Ask the Author: P.F. Ford
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P.F. Ford
Hi Maureen,
There will be more from Dave and Norm, but probably not until Spring 2018. However, I will be publishing a new novel featuring a new character early in October this year.
Pete
There will be more from Dave and Norm, but probably not until Spring 2018. However, I will be publishing a new novel featuring a new character early in October this year.
Pete
P.F. Ford
I have to go back a long, long way for the answer to this. My first author hero was Leslie Thomas. I stumbled across him in the sixties. Now there was a man who could tell a story and make you laugh - he was everything I would love to be in a writer.
Thomas dreamt up a character called Dangerous Davies, The Last Detective, so called because he was pretty much the last person you would want to send to solve a crime. Dangerous had a friend called Mod. These two oddballs are my favourite fictional couple because they always solved the mystery and made me laugh at the same time. Perfect!
Thomas dreamt up a character called Dangerous Davies, The Last Detective, so called because he was pretty much the last person you would want to send to solve a crime. Dangerous had a friend called Mod. These two oddballs are my favourite fictional couple because they always solved the mystery and made me laugh at the same time. Perfect!
P.F. Ford
With great difficulty! The more I worry about it, the worse it gets, so I tend to walk away from it and do something else. Dog walking often works for me.
P.F. Ford
Just start writing, and understand you'll never please everyone so there's no point in trying!
P.F. Ford
I have plots for the next two DS Dave Slater murder/mystery novels, an Alfie Bowman novel, and something completely different set in 1969.
The problem is deciding which to do first, but right now, having just finished the second DS Dave Slater novel, the characters are alive and well and filling my head so it makes sense to keep it that way!
The problem is deciding which to do first, but right now, having just finished the second DS Dave Slater novel, the characters are alive and well and filling my head so it makes sense to keep it that way!
P.F. Ford
I get most of my ideas from TV shows, books and films, and sometimes even from watching TV news! Rather than just copy an idea, I like to try and add a twist or even combine two or three ideas and come up with a variation on the original idea. I have a whole host of ideas that have evolved in this way and are waiting to be developed further.
However, the idea for my latest book, 'Just a Coincidence', was a simple 'what if?'. In this case it was 'what if a body was found and there was no obvious way it could have got there?'
From there I just asked the questions: Where did it come from? How did it get there? Why was she murdered?
My imagination did the rest!
However, the idea for my latest book, 'Just a Coincidence', was a simple 'what if?'. In this case it was 'what if a body was found and there was no obvious way it could have got there?'
From there I just asked the questions: Where did it come from? How did it get there? Why was she murdered?
My imagination did the rest!
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