Friday, June 28, 2013

AUTHOR, AUTHOR! Harper Fox


This week our guest is my dear friend Harper Fox. I think Harper is one of the most gifted writers I know, which makes the fact that she is also one of the most humble and appreciative all the more touching. She also has a wicked sense of humor and an unholy love for a gritty and goofy British crime drama from the 1970s called The Professionals.

Harper's latest book is a brilliant romantic saga of Vikings and monks called Brothers of the Wild North Sea. She's been talking about this book practically as long as I've known her, and it's turned out to be both a critical and commercial success. In fact, Publisher's Weekly gave it a starred review.

So, without further adieu...Harper Fox.


Didn't you start out as a poet? How did you end up wearing that viking helmet and quaffing meade?


Well, it's so embarrassing - I was meant to reincarnate as Charlotte Brontë but the karmic angel only had time for initials that day and... Well, here I am - Conan the Barbarian. Seriously (as far as I'm capable of serious), I did start out as a poet, yes, and I remain very proud of the work I had published in some tiny but reputable Northumbrian magazines which have since plunged into nonexistence for want of funds, thus adding to the poignancy of the whole situation. But I've always been an ordinary poet, or a poet of the ordinary, and I don't have separate sections of my brain assigned to poetry and prose. No, it all seems to come out of the same murky well, and in many ways Brothers Of The Wild North Sea is a poetic novel. Robust, hairy and sexy, but poetic, if poetry is the compression/channelling of much meaning and emotion into clear and lucid language and the ability to bring that far-flung shore right to your door. :-D Seriously seriously, I just like mead. And how I look in horns.


What do you tell literary pals who smile pityingly at you when you admit to writing romance? Or do you admit it?


I *do* admit it! I do, I do. My first admissions were overcompensating challenges: "I write ebook porn! Wanna make something of it?" Then I switched to defensive mode: "Yes, they're *categorised* as romances, but if you take the time to read them you may find they transcend their genre in sensitivity and substance." Now, through sheer exhaustion, I tell the truth. "I write erotic romances between men, mostly for the US ebook market." I do in fact have that archetypal literary pal, who to give her credit never smiled pityingly, but for whom I proved a bitter disappointment simply because a woman of my gifts is meant to starve in a garret, not catch a lucky niche wave in a genre she loves and do pretty well out of it!

What was the most interesting or surprising thing you learned while researching Brothers of the Wild North Sea?


God, I wish I could say it was a fascinating sidelight on religion or archaeology, but in fact it was underwear. I won't go into details - what, you think I'm gonna blow all my best bits right here?! - and you'll have to read the book to find out, but let's just say that Caius and Fen have something in common in that department.


Is it true your new home is haunted?


At the risk of sounding completely unhinged, I'm afraid so. Yes. Absolutely. The radio-monitor incident was horribly true in every detail. Mrs H and I avoided the subject with each other for months then had one of *those* conversations: "What? You feel like you're being watched from behind when you sit in that chair too? You too catch someone moving from the corner of your eye in the yard? You feel that chilly, heavy sensation in the front room?" Now, granted, we're both hysterical Lit grads scoring fifteen out of ten on the susceptibility scale, but it's getting a little odd. The lady who lived here before us did so happily for a very long time, but she had fourteen Alsatians and - well, let's just say "created her own atmosphere". It's okay. We're airing the place.


 Boxers or briefs? No, seriously. Why should this question be reserved for male authors? Why shouldn't everyone have to answer?


Why indeed? If I'm putting myself out there as a female author of M/M lit, I damn well should have to answer this question, and the answer is... BOTH! Oh, yes, both. When you have to write as many sex scenes as I do just to feed the kiddies and keep the missus in mink coats (*joke!!!* on both counts!) you need plenty of beneath-the-trouser variety just to keep things sparky. Or... Oh! Were you asking for my personal preference? Boxers, definitely. Cojones as big as mine need room to breathe. (Josh, if I've gone too far, please just censor that last bit.)

I wouldn't dream of it, my darling! ;-)


Are you a fulltime writer?


