I had an odd realisation the other day. As you may have realised, quite a lot of my fiction is set in the NorthWest of England (not surprising as I know it well), but the likely locations for the next three fiction books on my schedule to write are all set in Wales. Onid yw hynny’n rhyfedd? (Please don’t reply to me in Welsh, I don’t speak a word and googled “Isn’t that strange?” for the translation.)
Some of the locations I know well, the third is somewhere I’ve always wanted to go, and setting a book there will make me finally get round to it! You want to know where, don’t you? Ok, I’ll fulfil your thirst for knowledge 😉
The likely next is set mainly around a rest-stop called The Ponderosa, by the Horshoe Pass just outside Llangollen, and is five intertwined stories of bikers, skater bois, rock chicks, each connected with a version of the Deep Purple song Hush. Intrigued? Me too, can’t wait to write it and see what happens.
The second (which could well end up as two books, or even three) is a bit of a change of pace, a genre book set after an unexplained apocalypse and is an epic, set around Betws Y Coed, Snowdonia and Llandudno. Two adults, six children, and maybe nobody else.
The third is more in the tone of the cosy romance or modern fairy tale, and is set in New Quay, mid-Wales, where Jennifer (one of my characters who I’ll admit to having been in love with since the idea first came to me) meets and falls in love with a performance ‘folk myth’ poet, who may or may not be what he seems. I have to write epic poetry for that one, so will be a huge and exciting challenge.
Anyhoo, it was just the fact all three have ended up with key Welsh locations that I thought was worth mentioning. I’ll keep you updated of progress in the blog.
Stay safe,
Kit