Detectives Beyond Borders: A Forum for International Crime Fiction: Ian Rankin finds an outlet for his writing
As a crime writer myself (waddya mean? Didn't you see the links at left, eh??) I can recommend this chat page. Very well done, Peter. Good stuff.
Like, especially dropping the odd Rankin name. Did I ever mention I was chatting to Ian Rankin at the Crime Fiction Convention in Doncaster in 1997? Well, I heard him talking. Well, I saw him pass by. But I heard people talking about him. Hey, that's nearly good enough, isn't it? 'Friend to the stars' and all that?
Strange thing is, when you read stuff about people who write crime fiction, the writers are always trying to explain what's going on. But isn't the point about the genre that it's Mystery fiction (as they call it in America) ? Shouldn't we just leave a bit of it alone? Why does everything have to have a reason?
Why, that's only true in fiction!
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I thank you for the gracious words. These days, Ian Rankin seems to be doing a lot of explaining. That may not be entirely his fault; I think it's because everybody seems to want to hear from him.
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