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Goodreads asked Ronald McGowan:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Ronald McGowan Do you mean my most recently published, or the one I am working on now?
For the one I am working on now, so many people made helpful suggestions about what they would rather have seen in "To Make sport for our Neighbours" that I thought it would be a good idea to take them onboard.
Given that there was no point going over the 'Pride and Prejudice' bit again, I took to thinking about what else would be happening after Lizzie and Jane got married, and remembered that Wickham and Lydia had moved to Newcastle.
Since I am from that part of the world myself (although Newcastle is the traditional enemy), I thought it would be interesting to see what Mr Bennet thought of the part of England where all the real progress was happening in his day, and everything flowed from there.
For 'Miss Dashwood's Dilemma', I simply wanted to do one about Margaret from Sense and Sensibility, another character too often neglected. I find that if I sit down and start thumping keys, while thinking of what the character would have done in her circumstances, ideas tend to come along. Or not. I have a question about writer's block to answer and you might like to check that when I get round to it.
On this question of reader comment, I never know what to do about translating the quotes etc in my narrative, and have often wondered whether I should do annotated editions.
I am currently setting up a blog, and this will be the first subject I comment on.
Thanks for your interest,
Ron.

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