I am. Carve those two words with pride upon my rain-lashed, mossy tombstone, if you will. Er, in due course. I get up at six in the morning and write until nine. Those are my golden hours and if I miss them I spend the rest of the day in a dismal, self-flagellating slough of despond, having failed to answer my purpose in existing. I am actually that serious about it. I find I need to have two projects on the go - one "live" book and one either in the planning stages or finished and in edits, so after paying my dues to the house and Mrs H in terms of gardening/grouting/guttering, I'll attend to project #2 in the afternoons, and evenings are mostly given over to my braindead stuff, like marketing (as anyone who's witnessed my efforts in that department will testify). So, yes - I'm fulltime in the sense of spending my whole working day  as a writer, and also in the scary sense that my writing is now the sole income for our household. Did I say scary? I mean, of course, wonderful. Okay, scary *and* wonderful. Wonderful because I am *so* bloody proud and happy to have the privilege of supporting myself and the people I love in this way, and scary because - at the moment - it's a subsistence wage, a real scrape. But it's there, and it's getting better. Josh, you told me when I set out in this game that backlist was key to income, and I was all, like, "Dude, ain't nobody got time for that sh*t!" And I was right. I didn't. I had to do my Evil Day Job for another three years while I built my backlist. So - um - actually, that means *you* were right...


What's the last piece of music you listened to? Did you sing along?


"Work" by Iggy Azalea. Ought to be ashamed, a woman of my age, but there you are - I love it. "No money, no family, sixteen in the middle of Miami" - ah, I remember how it was, other than the giant generation gap and the totally different circumstances. Not only did I sing but but I tried the hooker-heel strut up and down the greenhouse in my wellies.


How did you and the missus meet?


Ah. Short, true story - just shy of twenty nine years ago, she emerged from a dark corridor in our university building, and her blue eyes shone with their own light, and her hair was like sunshine on a wheatfield, and that was it. Love at first sight. Happens!

What are you working on now?


My "live" project is my A Midwinter Prince sequel, The Lost Prince. Doing interviews with you is obviously very stimulating, Mr L, because I didn't realise until twenty seconds ago that the thing I've been calling AMP2 for months and months even *had* a name. But I like The Lost Prince. It's simple, and as you'll see, does exactly what it says on the tin. I love Laurie and Sasha very much and seeing them through the next stage of their relationship, the tough stuff that lies beyond first romance, is pretty intense. I'm beyond the halfway point now and am about to commit myself with an **ANNOUNCEMENT** - drum roll, naked Chippendales leaping out of cake - that I'll release The Lost Prince in August. Project #2 is my next novella, pinned up on the drawing board and decorated with a million post-it notes and enough arrows to keep the Wars of the Roses in business. This will be called Serpentine, and is set in the wonderful, magical countryside of the Lizard in Cornwall. I'm tackling a period piece for the first time, a post-WWII story, and I can't wait to get cracking on it.


What do you love most about writing? What do you like least?


Most - the dreaming stage, the planning, when everything is fluid and possible and my plot and protags are vibrantly alive to me. I think most writers will know what I mean - that golden time before you have to start making stuff make sense. :-D And the least - oh, the opposite of that, when the outline is written, the deadline is set, it's six in the morning and you have to write a sex scene with a migraine and no inspiration. Doesn't happen often, thank God, but you really meet the pure hard work of writing then. In a weird, bad way it's actually good, because it reminds me that, outside of those ecstatic times of being plugged right into the creative vibe of the universe, this is a job like any other, a possession and a privilege, and I need to treat it as such.

 

Have you ever broken a bone?


Yes, once. Very dramatic story. I was about seven years old and I walked through a field full of horses. Something spooked them and one of them ran me down. You know how horses are meant to do anything rather than step on a prone human body - well, mine had missed that memo, and I broke my collarbone. Now, remember this was back in the days before they had proper medicine, so I had to be kept in bed and immobilised for about three months because the bone had swung down near my lungs. I don't remember anything at all about this time except some brightly coloured building blocks, which I'm told I played with obsessively. Wouldn't read, wouldn't pay attention to my home tutor, nothing. I'd been quite bright up to this point, honest! I suppose it was just a shock response, and I did emerge, although I still gaze yearningly at Lego. But maybe I was in some kind of authorial larval stage, pupating the future, and those building blocks were symbols of brilliant plots to come! (Unlikely, yes, but I do clutch at straws from time to time in a desperate bid to explain myself to myself.)

