How did you decide where your book was going to take place?
Luxor and London were pretty much de rigeur for a story about Sherlock Holmes and the pharaoh’s curse. Monte Carlo was just for fun, and the Reichenbach Falls seemed like a good place to kill off Holmes.
Wait! Did I say that?
Did I do that?
A little bit about Holmes, a little bit about Tut, a little bit about me. Catch the whole piece at Fresh Fiction.
Where I blame it all on Doyle:
"There wasn’t supposed to be a third book. I mean, a second Sherlock Holmes book made sense, because I had already written it, lo these many years ago, as a screenplay. So my second book actually inspired my first one. that was alright. That was cool."
Read it all at Crimespree Mag.
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"Maybe self was a free variable with no bounded value. --Michael Chabon, Moonglow.
And there's my problem with creating characters. A character has to be consistent; people do not. The creating of character is always a reductionist act. We can strive to create three-dimensional characters. We cannot create n-dimensional characters.