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and how that fiction writer wrote that specific excerpt. All INSIDE
THE EMOTION OF FICTION links are at the end of this piece.
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); 1st 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)
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.
Facebook Author page: Suzanne M. Wolfe
Twitter: Suzanne M. Wolfe
INSIDE THE EMOTION OF
FICTION links
001 11 15 2018 Nathaniel
Kaine’s
Thriller Novel
John
Hunter – The Veteran
002 11 18 2018 Ed
Protzzel’s
Futuristic/Mystery/Thriller
The
Antiquities Dealer
003 11 23 2018 Janice
Seagraves’s
Science
Fiction Romance
Exodus
Arcon
004 11 29 2018
Christian Fennell’s
Literary
Fiction Novel
The Fiddler
in the Night
005 12 02 2018 Jessica
Mathews’s
Adult
Paranormal Romance
Death
Adjacent
006 12 04 2018 Robin Jansen’s
Literary
Fiction Novel
Ruby the
Indomitable
007 12 12 2018 Adair Valerez’s
Literary
Fiction Novel
Scrim
008 12 17 218
Kit Frazier’s
Mystery Novel
Dead Copy
009 12 21 2019 Robert Craven’s
Noir/Spy Novel
The Road
of a Thousand Tigers
010 01 13 2019 Kristine Goodfellow’s
Contemporary
Romantic Fiction
The Other
Twin
011 01 17 2019 Nancy J Cohen’s
Cozy Mystery
Trimmed To
Death
012 01 20 2019 Charles Salzberg’s
Crime Novel
Second
Story Man
013 01 23 2019 Alexis Fancher’s
Flash Fiction
His Full
Attention
014 01 27 2019 Brian L Tucker’s
Young Adult/Historical
POKEWEED: AN ILLUSTRATED NOVELLA
015 01 31 2019 Robin Tidwell’s
Dystopian
Reduced
016 02 07 2019 J.D. Trafford’s
Legal
Fiction/Mystery
Little Boy
Lost
017 02 08 2019 Paula Shene’s
Young Adult
ScieFi/Fantasy/Romance/Adventure
My Quest
Begins
018 02 13 2019 Talia Carner’s
Mainstream
Fiction/ Suspense/ Historical
Hotel
Moscow
019 02 15 2019 Rick Robinson’s
Multidimensional
Fiction
Alligator
Alley
020 02 21 2019 LaVerne Thompson’s
Urban Fantasy
The Soul
Collectors
021 02 27 2019 Marlon L Fick’s
Post-Colonialist
Novel
The
Nowhere Man
022 03 02 2019 Carol Johnson’s
Mainstream
Novel
Silk And
Ashes
023 03 06 2019 Samuel Snoek-Brown’s
Short Story
Collection
There Is
No Other Way to Worship Them
024 03 08 2019 Marlin Barton’s
Short Story
Collection
Pasture
Art
025 03 18 2019 Laura Hunter’s
Historical
Fiction
Beloved
Mother
026 03 21 2019 Maggie Rivers’s
Romance
Magical
Mistletoe
027 03 25 2019 Faith
Gibson’s
Paranormal
Romance
Rafael
028 03 27 2019 Valerie Nieman’s
Tall Tale
To The
Bones
029 04 04 2019 Betty Bolte’s
Paranormal
Romance
Veiled
Visions of Love
030 04 05 2019 Marianne
Maili’s
Tragicomedy
Lucy, go
see
031 04 10 2019 Gregory Erich Phillips’s
Mainstream
Fiction
The Exile
032 04 15 2019 Jason Ament’s
Speculative
Fiction
Rabid Dogs
033 04 24 2019 Stephen P. Keirnan’s
Historical
Novel
The
Baker’s Secret
034 05 01 2019 George Kramer’s
Fantasy
Arcadis:
Prophecy Book
035 05 05 2019 Erika Sams’s
Adventure/Fantasy/Romance
Rose of Dance
036 05 07 2019 Mark Wisniewski’s
Literary
Fiction
Watch Me
Go
037 05 08 2019 Marci Baun’s
Science
Fiction/Horror
The
Whispering House
038 05 10 2019 Suzanne M. Wolfe’s
Historical
Fiction
Murder By
Any Name