What do you think is the most important thing to remember when creating fully realized main characters?


A convincing choice between boxers and briefs. Motivation is everything, really; you can't just have the guy turn up in scarlet Calvin Kleins one day for no reason at all. Seriously? The ability to step inside an MC's skin. That's all. Does it feel right in there? Does he walk, does he talk, does he feel and function as vibrantly as you do, or are you trapped outside him, painting his picture from there? If you're inside, you can conjure his perceptions, motivations, complexities - I won't say effortlessly, because it often hurts to make that transition and it doesn't always work - but certainly with conviction. I try to write novels where the MCs exist strongly in their own right and aren't just vehicles for the story. I know it's worked if, a couple of years after the book's been published, I can reach out with my mind and be quite sure what Tom and Flynn from Driftwood or Cam and Nichol from Scrap Metal are doing right now; if the characters have quickened so that they exist for me - and hopefully for my readers - beyond the limits of the book.

 

What is your most favorite dessert in all the world?


Oh, goodness, a really nice creme-de-five-star-review served up with royalty-cheque custard. :-D But I'm also a sucker for Mrs H's bread-and-butter pudding, made with Mighty White bread and big fat juicy raisins and nutmeg.

Is there any genre you'd like to tackle but you're kinda sorta afraid?


I'd like to write an out-and-out ghost story, and maybe Serpentine will be it. Maybe. I fear it because the feedback I get from readers is that they're not keen on paranormal elements in my work, and if there's one thing I value in this life, it's my readership. Hey, I have a readership! I'm faint and giddy even now at the thought. And I'm pretty scared of alienating or p*ssing off a good portion of the amazing people with whom I interact, with whom I've formed real friendships and whose opinions mean so much to me. But the idea of telling such a tale has a huge appeal for me - I was raised on MR James and Conan Doyle, and I love the little shiver down the spine, the glimpse beyond the veil, that a really good ghost story can deliver. Maybe my mission will be to convince the folks who don't like paranormals that they might just like *this* one...

 

Tell us something surprising. Anything. Go on. Surprise us!

I'm Aurignacian! Researching my family tree was a pretty short and depressing exercise, so I decided to skip all that recent malarkey and jump back 40,000 years or so via the National Geographic's human-genome DNA project. Yes, I - and several million other people, but it still feels kind of special - belong to the culture that produced the oldest-known example of figurative art, the Chauvet cave paintings and (debatably) the world's first musical instruments. Are you surprised yet? No? Okay, try this - you can't draw a counter-clockwise circle in the air whilst simultaneously circling your ankle clockwise.

Or *can* you?

Many thanks to my good friend and mentor Josh for hosting this interview and making you try!

43 comments:

  1. What a lovely treat for a wet morning to find an interview between two of my favourite authors! Harper, I am so glad that you decided not to starve in a garret and thus deprive us of your wonderful books. Obviously your literary pal has never actually read your work, or else she would have seen that it is just as good as so-called literary fiction, and a lot better than most of it. I just looked up "literary fiction", and found this:

    "works of literary fiction often are "complex, literate, multilayered novels that wrestle with universal dilemmas" and they "usually must be "critically acclaimed" and "serious"".

    I think your work qualifies on all counts!

    I'm concerned to hear that your lovely new home is probably haunted. I haven't heard about the radio monitor incident but the chilly, heavy sensation in the front room sounds nasty. I was so pleased to see that you're planning a book set on the Lizard, but I'm one of those readers who is begging you not to make it a ghost story. I don't like paranormal and I hate scary and creepy. I respect your right as an artist to do what you have to do, but my right as a reader is to be able to beg you please, please, do not go all paranormal on us!

    I am delighted to see that The Lost Prince will be out in a couple of months.

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    1. Hi, Helena! I'd tell you about the monitor but it's kind of late here, a wild Cornish gale howling round the house, and I think it mightn't be the best time... :-D

      I promise I won't go entirely paranormal on you, but I might ask you to avert your gaze while I pop one leeeeeetle tiny ghost story through. After that, back to my own skewed version of reality, I promise. Thank you for all your kind words. xxx

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  2. Although I've devoured every single Harper Fox novel in an embarrassing amount of time (made possible by a complete neglect of sleep, food, and other less important things), Midwinter Prince is my all time favorite. Just the mention of a sequel resulted in an undignified squeal :D

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    1. I think I heard you, Nishka! Thank you - such noises are very encouraging. I'm really glad you like my work.

