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Date: 2005-07-05 09:23 am (UTC)1) I was trying to keep my description of the hero concise, maybe I should include something about either his fencing/swordfighting skills or the fact that artefact has reappeared while he's been adventuring abroad (a simple field trip can easily turn into something far more involved). A lot of the research is involved with actual tracking down of contacts since the artefact has been missing for the sixteen years between when the hero first saw it, and it's reappearance around the time his ex-girlfriend died. And the first fight scene proper takes place in Chapter Three.
2/3) I'm originally from North Derbyshire, which is what I'm basing my novel's fusion of Christianity and rural tradition on.
I was privately educated in Sheffield from the age of nine, and am basing the female lead's background on pupils and teachers from that school.
I'm an Edinburgh University graduate, a Cambridge PhD-dropout, and have a range of contacts who are/were working in academia/research in Oxford, Cambridge and Edinburgh.
Why Oxford rather than Cambridge? Partly the fact that the city feels more compact, and partly because of the Pitt Rivers Museum, which is only now starting to catalogue its vast collection, and so is an ideal place for artefacts to turn up with no real provenance.
I live with the owner of a large collection of occult books; two of my contacts ran an occult bookshop before turning to writing; another contact lists 'professional exorcist' amongst his talents; I've put a lot of thought into my novel's mythology, although I admit it still needs a few tweaks. The one thing I haven't done yet is visit the Witchcraft Museum in Boscastle, mainly because last year's floods happened two days before I booked my trip there, and I haven't had much opportunity to travel since the museum reopened. I'm not sure how important that's going to be, as I've used alternative sources due to the problems caused me by the flooding of the village. If I set a subsequent novel in Cornwall, I shall be paying a visit, obviously.
Does that answer all your questions?
Gina