Harbingers of Fear

[DAEDLUS]

I am a Fan of The Luke Thanet Books and would like to know what Harbingers of Fear is about. It is a Book written before the Thanet books but by the sme Author, I have no luck when putting the Title in Google

[oddboddy]

My dad grew show Chrysanthemums when I was a kid we had garden full of them.
Your situation is one that obviously people wouldn't envy you and it must be extremely hard at times but with your writing it might help if you could turn the negative into a positive because whilst your experiences are limited they are experiences most people wont have had if that makes sense. You know and have experienced so much that most of it wont have so it would probably be a very unique book from that viewpoint as most couldnt write a plot like that with any conviction. I think your words are good but watch out if you use a spell checker as alot of PC's use the American version of spelling. Good luck with it and I want my copy signed lol

[DAEDLUS]

My Mum likes Chrysanths as I do there is a Poirot episode and I think he has is wearing one. Yes I think your right, about people being interested to read a book using my experiences, I started writing a book afew years ago and I based my sleuth on me, In my head I still have the setrtings my sleuth would find himself if not the name of the Characters but I go through the Alphabet when coming up with names so thjat isn't too much of a problem, I had a Baby naming book that a Care Assistant borrowed whedn she was pregnant and she never gave it back, I asked another one to ask her to send it to me but she said the woman lost it. I will think more about the book and keep you posted - who knows in my 2nd I might thank you for your encouragement. I would dedicate to my Mum.

[oddboddy]

Theres good thinking there already and dedicating it to your mum is a great idea. Interesting you see yourself as the sleuth not the one plotting the revenge on the awful carer character lol Hey ive solved it the sleuth did it lol
I think its a great idea to go through a baby book but theres some online you can search so dont worry if you've lost yours. You could call someone chrsyanthemum if you wanted. I know someone who named his kid after a motorbike so a flower would be a lot nicer.

[DAEDLUS]

It would never occur to me to see myself as the Criminal, bters teing the sleuth sounds much more fun, when other boys were wanting to be Kevin Keegan or Kenny Dalgliesh I wanted to be Remington Steele or Jim Rockford. Thankyou for telling me about the on-line baby aming books, In the past when thinking of names of Characters I think of places and once something I was drinking, In both cases in a word association way, My main Characters would progrss like Luke Thanet, Mel Craig and other Fictional sleuths.

[oddboddy]

Good idea to have them progress. I was only kidding you about you being the sleuth/villain lol Im glad its fired you with ideas and i'm interested to see it progress so I hope you'll keep me posted. Make sure you put a note at the beginning to say all characters are fictitious and any similarities of name are coincidental. Just to cover yourself
as you never can be too careful these days. I think its great
and hope to see it roll off the presses one day.

[DAEDLUS]

Thanks, I won't forget about putting about similarities to real people being coincidental, even though if |I hurt people who have wronged me I don't care I don't want to have to pay damages to them.

[oddboddy]

Thats about the size of it im afraid last thing you need is someone to Sue and these days they do that at the drop of a hat. Think your thoughts but cover your back then they cant say anything. Probably wouldnt recognise themselves anyway as they never see themselves as others see them.
Ive been wracking my brains to think of a book I read years ago and I remembered today Ngaio Marsh wrote one called the Nursing Home Murders im sure it was her, anyway it was nothing like a care home and didnt really involve the patients it was just the setting but if you could get hold of that it would give you an idea of how others project it and you'd know better than anyone how much of it is actually realistic, just a thought.

[DAEDLUS]

Thankyou for your idea, I have just looked up The book and you are right it was written by Ngaio Marsh, I read one of her books once but I didn't get on with them so I gave a few to a Charity shop but I remember the series with Patrick Malahide after he took over from Simon Williams who dids a Pilot but couldn't do the series, I wouldn't say I watched it avidly but I did watch it, I think if Simon Williams had kept with it I would have made more of an effort to watch it. TVs Wexford George Baker also played Rodeick Alleyn 3 times, If I remember rightly alot of her books are based around the Theatre world, perhaps I will save up and by some, I think Historical Crime fiction has something Contemporary Crime Fiction lacks afew of the short stories I am reading are Histrical, I have just finished my third, the ones I have read are by John Creasey, Francis Durbridge and John Dickson Carr.