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  3. Just finished Brothers and it made me do all those lovely things readers dream of--like cry and smile and sigh and hang on to the edge of the recliner. As a fan I've been wondering about many of the details you reveal here, so big thanks to Josh for asking all the right questions. :-) Absolutely can't wait for more Sasha and Laurie...and to fill up my reader with heaps o' Harper Fox in the future.

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    1. Thanks, Edie! I really like the image of you on your recliner with Caius and Fen. ;-D So pleased you enjoyed it. Josh is a terrific interviewer and always brings out the best in me, or at any rate the strangest.

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  4. What a great start to the day. Thanks!

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  5. Sooooo so happy to hear that Lost Prince not only has a name but a date. Off to work with another thing to smile about. Its been a brilliant week. :-D

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    1. So glad you've had a good week, m'dear, and only too happy that news of my (suddenly terrifying) release date has brightened it up even more. ;-D Hope your working day went wonderfully well xxx

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  6. Oh, what a lovely lovely interview! Thank you both!!!
    I was laughing with the first Q&As, then learning about the writing process, i'm a morning person, and it reminded me of my very similar schedule while writing my thesis (thank goodness that's over though) - writing is a job, otherwise it just doesn't get done, then i was worried about the ghost feeling thing at Harper's new home, i do hope it airs out soon! it's interesting how some places, people also i guess, have vibes, where do they really come from?, would be nice to have a scientific explanation for them when they happen in real life.

    I loved the book! (just finished it) Even though i don't usually read historical literary fiction (humph, people should really read before they box in things), i find that when i trust a writer (hey, Josh :)), i'm quite willing to take that chance. So i'd read a paranormal novel written by you any day (during a sunny morning most likely though).

    :)

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    1. I meant that i trust both Josh and Harper with any type of novel :-)

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    2. We will try to be worthy of that trust! ;-D

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    3. We will indeed, KC, though really you shouldn't trust me as much as you should trust Josh; he's way more reliable. ;-D I'm delighted you enjoyed Brothers. Don't worry about my haunting - I'm actually finding it rather inspiring, and what I'm hoping to do is offer - not lay down of course; I don't think we'll ever solve the mystery completely - a kind of scientific explanation for the events of Serpentine. Anyway, it's bubbling away in the cauldron now, and won't be *too* spine-chilling, I promise - I'm way too much of a chicken for that myself!

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  7. Josh and Harper, thanks so much for the interview. I just finished Brothers and loved it. I found myself immersed in the atmosphere of the late 600's...the rough but beautiful coast of Britain, the sounds of the sea and church bells and the feel of those wool cassocks. Just lovely. And I must confess that I now want a Viking of my own even more than ever. ;-) I'm also looking forward to Serpentine, Harper. I was just in Cornwall last year and walked part of the Lizard. It was beautiful...I can't wait to read your description of a place that I've actually seen.

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    1. You're most welcome, Cynthia. I'm so pleased you enjoyed Brothers and found the sensory detail convincing. I will send you along any spare Vikings I happen to find around the house. I think I'd quite like one like Fen myself! Yes, the Lizard is stunning. We were just there a couple of days ago with my niece and the whole place was alive with wildflowers, the cliffs and sea dazzling. I'll really enjoy setting a story there.

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  8. Happiness is reading an interview of one of my favorite authors by one of my favorite authors. Thank you, both, for your time, and making one more person smile.

    And yes, I admit, I tried ... and succeeded! :D
    (you didn't say anything about opposites) <3 xxx

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    1. Hah! No, I didn't, Lin, did I? I'd have a go myself right now except that it's really late here and I'm losing the ability to perform the simplest motor tasks, let alone circus-type ones. Very glad you enjoyed the interview! :-D

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  9. Thank you for this fun and informative interview. I love being able to see the thoughts behind the book and a bit about the lives of authors that I love. You're both such a hoot and I enjoy both of your personalities so much.
    This story is so intriguing and I had to purchase it right away of course because Harper's books are always a must buy. Now I just have to find the time to read it.

