Ask the Author: David Linzee
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David Linzee
I would go to Anthony Trollope's London, where I would have tea with Lady Glen, talk politics with Planty Pal, and later join Phinny Finn for angst and whiskey.
David Linzee
As a tenant, I served on a community improvement board with some of my neighborhood's biggest landlords. They called a meeting and a vote on selling a building the board owned to a major investor. We debated the pros and cons and I voted for the sale....LITTLE DID I KNOW (as they say in mystery novels) that as part of the same transaction, my landlord was selling the building I lived in to the same major investor. Though my landlord was sitting next to me at the meeting, not a word did he breathe to me until the story broke in the newspapers. The result? My rent went up steeply under the new landlord. But a writer makes capital of his worst moments, as Maugham said. This was the only time that I was the victim of an intrigue (and found out about it later) and I made the incident the heart of ONE FELL SWOOP, my latest novel.
David Linzee
Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane, because after many vicissitudes they end up happily married, and that doesn't happen often in fiction. Not that often in real life, either!
David Linzee
I write something even if I think it's really bad. Later, in a better mood, I'll revise it.
David Linzee
The writing itself. Everything else about being a professional writer isn't what it's cracked up to be.
David Linzee
Get a day job and keep it.
David Linzee
Revising Renata Radleigh Opera Mystery #2, in which readers will see Renata at home in London. Brother Don will find an entirely new way of getting in big trouble.
David Linzee
Not sure I know what inspiration is. Ideas come to me, then bug me until I write them up. Is that inspiration?
David Linzee
From real life--my own, to be exact. SPUR OF THE MOMENT is about the glorious make-believe world of opera--and how you get the money to put one on, which in this case is from a medical researcher who has discovered a wonder drug. I learned about the former when I was a volunteer extra--a supernumerary--in an opera, and the latter when I was a public relations man for a medical school.
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