[oddboddy]

I like Ngaio Marsh and her Roderick Alleyn but I do think she can be very over descriptive about things of no consequence. Martha Grimes is a little bit like that but not so much so. I like nice easy to read like Dorothy Simpson June Thompson I read to relax so I dont want to have to study every sentence as I do so I had enough of that at school put me off for life. I never watch the series of any of them on tv as it ruins my imagined vision of them except Morse and John Thaw being my number one I hung on every word. I have the whole series of that on dvd too.

[DAEDLUS]

I really like Dorothy Simpson's Books, I also read for pleasure, I loved the way we saw his children get older and I also liked the fact he was happily Married as well as Lineham and Doc Mallard, I really wish I could find another Thanet type Detective, I have sought of managed it with Mel Craig in the shape of Hazel Holt's Mrs Mallory and Janet Lawrence's Darina Lisle although Darina is much younger. I also used to watch Morse and colected the Video's but I am ashamed to say I haven't watched any yet, after a while I regretted starting the subscription but carried on regardless, I will probably watch them one day, I will now go and look at June Thompson on the net, Thankyou.

[oddboddy]

Well I have stacks of dvds ive not yet got round to watching too so you are not on your own.I save them for a rainy day then on such a day I do something else. At the minute my free times limited as i've just started teaching family history to beginners two evenings a week and that and my theatre group take up a lot of my own time too,
Is it snowing where you are its coming down heavy here now. You should add some snow to your book places are cut off in bad weather and isolated. No-one getting in or out.
Having said that my dogs expect us to go out whatever the weather.

[DAEDLUS]

My Parents are into Gaenealogy my Dad has been a couple of times to Dorset to the Library there to research his Family and when my Mother has a spare moment she goes on the Computur to do research, but my Brother came home to live as the Man who he shared with in York moved to Cumbria to live with his Girlfriend and my Brother couldn't afford the rent on his own and the house was too bad for anyone else to want to rent with him so he moved back with us and so My mum lost the room she used for the Computor. Yes it is snowing here, my sister got an email telling her it was too dangerous for her to go to work so she had the day off., I looked up June Thompson's books they look good, does it matter if you don't read them in order or do some books mention earlier books? I looked on ebay and the 6th book featuring the Inspector was for sale. What breed of Dogs do you have?

[oddboddy]

Ive been doing genealogy 40 years its my big passion in life I love it so teaching it is a labour of love.
I have just gained a spare room as my son has just moved out to live with his partner having said that he hasnt taken his stuff yet he's Europes biggest collector of Sylvanian families and they have taken over the house every room is stacked with them.
I have 2 pugs both rescued from being badly treated, Malone was owned by a man who wanted him to fight and when he wouldn't he tried to kick him to death, he's fine now he's lovely but he walks funny due to his bones not setting properly. The other one Nacious (pugnacious!) is 4 and been bred from so much her stomach just hangs, She's a right tearaway. We love them to bits.
June Thompson. They are all seperate stories in themselves. I havent read them in order as I just buy them when I can. She's like dorothy Simpson in style. Can you not get someone to get you one from the library then you could have a look without spending anything, thats what I do. I think Rosemary for Remembrance was the first I ever read. I'm not sure what her first book was but i'm sure you'd find her online easy enough she's well known.
You mentioned facebook ages ago theres photos on there of my theatre group and my dogs if you want to add me, easiest way to find me is join Oddbods theatre group on facebook then im the administrator of that under Sue Batch

[DAEDLUS]

I love the namesd of your Dogs, especially Malone although I love the jokey aspect of the othger Dogs name, about 3 years ago I got hooked on a text service (The kind where women don't pay for the texts and the men pay through the nose, Anyway I started texting this Midwife from Oxford and shortly afterwards she asked if I wanted to swap numbers with her and since we have been texting she has started looking having Kennels for the RSPCA I don't really understand the system but the RSPCA pay expenses like Food and lighting and she helps find the dogs new homes, she always asks me what I have had for dinner and I ask how many babies she has delived as well as what she has had for dinner. I read quite slowly so I wouldn't feel happy about getting a book from the Library, The First Inspector Finch book is called Not One Of Us so I might buy it online, I will look for you on Facebook

[oddboddy]

Inspector Finch is a good character as hes one that is easy to read and follow through.
Thats a bit sexist women getting it free and men paying. Very unfair that is, sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander,
We've got a guinea pig too called Bussel after Darcy Bussel the famous ballerina and because he bustles about everywhere.
I see what you mean about library books but I get school books I need out from the library and you can renew them online 3 times then you can still renew them but you they have to see them to prove you havent lost them.

