#38 Inside the Emotion of Fiction's MURDER BY ANY NAME by Suzanne M. Wolfe

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Name of fiction work? And were there other names you considered that you would like to share with us? A Murder By Any Name (Crooked Lane Books, 2018); 1^st novel in Elizabethan spy murder mystery series.

Fiction genre?  Ex science fiction, short story, fantasy novella, romance, drama, crime, plays, flash fiction, historical, comedy, movie script, screenplay, etc.  And how many pages long?  Historical fiction. approximately 90K words.

Has this been published? And it is totally fine if the answer is no.   If yes, what publisher and what publication date?  Yes. published by Crooked Lane Books.

What is the date you began writing your most recently published novel and the date when you completed the most recently published novel? I began writing in summer of 2016 and completed it by fall 2016

Where did you do most of your writing for your most recently published novel? And please describe in detail. And can you please include a photo? I have a desk in a bedroom. All that is required, as Virginia Woolf  (Right) famously said, is “a room of my own” where I can shut the door. I need privacy and quiet in order to write. I have never been able to write in public places like coffee shops or travelling.

What were your writing habits while writing your most recently published novel? Did you drink something as you wrote, listen to music, write in pen and paper, directly on laptop; specific time of day? I got up at 6am every morning 7 days a week and wrote for as long as I could. I use a laptop and do not play any music. My desk faces a window but I keep the blinds down so I will not be tempted to look at the view. When I am writing to deadline, I will also write in the evenings until about 11pm.

What is the summary of this specific fiction work? The court of Elizabeth I (Right) is thrown into chaos when the Queen’s youngest lady-in-waiting is murdered. Solving this murder will require the cunning and savvy possessed by only one man. Enter Nicholas Holt, younger brother of the Earl of Blackwell—spy, rake, and owner of the infamous Black Sheep tavern in the seedy district of Bankside. On the trail of a diabolical killer, Nick and his faithful sidekick—an enormous Irish wolfhound named Hector—are treading on treacherous ground, and only the killer’s head on a platter can keep them in the Queen’s good graces.

Can you give the reader just enough information for them to understand what is going on in the excerpt? Nick Holt, my sleuth, is viewing the body of Queen Elizabeth I’s youngest lady-in-waiting. She has been murdered and her body left on the high altar of the Chapel Royal in Whitehall. Here, he recalls seeing her when she was alive.

Please include the most emotional excerpt you wrote from your most recently published novel. The excerpt can be as short or as long as you prefer. From Murder By Any Name  “His gaze moved farther down the body. There was no other damage. A mercy. A brief vision of Cecily, alive and laughing, came to him: He had been strolling by the river on the Carew estate one evening at dusk when he heard a splash. Thinking he had disturbed a waterfowl from its nest in the reeds, he’d scanned the river and seen a lithe white body emerge above the surface and then dive down again like a sleek albino otter. He had crouched in the grass watching, entranced by the girl’s innocent play, a river naiad straight out of the tales of Ovid. When she had begun to swim toward the bank, he stole silently away, not wanting to frighten or shame her. Her innocence had stayed with him and provided a kind of solace in a world neck-deep in lust, greed, treachery, and death. Now that loveliness had been callously snuffed out. Nick vowed to find the monster responsible and hand him over to the executioner to be hung, drawn, and quartered, for surely only a low-born varlet’s death could atone for such a sin. ‘Find the one who did this, Holt,’ the Queen said, as if reading his thoughts. ‘And bring him to me for, by Christ, I will not suffer such a man to live.’”

Why is this excerpt so emotional for you? And can you describe your own emotional experience of writing this specific excerpt? It is emotional because the passage describes the violation of something pure and innocent by something deeply evil. I felt the same outrage as Nick and Queen Elizabeth 1st and the same desire for justice.

Other works you have published?

The Confessions of X (HCC, 2016)

Unveiling (Paraclete Press, 2018)

The Course of All Treasons (Crooked Lane Books, Dec. 2019)

Suzanne M. Wolfe grew up in England and read English Literature at Oxford University. Wolfe is the author of The Confessions of X, winner of Christianity Today’s 2017 Book of the Year Award, and Unveiling. She lives in the Pacific Northwest.

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INSIDE THE EMOTION OF FICTION links

001   11 15 2018 Nathaniel Kaine’s

Thriller Novel

John Hunter – The Veteran

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/11/001-inside-emotion-of-fiction-nathaniel.html

002   11 18 2018 Ed Protzzel’s

Futuristic/Mystery/Thriller

The Antiquities Dealer 

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/11/002-inside-emotion-of-fiction-ed.html

003   11 23 2018 Janice Seagraves’s

Science Fiction Romance

Exodus Arcon

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/11/003-inside-emotion-of-fiction-exodus.html

004   11 29 2018 Christian Fennell’s

Literary Fiction Novel

The Fiddler in the Night

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/11/004-inside-emotion-of-fiction-christian.html

005  12 02 2018 Jessica Mathews’s

Adult Paranormal Romance

Death Adjacent

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/12/5-inside-emotion-of-fiction-jessica.html

006  12 04 2018 Robin Jansen’s

Literary Fiction Novel

Ruby the Indomitable

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/12/006-inside-emotion-of-fiction-robin.html

