Ask the Author: David Penny
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David Penny
Hi Christine - Number 6 "The Fortunate Dead" is with my editor at the moment, and number 7 is being plotted this month.
There will be at least one more after that set in Spain, and then I'm considering bringing Thomas home and writing a whole new set of books in England. Early Tudor period, Catherine of Aragon - a lot of material there :)
There will be at least one more after that set in Spain, and then I'm considering bringing Thomas home and writing a whole new set of books in England. Early Tudor period, Catherine of Aragon - a lot of material there :)
David Penny
Hi Annie - I don't think I've ever written any books about Mid Wales, unless it's you can take the man out of Mid Wales but never Mid Wales out of the man. In which case everything I write is about Mid Wales.
Although... maybe, because the hero of my latest book comes from the Shropshire borderlands which might count, I guess.
I have a couple of crime novels on the back-boiler, one of which is set in the Mid Wales area. You'd like it, if it ever gets written, because the detectives mother is based on Ruth (you remember her?) and he leaves home to escape his hippy upbringing but then has to return when he's disgraced.
Although... maybe, because the hero of my latest book comes from the Shropshire borderlands which might count, I guess.
I have a couple of crime novels on the back-boiler, one of which is set in the Mid Wales area. You'd like it, if it ever gets written, because the detectives mother is based on Ruth (you remember her?) and he leaves home to escape his hippy upbringing but then has to return when he's disgraced.
David Penny
I don't believe in writer's block, not at all.
Sit down and write. It's not rocket science, after all. One word follows another, and if enough of them follow you've got a short story, a novella or a book.
Sit down and write. It's not rocket science, after all. One word follows another, and if enough of them follow you've got a short story, a novella or a book.
David Penny
You can create your own worlds, your own characters, and sometimes that magic happens and you can watch as those characters take over and lead you somewhere you never envisioned.
David Penny
Write a lot, and keep on writing. You can learn craft by studying books, attending courses and conferences, but nothing at all can replace practice.
David Penny
The follow up to The Red Hill. This one continues to involved Thomas Berrington and the eunuch Jorge, but is much darker and bleaker than the first book, and takes them away from Garnatah and introduces new settings and new characters, who will come back in future episodes.
David Penny
By everything. A friend asked me only this week where my ideas come from. As any other writer will tell you - we don't worry about where ideas come from, we worry about how to sift out the ones we want to work on.
Everything inspires a writer.
Everything inspires a writer.
David Penny
It came is an instant, almost fully formed - and not just the first book, but an entire season. Something on the news triggered the thought that the Moorish civilization which existed in Spain for over 700 years has had little contemporary fiction written about it.
And then I got the idea of an englishman who finds himself embedded into that civilization as a working physician who gets asked to investigate a crime.
And then I got the idea of an englishman who finds himself embedded into that civilization as a working physician who gets asked to investigate a crime.
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