[DAEDLUS]

Inspector Finch sounds like a great Character, His name reminds me of a Man at the Residential Home I lived at, I was sitting in the Dining Room with the Mel Craig book I was reading and he was staring at the book and suddenly piped up with something that suggested he had told me who the Murderer was but I would never have thought he would read the books, I passed it to the owner and she said she would look to see if he was right, Anyway I finished the book and he was sort of, My amazement overtook my slight dissapointment, I wan't angry just very surprized. Yes it was a sexist service but it put me in touch with the Midwife and it could possibly give me material for writing and I don't text now, It is amazing what a MASSIVE bill will do to stop you from being stupid ha ha, Years ago we had Guinea Pigs I don't remember their names though, Bussle is a good name. Thanks for information about the Library, I had heard that but had thought no more about it.

[oddboddy]

Well my nieces daughter ran up huge bills on something very similar, guess she was on one that wasnt so sexist lol
I know her dad hit the roof. Its easy to get drawn in though but I guess thats what they bank on.
I like Finch as a character but I like Reg Wexford too his are the only Ruth Rendell I read her others are a little bit too weird for me.
I like Guinea pigs they are sociable little creatures.
Give Finch a try and let me know what you think.
I hate it when someone tells me the end someone did that to me with Harry Potter and if he hadnt lived in Australia i'd have gone round and given him a right ear bashing as I was gutted. I'd nearly got to the last chapter too.

[DAEDLUS]

I tried reading one of Ruth Rendell's Reg Wexford books but lost patience with it but I liked the programmes but I didn't much like the programmes based on her non Wexfords, I know what you mean about them, I have never wanted to read the Harry Potter Books, my Family have though and enjoyed them. Perhaps your Neice just joined a Social Networking site, what made it worse for me is that with you have to text different things to leave, either "stop" or stop or "STOP ALL" or STOP ALL so some times I thought I had left until I received texts from girls asking for friends.

[oddboddy]

Well if they are raking in money they arent going to make it easy to leave unfortunately. Im not sure what my niece joined some chat line I think I know the bill went into hundreds.
Deep snow here have you got much where you are?
I liked Wexford there was a couple I thought a bit weird but most of his I enjoyed. I think thats one lot best read in order though.
Hows this murder you are plotting coming along ?

[DAEDLUS]

The bill that made me sit up and stop was over �1000!!!, Whave had alot of snow this week, One day this week our Postman could only do half a round and yesterday My Carer started the day even more moody than he is usually because he was afraid he wouldn't beb able to go home but My Sister offered to show him how to get to the Train station so he cheered up after that, If he is in a bad mood we all have to know about it. My Mum went outside to get some snow for me to hold I poked it and made a snow ball. I have told her about you that I told youy that she bhas always tried to give me experiences I would not otherwise have. She reminded me of when I was at School in Malmesbury and a Girl came home for the Weekend by Brother thought it would be a great Idea to give me a Tea Spoon of Mustard at Dinner Time, I was sick and my Mother was embarraced and apologetic, While My Mum was clearing up the sick The Girl was saying "Don't worry, Don't worry". I haven'ty done anything about the book yet but I also told my Mum that I had said to you about this programme where the Presenter suggested writing down words and start from there when writing a story and I said I would start with the Word Chrysanthemumn, Bugonia and Plinth, My Mum said they were all Garden word (I didn't know that Plinth was) and so I came up with the idea of a Murder at a Gardening Club's Prize day and I can see it having 2 Female Sleuths I created years ago so I am still having ideas. Perhaps I will one day go back to Wexford (The Detective not the Irish Town) and will remember to read them in order, there is a short story with him in the book I am reading, If I haven't told you it's a book of short stories each story features a different sleuth.