007  12 12 2018  Adair Valerez’s

Literary Fiction Novel

Scrim

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/12/007-inside-emotion-of-fiction-adair.html

008  12 17 218 Kit Frazier’s

Mystery Novel

Dead Copy

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/12/008-inside-emotion-of-fiction-kit.html

009 12 21 2019 Robert Craven’s

Noir/Spy Novel

The Road of a Thousand Tigers

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/12/009-inside-emotion-of-fiction-robert.html

010 01 13 2019 Kristine Goodfellow’s

Contemporary Romantic Fiction

The Other Twin

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/01/010-inside-emotion-of-fictions-other.html

011 01 17 2019 Nancy J Cohen’s

Cozy Mystery

Trimmed To Death

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/01/11-inside-emotion-of-fiction-nancy.html

012 01 20 2019 Charles Salzberg’s

Crime Novel

Second Story Man

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/01/12-inside-emotion-of-fiction-charles.html

013 01 23 2019 Alexis Fancher’s

Flash Fiction

His Full Attention

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/01/13-inside-emotion-of-fiction-alexis.html

014 01 27 2019 Brian L Tucker’s

Young Adult/Historical

POKEWEED:  AN ILLUSTRATED NOVELLA

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/01/14-inside-emotion-of-fiction-brian-l.html

015 01 31 2019 Robin Tidwell’s

Dystopian

Reduced

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/01/15-inside-emotion-of-ficton-reduced-by.html

016 02 07 2019 J.D. Trafford’s

Legal Fiction/Mystery

Little Boy Lost

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/02/16-inside-emotion-of-fiction-little-boy.html

017 02 08 2019 Paula Shene’s

Young Adult ScieFi/Fantasy/Romance/Adventure

My Quest Begins 

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/02/017-inside-emotion-of-fiction-my-quest.html

018 02 13 2019 Talia Carner’s

Mainstream Fiction/ Suspense/ Historical

Hotel Moscow

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/02/18-inside-emotion-of-fiction-talia.html

019 02 15 2019 Rick Robinson’s

Multidimensional Fiction

Alligator Alley

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/02/19-inside-emotion-of-fiction-rick.html

020 02 21 2019 LaVerne Thompson’s

Urban Fantasy

The Soul Collectors

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/02/20-inside-emotion-of-fictions-soul.html

021 02 27 2019 Marlon L Fick’s

Post-Colonialist Novel

The Nowhere Man

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/02/21-inside-emotion-of-fictions-nowhere.html

022 03 02 2019 Carol Johnson’s

Mainstream Novel

Silk And Ashes

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/03/22-inside-emotion-of-fictions-silk-and.html

023 03 06 2019 Samuel Snoek-Brown’s

Short Story Collection

There Is No Other Way to Worship Them

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/03/23-inside-emotion-of-fictions-there-is.html

024 03 08 2019 Marlin Barton’s

Short Story Collection

Pasture Art

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/03/24-inside-emotion-of-fictions-pasture.html

025 03 18 2019 Laura Hunter’s

Historical Fiction

Beloved Mother

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/03/25-inside-emotion-of-fictions-beloved.html

026 03 21 2019 Maggie Rivers’s

Romance

Magical Mistletoe

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/03/26-inside-emotion-of-fictions-magical.html

027  03 25 2019 Faith Gibson’s

Paranormal Romance

Rafael

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/03/27-inside-emotion-of-fictions-rafael-by.html

028 03 27 2019 Valerie Nieman’s

Tall Tale

To The Bones

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/03/28-inside-emotion-of-fictions-to-bones.html

029 04 04 2019 Betty Bolte’s

Paranormal Romance

Veiled Visions of Love

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/04/29-inside-emotion-of-fictions-veiled.html

030 04 05 2019  Marianne Maili’s

Tragicomedy

Lucy, go see

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/04/30-inside-emotion-of-fictions-lucy-go.html

031 04 10 2019 Gregory Erich Phillips’s

Mainstream Fiction

The Exile

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/04/31-inside-emotion-of-fictions-exile-by.html

032 04 15 2019 Jason Ament’s

Speculative Fiction

Rabid Dogs

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/04/32-inside-emotion-of-fictions-rabid.html

033 04 24 2019 Stephen P. Keirnan’s

Historical Novel

The Baker’s Secret

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/04/33-inside-emotion-of-fictions-bakers.html

034 05 01 2019 George Kramer’s

Fantasy

Arcadis: Prophecy Book

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/05/34-inside-emotion-of-fictions-arcadis.html

035 05 05 2019 Erika Sams’s

Adventure/Fantasy/Romance

Rose of Dance

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/05/35-inside-emotion-of-fictions-rose-of.html

036 05 07 2019 Mark Wisniewski’s

Literary Fiction

Watch Me Go

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/05/36-inside-emotion-of-fictions-watch-me.html

037 05 08 2019 Marci Baun’s

Science Fiction/Horror

The Whispering House

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/05/37-inside-emotion-of-fictions.html

038 05 10 2019 Suzanne M. Wolfe’s

Historical Fiction

Murder By Any Name

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/05/38-inside-emotion-of-fictions-murder-by.html