Today’s work-in-progress update concerns a few things. Let’s start with the last release.
I am pleased to say ‘A Case of Make Believe’ is doing well, but so is the whole series. That’s thanks in part to the Mayhem & Motives book promotion which you can find by following this link:
In case you’ve not heard the news yet, the fifth book in the Delamere series is available in paperback, as well as Kindle and KU.
So, that’s that, and this is this: Book Six – as yet untitled but with a working title of ‘Snapshot.’ (Which sounds far too modern a title in my opinion.) For some reason, I have decided to make the story’s client a deacon/preacher/minister at the independent Congregationalist chapel which existed in Stoke Newington at the time. Why? Because the chapel was opposite Abney Park one of London’s seven park cemeteries and a place I used to visit. Why? Because I only lived down the road in Kingsland (in Larkin Chase’s house, actually), and it was a nice place to relax. One day, after a hard motorbike journey from working out in Essex, I came back that way and, as it was summer, stopped there to take a walk and unwind. I was wearing my bike leathers and carrying my ‘lid’ as I won’t go on even a moped without leathers and a crash helmet, and strolled among the trees and old monuments, mausoleums and shrubbery until I became aware that I was being followed by a few older men.
Turns out, the park was also a big cruising ground. Well, I didn’t know until later when I made some enquiries among my buddies at the pub in Balls Pond Road, who stared at me as if I should have known this fact from birth.
So, I may well put in such an incident as I write my way through the first draft of Number Six. At the same time, I am trying to research exactly what it meant to be a Congregationalist, so I can learn the appropriate terms (minister, preacher, deacon?), and learn how such an independent organisation would have been run.
If anyone has a resource, I’d love to hear about it.
Meanwhile, I will leave you with part of a review, the first for ‘Make Believe’ and this clip comes with a huge thanks to Anthony for taking the time to write it.
Jackson Marsh takes us on a frightening journey into a world of illusion and mayhem mesmerizing us with his skilful writing. Those of us familiar with his other works will be glad to welcome back some of his characters from previous series, and a couple of new ones.
Jackson Marsh takes us on a frightening journey into a world of illusion and mayhem mesmerizing us with his skilful writing. Those of us familiar with his other works will be glad to welcome back some of his characters from previous series, and a couple of new ones.
