“Hello and welcome to Book Week. I’m Jeremy Cornhill and today my guest is the author of the hottest new crime thriller storming its way up the best seller chart, Martha S. Twitcher. Hello, Martha and welcome to the show.”
“Thank you, Jeremy.”
“Tell us about Fashionably Dead. How did you came up with the idea of telling the story from the perspective of the all main characters sequentially?”
“Well, it came to me one evening in the pub. I’d just finished a lovely pie and chips when the idea just popped into my head. I loved the thought of telling the story from each character in turn but only writing what they would actually know about or what they could do at the time.”
“What made you set it in the world of London fashion?”
“Oh, that’s always fascinated me. The bitchiness of the whole industry and the neurotic models; it seemed too good a device not to use.”
“You took the unusual step of killing off a main character fairly early on, adding an unexpected twist to the plot. Did you agonise over that decision like J. K. Rowling is reported to have done when she killed Cedric?”
“Oh no, too tell you the truth, Soo Mei’s death was an accident; she was supposed to have a lesbian affair with Kirsty and end up running the design company in New York. I just forgot the rules I had set myself at the start and by the time I realised, the poor girl was dead. I was so engrossed in the rest of the plot, I left it in.”
“Let’s move on to some of the characters. Tell us about Nigel Waltham…”
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The TV goes black as a slender finger presses the button on the remote control. The TV watcher starts to protest but the finger stops him with a light touch to his lips. A hand gently turns his head to face the waiting lips which kiss his slowly and then with more passion. His hands move to the nicely filled jeans of the lips’ owner. Who needs fiction when real life was this good?
Alternative Ending #3: Stranger Than Fiction
“Hello and welcome to Book Week. I’m Jeremy Cornhill and today my guest is the author of the hottest new crime thriller storming its way up the best seller chart, Martha S. Twitcher. Hello, Martha and welcome to the show.”
“Thank you, Jeremy.”
“Tell us about Fashionably Dead. How did you came up with the idea of telling the story from the perspective of the all main characters sequentially?”
“Well, it came to me one evening in the pub. I’d just finished a lovely pie and chips when the idea just popped into my head. I loved the thought of telling the story from each character in turn but only writing what they would actually know about or what they could do at the time.”
“What made you set it in the world of London fashion?”
“Oh, that’s always fascinated me. The bitchiness of the whole industry and the neurotic models; it seemed too good a device not to use.”
“You took the unusual step of killing off a main character fairly early on, adding an unexpected twist to the plot. Did you agonise over that decision like J. K. Rowling is reported to have done when she killed Cedric?”
“Oh no, too tell you the truth, Soo Mei’s death was an accident; she was supposed to have a lesbian affair with Kirsty and end up running the design company in New York. I just forgot the rules I had set myself at the start and by the time I realised, the poor girl was dead. I was so engrossed in the rest of the plot, I left it in.”
“Let’s move on to some of the characters. Tell us about Nigel Waltham…”
—————————————————————————
The TV goes black as a slender finger presses the button on the remote control. The TV watcher starts to protest but the finger stops him with a light touch to his lips. A hand gently turns his head to face the waiting lips which kiss his slowly and then with more passion. His hands move to the nicely filled jeans of the lips’ owner. Who needs fiction when real life was this good?
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