Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction

I’m getting a little nervous – it’s not something I often do. I’m nearly ready to publish my latest book, well six weeks away perhaps. However, I don’t even have the definitive title yet. I have a working title that has served me well – Flint Cottage.

Flint Cottage is the setting for the story which is based on truth. I usually include true experiences of my own in each of my books – bet you can’t guess which bits are true though! At least I hope not. However, the opening chapter of Flint Cottage is sort of true. I did move into Flint Cottage, I did experience strange happenings and I did have an upstairs neighbour who asked me “Have you seen them?” Her husband did become famous and that’s only one of the reasons why the story becomes fictionalized.

Here's the opening sentence: “From the outside Eleanor saw no discernible reason why Flint Cottage should be dirt cheap to rent.”

If you were offered somewhere that looked like a dream cottage in an English country village and it was dirt cheap, would you take it without viewing it? Perhaps you would if there was usually very little available to rent at a price you could afford? Perhaps you would if you had walked out on a no-good two-timing whatsit and had nowhere else to go? Might it seem like a dream come true?

The story becomes fictionalized in the very first chapter but truth drops in here, there and not quite everywhere! I knew that what happened in Flint Cottage was beyond belief but an idea began to take shape though I was reluctant to tell the tale. Maybe, I thought, maybe one day… Then strangely (!) I was contacted by someone I hadn’t heard from in over 30 years. He’d learnt that I am now an author and he wondered why I hadn’t told the tale of Flint Cottage. Well, apart from Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’ I don’t remember ever reading a ghost story and writing one was definitely not my thing. Then a story took shape in my head and I had to get writing.

Flint Cottage is almost ready to be released into the big, wide world. Of course, I hope you will love it. I also hope you will not be coerced into catching any late-night trains.
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And to end with a quotation – I have taken one from the soon-to-be-published book:

"A dog has lots of friends because it wags its tail and not its tongue."

True?