Gracie
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M.C. Beaton:
I follow your posts on Facebook and sometimes I feel like you are describing Agatha and not yourself! Do you ever take an incident from your life and plop it into one of your books? If so, can you tell us an example please? I am very much enjoying "The Blood of an Englishman" at the moment!
M.C. Beaton
Yes, I do take bits out of my own life to use in the detective stories. For example, a mineral water company wanted to take away the water from the village spring. The vote lay with the parish council and it was turned down. But, I thought, what if someone had shares in the company and the chairman of the parish council had the deciding vote? Well, he’d end up dead, wouldn’t he?
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Lourdes Haviland
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M.C. Beaton:
Hello! I have read all of your Agatha and Hamish books and adore them. They are like old friends that I relate to and whose company I look forward to. Every time Agatha's hip twinged, mine would, too! I'm there! You are such a wonderful writer. I wish you all the best! Ok, on to my question: will Hamish ever accept promotion and maybe even take the horrible Inspector Blair's job?
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