All about The Maudlin Wives Inn

By Mik

After the research that went into writing Two Old Twitchers I felt like a change. I'd been liberated somewhat by finally getting a book out and now I just wanted to write in a completely different way on a completely different subject for no reason other than because I could. 

Turns out that it's a great reason to write. The first few pages took a bit of work but once I had the voice just the way I wanted it I was away and Esther Quill was born. 
Esther is an amazing character. She looks at life from a whole different perspective and as such gets herself into some fun situations, from which, as a writer, are interesting to get her out. 

If I were to write the boring blurb bit that you see on the backs of books it would go something like this: Esther fell in love with a building on England's Cornish Coast in a village named Fisherman's Rest. The building was an old tavern from the 1700's that due to a local tragedy was renamed The Maudlin Wives Inn. 

Esther took the inn and turned it into a cafe and bookshop and whilst establishing her business, set about solving the mystery of what exactly happened with the tragedy that gave the inn it's name. She does this with the help of the locals.

But I'm not a big fan of the boring blurb bits as I'm not a big fan of boring in general. So I'll leave you with a conversation that shows what The Maudlin Wives Inn is like.

Teaser:

"We will be putting this town on the map!" declared Mrs. Kent loudly to the assembled throng of village folk that had set up their headquarters in my Inn.

I raised my hand. 

Mrs. Kent beamed at me. "Yes, Esther?"

"It's already there."

The beam dimmed.

"What's already there, dear?"

"Fishermans Rest."

She was becoming confused. 

My boredom was dissipating by the second.

"Fishermans Rest is already where, dear?"

"On the map. It's how I found it to begin with. Followed the little red line till it became an even littler red line. The red line stopped. This was at the end of it."

Silence.

I had made my point.

I might attend more of these meetings. 

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(Read another excerpt here)

Mik