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Mostrecent ian rankin novel4/1/2023 How do you decide what he is listening to at any given time?Ī: I love Jackie Leven’s music and wish he were better known. Q: The title of the book is from a Jackie Leven song. My early books were set in a more fictitious version of the city, but fans really like that I use the real city as much as I do. No way my cops or crime scene crew could get a vehicle near the locus. When I went there to look at the street it had been completely dug up so new tram lines could be laid. In the first draft I had a bad thing happen on Constitution Street. Is it a map for fans who may come to town or a chance for you to complain about traffic?Ī: My books are about Edinburgh as much as they are about a plot or a character. Q: You always give readers such good directions around your city. But mostly I store the trajectory of the book inside my head. These lie around on my desk and sometimes get pinned to the wall above my computer. As the book progresses I amass Post-it notes and scraps of paper - plot points I need to remember for later, character names and such like. I picture you with something similar when plotting/writing a novel? Am I wrong?Ī: I start a book with only a few pages of notes. Q: Detectives have “murder walls” to help lay out the story. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. There are mutterings of trying to arrange some rehearsals but I’m not holding my breath. But we played our last gig in December 2019 and COVID banged a nail in our coffin. We even made a record - a seven-inch single. A bunch of men, mostly in their 50s, a mix of journalists, lecturers, one pro (Bobby from The Bluebells). What about music these days?Ī: I was actually in another band more recently. ![]() Q: You were famously in Fife’s second-best punk band (there were only two punk bands) The Dancing Pigs in 1978. ![]() 11 for a sold-out Vancouver Writers Festival event, took some time to answer a few Postmedia News questions:Ī Heart Full of Headstones, by Ian Rankin. The next issue of Sunrise presented by Vancouver Sun will soon be in your inbox. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder.
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