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Guest - Eilis Flynn
Good morning! We've got the lovely and talented Eilis Flynn visiting us today so join us on the cozy couch and settle in for a visit. We've got a chai latte today with blueberry muffins. Enjoy!
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Building a Heroine from Hints of History
By Eilis Flynn
When my friend
Heather Hiestand and I started to talk about writing a project together, we decided
to go steampunk (go steampunk! Hurray! Ahem). Now, since she knows her English
history (in fact, her upcoming historical romance, Marquess of Cake, from
Kensington, is solidly in the Victorian period) (release date July 4, 2013, so
preorder now!), and I love research that has little to do with everyday reality,
we figured that together, we could come up with something that was both fun to
write and fun to read!
This seemed
like a good time to use a plot device I had been tossing around for a few
years: vampirism as a result of science gone awry. We tossed that into our
cauldron o’ cooking up our story. Now, we decided it was going to take place in
1888, that year gouged into the memory of those who remember a little something
about British history (hint: Jack the ------).
Now, our
characters—the heroine was a challenge. In the course of her research, Heather
told me she had found someone she wanted as the heroine. I reminded her there
could be problems using real people in fiction. There wouldn’t be a difficulty,
she said, because this woman seemed to disappear from the historical record.
There was precious little about her before and after what made her famous.
Perfect, I
said. So who is it? Nellie Clifton, she said. A prostitute, Heather added,
jogging my memory, a woman who was known to have had a dalliance with the son
of Prince Albert and inadvertently caused the death of Queen Victoria’s
husband. Okay...interesting choice, but Heather persuaded me that the lack of
historical record, Nellie would leap from the page as a character built from
the ground up basically. For that reason, it’s always fun to use real personages
who seem to disappear into history. (We can call her the Victorian Spartacus.
Spartaca?)
So we decided
to use Nellie Clifton. She ended up being a wonderfully fun character to write,
using history, fantasy, and even romance, even though she does attack our hero
from time to time:
Only an instinct made him turn
back around just then, because Nellie took the opportunity to run at him with a
second sword, planning to skewer him like a piece of meat. He leaped up,
angling toward her, getting perilously close to the archer.
“Damn you,” Lucas shouted. “Stand
up and fight like a man!”
At that Nellie laughed. “But I’m
not, Mr. Dudley,” she said, her lips curving into a broad smile. “I’m better.”
You might have
heard the old saying, “History is written by the victors.” I’ve always had the
uncomfortable feeling that studying any cultural history would be one-sided. At
least with anthropology you’re studying a historical record without a written
record. With a story like Wear Black, it’s a reimagined history, with a
reimagined historical character. AND it was fun to write!
Death did not end his service to the British Empire
Beneath Windsor Castle, a shadow
network of immortals keeps the British Empire safe. Army captain Lucas
Fitzrobbins becomes one of them when the cure for his mortal wound turns out to
be a vampirism potion. He is abruptly inducted into the secret St. George
Protector Society…and it’s not long before the Society’s newest recruit
discovers it has dark mysteries as well…
Marked as a target
Hampering Lucas’s efforts to
adjust to his after-life is An Tighearn operative Nellie Clifton, a beautiful
and enigmatic assassin, who has marked Lucas as her latest quarry. But then…
Secrets are threatened to be revealed
A brutal killer stalks the seamy
underside of London. Protectors and assassins alike must leave the shadows to
find the fiend before their existence is revealed to the world. Tasked with the
job of tracking down the murderer, Lucas discovers that the crazed butcher may
have connections that go to the heart of the British Empire. One thing is
certain:
The Queen must never know!
Some buy links:
Eilis Flynn worked in
Wall Street and Wall Street-related firm for almost 35 years, so why should she
write anything any more based in reality? Published in a number of genres, she
lives in Seattle with her patient husband and the ghosts of her spoiled rotten
cats. Her first collaboration with author Heather Hiestand is the steampunk
vampire historical fantasy, Wear Black. Eilis
can be reached at eilisflynn.com, eilisflynn@aol.com, at facebook.com/EilisFlynnAuthor,
and Twitter at @eilisflynn.
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-- Lynda Again,
What an interesting post! I'm starting to develop a real love of steam punk. How about you?
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Hi Eilis! Thanks for joining us today! These are some great ideas for creating characters and plots. I did something similar with my Altered Destiny but used a historical starting point and navigated away from established history with a bunch of rather wild what ifs ;-) It's great fun to be a writer (sometimes, lol) isn't it?
Lynda
Altered history is a lot of fun, Lynda! Especially when you start losing track of how you're tweaking it! Heather would come up with items that seemed to fit so well that I would have to go find a history book just to make sure it wasn't real!
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