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Virginia King
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GET A TASTE OF THE SELKIE MOON MYSTERY SERIES
Download the eerie prequel Laying Ghosts here: http://www.selkiemoon.com/
When a voice wakes you up in the middle of the night and tells you to write a mystery series, what’s a writer to do? That’s how I came to create Selkie Moon, after a massage from a strange woman with gifted hands was followed by this nocturnal message. I sat down at the keyboard until Selkie Moon turned up -- a modern woman with a mythical name. Soon I was hooked, exploring far-flung places full of secrets where Selkie delves into psychological clues tangled up in the local mythology.
Before Selkie Moon invaded my life, I'd been a teacher, an unemployed ex-teacher, the author of over 50 children’s books, an audio-book produc ...more
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Laying Ghosts (Selkie Moon Mystery, #0.5)
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The First Lie (Selkie Moon Mystery, #1)
— published 2014 — 9 editions |
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On the Spooky Trail: Travels in Supernatural Wales
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The Second Path (Selkie Moon Mystery, #2)
— published 2015 — 2 editions |
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The Third Note (Selkie Moon Mystery, #3)
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Leaving Birds
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Ideas are everywhere. But it takes some practice to notice them, then add a dash of imagination to tweak them into something bigger. In this post, I explain how the weird and unexpected turned up when I was doing something else. I’m using it as a springboard for creating clues and threads in Selkie Moon’s next mystery, with a little help from her fans ...
Succeptible to Serendipity
I caught a...
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“The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented. It is that crossed border which attracts me most. For beyond that border begins the secret the novel asks about.”
― Milan Kundera
― Milan Kundera
“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth
“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
“The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock—shock is a worn-out word—but astonish.”
― Terry Southern
― Terry Southern
“Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it's we women who control magic.”
― J.G. Ballard, Rushing to Paradise
― J.G. Ballard, Rushing to Paradise
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