Ask the Author: C.L. Spillard
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C.L. Spillard
Fab - thanks for letting me know!
Hope you're enjoying it.
Hope you're enjoying it.
C.L. Spillard
The elderly lady who lived next door but 1 to the pub in the village when I was a kid (we moved out in 1980) would always stand at her door when we (village kids) walked to/from school.
A glimpse of the house interior showed something like the 1940s.
Nobody, it seemed, ever spoke to her.
She was called Nelly. Pretty sure she lived alone.
Now I wonder what her story was...
A glimpse of the house interior showed something like the 1940s.
Nobody, it seemed, ever spoke to her.
She was called Nelly. Pretty sure she lived alone.
Now I wonder what her story was...
C.L. Spillard
I wrote a review - it should be up here somewhere! I gave it 5 stars - I love the way he uses H.G. Wells' writing style.
C.L. Spillard
Yes I do! It's called Harvest Home (strapline: You reap what you sow) and it concerns Verity and one of the villains from the detention camp (and Stan Mills of course!)
It's in final edits, after which I'm going to run it past the publishers of The Evening Lands to see if they want to give it a go.
It's in final edits, after which I'm going to run it past the publishers of The Evening Lands to see if they want to give it a go.
C.L. Spillard
'The Evening Lands' is the second of Verity Player's adventures (the first is 'The Price of Time') - but it stands as a story in its own right.
But whether or not I have a redeeming feature is probably not for me to say :) !
But whether or not I have a redeeming feature is probably not for me to say :) !
C.L. Spillard
Hm... firstly the satirical elements. The drug ('the Meds') is a satire on the overwork culture that we seem to've imported from the USA.
But some of the story is the absolute truth. P.E.A.C.E. really exists, and has, as the narrative says, been proven effective - by criminologists from Liverpool. 'Kate' the police officer is real and her interview method - and the mugging that led to it, are based upon an incident that happened to me in the 80s.
I wrote up details about that incident, and my research about police interview techniques, on blog posts beginning with this one: https://insurrealtime.wordpress.com/2...
The tiny blackouts from sleep deprivation are also a genuine effect.
But some of the story is the absolute truth. P.E.A.C.E. really exists, and has, as the narrative says, been proven effective - by criminologists from Liverpool. 'Kate' the police officer is real and her interview method - and the mugging that led to it, are based upon an incident that happened to me in the 80s.
I wrote up details about that incident, and my research about police interview techniques, on blog posts beginning with this one: https://insurrealtime.wordpress.com/2...
The tiny blackouts from sleep deprivation are also a genuine effect.
C.L. Spillard
I wished for a long, hot summer.
My wish was granted - it will last a thousand years...
My wish was granted - it will last a thousand years...
C.L. Spillard
Greetings, person from the Southern Hemisphere (or else you're planning W-A-Y ahead, asking me about summer reads in September)!
Given the York setting I'd like to read Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. I also happened upon free copies of Wings by Terry Pratchett and The Guilt of Innocents by Candace Robb so I'd like to read those too!
Given the York setting I'd like to read Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. I also happened upon free copies of Wings by Terry Pratchett and The Guilt of Innocents by Candace Robb so I'd like to read those too!
C.L. Spillard
I just think of some problem or predicament that the world has. How do real people react to it (for example: corruption). And I'm away!
C.L. Spillard
This time of year, when it's frosty and it doesn't get light til nearly 9, it's not having to go out into the cold to commute to work!
Instead, I get to go into another world! At present, that's a future Steampunk Russia, with runaway dissidents, mad Countesses and venal Commissars...
Instead, I get to go into another world! At present, that's a future Steampunk Russia, with runaway dissidents, mad Countesses and venal Commissars...
C.L. Spillard
I've finished a steampunk fantasy, set two centuries in the future, in Russia. Electronics has been wiped out years ago by a massive solar flare.
There's a naive dissident, a scheming Countess, a venal Commissar and a colour-blind Siberian night huntress who, as part of the search for the missing dissident, has had to accept an assignment in St Petersburg high society.
Oh yes and she may, or may not, be gay...
There's a naive dissident, a scheming Countess, a venal Commissar and a colour-blind Siberian night huntress who, as part of the search for the missing dissident, has had to accept an assignment in St Petersburg high society.
Oh yes and she may, or may not, be gay...
C.L. Spillard
I ask random people for prompt-words.
C.L. Spillard
Everybody says "Write Every Day". It's true, you really get into it. But at the moment I'm just writing a haiku every day!
You can find them here:
https://insurrealtime.wordpress.com/2...
You can find them here:
https://insurrealtime.wordpress.com/2...
C.L. Spillard
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