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    1. Diana, I enjoyed this hugely. I'm not great at blog entries and suchlike but I can rely on Josh to ask me questions, mostly about underwear, which will draw me out of my shy, retiring shell ;-D

      Delighted you bought Brothers. I hope you get some nice R&R time to read it soon. xxx

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  10. Good afternoon, all! First, big thanks to Josh for hosting this interview, and for asking such a range of pertinent and impertinent questions, to each of which I've striven to reply with suitable dignity. :-D Second, good grief, famous last words re the day job - I *was* pretty much flying free of it, but summer staff holidays have suddenly sent a lot of subtitling work my way, and because I still enjoy it and it's very useful extra income for the Haunted House, I'm grabbing it. Which means I'm a little up to my ears in it right now and not as sociable as I ought to be. But I am loving all these comments and it's so nice to see everyone here chez Mr Lanyon. I shall be here and more functional later, and hopefully then I'll get the chance to talk to you individually. Meantime, a big MWAH!!! and a "laters, dahlinks". Josh, thanks once again - you a mentor and mate of bloody unbelievable stature. xxx

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  11. What a fun way to take a break from housework an interview done by & with two of my absolute favorite authors. I absolute love everything and anything written be either one of you. But I do have to confess that 'Life After Joe' is one of my absolute favorite books and one of the few that I have read more than once or twice...ok maybe 3 or 4 times which for me is totally out of character (well except for the Adrian English books, might have read them 3 or 4 times too). Oh well back to the housework, thanks for the break time entertainment.

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    1. Hi Karen, delighted to have disrupted your housework! And, of course, to hear that you liked LAJ so much. I'm really honoured that you returned to it for several re-reads. It remains a favourite of mine too, so thank you very much!

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  12. Talk about titillating: ghosts/Conan Doyle? Did I miss anything important?

    Every since I discovered The Complete Sherlock Holmes at a friend's house at about age 11 I have been re-reading those stories at regular intervals - I'm not quite word perfect but getting there. So there's any other Conan Doyle I should have been reading as well??

    In the meantime: thanks for continuing to keep me enthralled (love that word :)).

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    1. Hello, dear Lia! I can't recommend too strongly The Best Supernatural Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle. I love his honest, square-up style which still retains openness to the mysteries he describes. Here's a link... http://www.amazon.com/Supernatural-Tales-Arthur-Conan-Doyle/dp/0486237257
      "Enthralled" is one of my favourite words too, and I'm glad I'm keeping you it. Er, which is one of my worst sentences ever - I really must go to bed! :-D

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  13. Thank you so much for this great interview, both of you! Since I finished reading Brothers a few days ago and was listening to Life After Joe while painting the plinth of our summer cottage today, it seems that the timing for this nice surprise couldn't be better! :)

    I have to say -- I loved, loved, loved Last Line, so yes, please, I'm all for the paranormal book! In fact: "Yay!" ;)

    One more thing. I'm going to visit Scotland for the first time in my life this summer and the destination of the trip is due to the fact that I've totally, hopelessly fallen in love with your beautiful description of Scotland, Harper. So thank you for that, too.

    Awesome questions, Josh. Brilliant answers, Harper. Thank you again!

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    1. Hello, dear Johanna! I'm delighting in the fact that you listened to one of my books whilst painting a plinth. And needless to say I'm bowled over that I've influenced your choice of a holiday destination. I hope you have a marvellous trip xxx

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  14. I love Harper Fox. She writes beautiful lyric prose that doesn't sound purple or overdone. I absolutely adored Scrap Metal, so I am really looking forward to her new projects.

    I am very grateful for the recommendation, I wouldn't have discovered Harper if you hadn't recommended her books. :)

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    1. Thank you, Vivian! I'm so glad you enjoy my work. And I'm endlessly grateful to Josh for sending me fresh victims... er, I mean "readers", of course! :-D

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  15. I'm glad so many readers love Harper as much as I do as it's the best way to ensure a never-ending supply of stories from her. :-)

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    1. Josh, I'm having a lovely time here, so thanks again for the chance to talk to all these nice folks. Yes, absolutely - I will feed on the love with vampiric hunger and photosynthesise it into stories, more stories! I'm not sure vampires photosynthesise, now I come to think about it, but maybe a vegan one would. Ah well, very tired now and off to suck out the juice from a cabbage :-D xxx

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  16. I love your books Harper. I really enjoyed meeting Cai and Fen, I was torn between wanting to finish it to find out what happened and not wanting to leave them when I finished it. I loved it! An epic story which totally drew me into their world. Can't wait for the next book.

