…a regular visitor to this wee blog o’ mine is great pal, Melodie Campbell… not only is she an accomplished comedienne, the lady also writes up a storm as an Author…
…her Land’s End Trilogy is currently in the Top 50 ALL Books on Amazon!
..check it out here :
…here she explains her reasons for writing that series:
Confessions of a Literary Slut (“Outlander meets Sex and the City ” or Why I Write Wacky Time Travel in addition to respectable crime)
By Melodie Campbell
I am best known as a writer of comic crime capers, and in particular The Goddaughter series (Orca Books). However, I also have a second life as an author of racy fantasy…the sort of thing that has been called “The Princess Bride with Sex.”
Why? Why would a moderately respectable crime author swap genres and write a wacky time travel series, set in Arizona and Alternate-world Great Britain?
- I like Arizona. Especially in winter. You can fly nonstop there from Toronto.
(Whoops – delete, delete. Of course, the real reason for using Arizona is I believe in accuracy of setting and doing research, which I take great pains to do once each year in February.)
I like Great Britain. And I like to be accurate. But you can’t travel to medieval Great Britain right now, at least not on WestJet. (WHY doesn’t someone invent a cheap time travel airline?) So I can’t be accurate, which bugs me a lot. But I can be silly, which is almost as good. Hence, Alt-world.
- My cousin Tony’s family, the Clegg-Hills, used to own a Norman castle in Shropshire. Unfortunately it burned down in 1556. Damned careless of them. I had to make up what it would look like from family stories, which are probably dubious at best, and vaguely criminal, on reflection. Also, I hate being sued. Hence, Alt-world.
- Fessing up, here. I actually didn’t mean to write funny time travel. I meant to write a serious whodunit that would get the respect of the Can-Lit crowd, and the more erudite members of Crime Writers of Canada. This ‘veering from plan’ is becoming a nuisance. Next book, for sure, will be a serious whodunit. Okay, maybe a whodunit. Okay, maybe a book.
- Okay, I lied. The serious whodunit turned into a wacky mob comedy series that has won a Derringer and an Arthur. Still no respect from the Can-Lit crowd. So I might as well go back to writing wacky time travel.
Why? ‘Cause it’s a hell of a lot of fun being a literary slut.
Melodie’s bestselling Land’s End Trilogy (“OUTLANDER meets SEX AND THE CITY” Vine review) is on sale for a ridiculous 99cents this week! If you were ever curious about her ‘other life’…’nuf said…
..and here’s a little bonus… the cover of the third title in the trilogy…don’t say yeez never get a proper tease on this blog!…
…see yeez later… LUV YEEZ!…
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Sounds good. Thanks for the review Melodie and for sharing Seumas.
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..thank you, Suzanne 🙂
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Oh, I’m willing to ‘share Seumas’ – grin. But only occasionally.
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…half a tin of tuna and I’m emb’dy’s , m’Lady:)
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Thank you for the shares, Owl Lady! I’ll check those sites out.
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