My agent asked me to describe my writing-
- I said it consisted of a number of themes and genres.
- Go on he said.
- Its about crime, humour and mystery I said.
- Good he said.
- Golf, and elements of the supernatural – angels.
- OK.
- Massive themes encompassing God, fallen angels and mortality.
- Very good.
- The action is set in Wales.
- Ah.
- In the 1930s ish.
- I see.
- Other real characters that appear are Bobby Jones…
- The golfer?
- Walter Hagen…
- The golfer?
- And Amy Johnson.
- ?
- The airline pilot woman, (pause) and golfer.
- I see.
- (pause)
- Other writers have a mix of genres I said.
- They do.
- Shakespeare wrote plays, sonnets, historical dramas, comedies, tragedies, regicide.
- He did.
- With books set in Italy, England, Turkey, the Czech Republic.
- Correct.
- With themes of madness, love, feminism, murder, the supernatural.
- All true. He said. He didn’t put all of them in one book though did he?
- Maybe not.
- Are you deliberately trying to hurt me?
- ?
- How would I pitch this book? – a Welsh, crime, fantasy, sporting, mystery thriller, set in the era of hard boiled private eyes, concerning religion and humour.
- Above all humour.
- Above all humour. Can you see my problems?
- ? I said.
- Where would customers find it on the shelf of a bookshop For instance? Welsh writing? Humour? Crime? Fantasy? Sport?
- Good point. They would find it next to Malcolm Pryce. I said. Ask his agent.
- It’s hard. So hard.
- Why are you crying?
- Byron Kalies – ‘It’s About a Murder, Cariad.’ out soon (Fiction – general)
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