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    1. That's wonderful, Justine. Thank you. I had a similar dilemma while I was writing the book - wanted to complete their story, didn't wan to leave them behind. :)

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  17. Holly Harper! If I'm being honest, you're one of a select few authors at the very top of my list for Buy It As Soon As Humanly Possible. I think I pre-ordered Brothers the day it became available and I was reading the day it posted. (And finished it!) As great as Fen and Cai are (and that thing they have in common... ;->) I think my top two favs are Half Moon Chambers and Nine Lights Over Edinburgh. Of course, those are rapidly followed by Driftwood, and The Salisbury Key, and Life After Joe... Eh, who am I kidding, it just depends on my mood. ;->

    Also, I only have an issue with paranormal when it feels sprung on me without warning when I hadn't been expecting it at all. I can't imagine you doing that sort of thing, and I would be at the front of the line to buy a paranormal from you. Really, you could probably write a phonebook and I'd still preorder it. ;->

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    1. Wow, thank you, Megan! I might take up the Phone Book Challenge one day just to see if I could make it interesting. I'm really delighted you enjoy my work so much.

      Yes, I know what you mean about being ambushed by paranormal elements in a tale. I'd need to write a book where those elements were woven into context, not just popped out at the last minute to explain otherwise inexplicable plot points. Hmm, the more I think about this project, the more I think I'd enjoy tackling it!

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  18. A fabulous interview both of you, two of my favourite authors at once, it's up there with good chocolate, music and tea in my lists of life's pleasures. But as for the brief v boxers debate, what's wrong with commando?

    I loved Brothers, and I wasn't sure I would. I thought it might bring back memories of my lost youth and hours spent perusing the Venomous Bede in the original and sweating through chunks of the Anglo Saxon Chronicle, in support of my friends who were reading English and having horrible difficulty. I was able to suppress those and the detailed knowledge I had of early mediaeval monasticism (one of my real interests when doing my degree - I have no idea why!)and enjoy the story. Nine Lights will always be my top favourite, but a bit of paranormality would be great, you did promise us a sequel to Last Line, which I adored and can't bear to read again at the moment as it leaves me with, 'Yes okay, but what happened next?' howling in my ears!

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    1. Hi, dear Seraphina! I'm honoured to make it u there with chocolate and tea, and I'm really glad you enjoyed Brothers. Particularly pleased that someone with your degree background managed to connect with the story. Goodness, I owe you and everyone else awaiting a sequel to Last Line a big apology - there has been a big delay on that one as I mull over the best progression for John and Mike. But there *will* be a sequel at some point, I do promise that! xxx

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  19. what a lovely interview of the lovely Harper Fox, Mr. Lanyon :) I thoroughly enjoyed the questions, the banter, and the delving into the background of her novels! My favourites are Driftwood & Last Line, which introduced me to Harper Fox and her world of writing, and all the others I've read since then are also great, but those 2 hold a special place in my heart. Again, lovely & funny interview :)

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    1. Thank you, all -- both for reading and for the kind comments. I'm so glad you enjoyed the interview. I'm very much enjoying sharing my pleasure in the work of my friends!

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  20. Finally caught up on this.
    So interesting, funny and exciting to hear what is to come.
    And Harper, I would so read a ghost story from you. I don't class myself as liking paranormal, but if written by the right author and not just churned out formulated stuff that seems to pass as literature at the moment, I quite enjoy it.
    I think, with the way you weave yours stories, Harper, it would be something special.
    Thank you Josh, for another great interview.

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    1. AW. That is so sweet. And I couldn't agree more.

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  21. Thank you Josh, for introducing Harper and her new book here. I just finished reading it and like it a lot! I was travelling on the Isle of Skye when reading it, and though the setting is definitely not there, it felt so right it almost moved me to tears. Thank you and love you both!

    BTW, there is already paranormal element in this story, isn't there? ;-)

    Savanna

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    1. Thanks for commenting, Savanna! I think Harper is secretly sympathetic to ghosts, and they sense that. :-)

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