Ask the Author: Martin Smallridge
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Martin Smallridge
That's a good question, but if any of my secrets were to become part of the book narrative, it would at the same time cease to function within the concept of a mystery and become a mere component of a well-known biography. However, I prefer mysteries that remain as such.
Martin Smallridge
The idea came a long time ago, but I think the basic impulse to write "The mills kept grinding" came from meetings, workshops I attended while still in high school, with people who had lived through the war and often took part in it as soldiers or were members of various auxiliary services. Also, if not primarily, there were the stories of my father, who fought from the very first day of the war, and of my mother, who was only 11 when the war broke out.
Martin Smallridge
A light, easy and enjoyable novel of the historical genre, set in post-Napoleonic realities about the adventures of a young writer and publisher named Zacharie Blanchard: "The Peculiar Incidents of Zacharie Blanchard". So far I have written 3 chapters, but I think that the book will see the light of day at the beginning of 2022.
Martin Smallridge
Inspiration usually comes out of the blue. Sometimes you see something, sometimes you hear something. Often these are strangers, people I don't know from whom I heard something in a tram or a store. and sometimes quite the opposite, from family and loved ones. We are limited only by our cognitive abilities and willingness to draw from the world around us - inspiration is abundant, we just need to reach for it.
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