian Bookshop Mysteries.
Kate Parker
No mysteries in my life. With no drama sapping my imagination, I'm free to dream up all sorts of devious plots and sneaky, crazy bloodshed. And then I can share all my wild ideas with my readers.
Kate Parker
I'm glad to say Olivia's next adventure is out for pre-order now. Deadly Wedding takes the reader into the spring of 1938, when all hearts turn to love...and murder.
Kate Parker
I don't know. I hope to write the story of Georgia and the Duke's wedding and Georgia's attempts to find a missing man who recently returned from Egypt and have it for you in 2017. After that, I've pictured them on a shooting holiday in Scotland for their honeymoon. Doesn't sound like Georgia's idea of a good time, does it? We'll have to see.
Kate Parker
While there won't be any Victorian Bookshop Mysteries out in 2016, I can't wait to tell the story of Georgia getting ready for her wedding while looking into the mystery of a missing man who has recently returned from Egypt.
Kate Parker
Hi, Julie. The next Victorian Bookshop mystery, titled The Royal Assassin, is due out in July. I'm glad you enjoyed The Vanishing Thief and The Counterfeit Lady, and hope you enjoy Georgia and the duke's next adventure.
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