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"In SLIPKNOT Greenlaw proves that she's as skillful a mystery writer as she is a fishing boat captain--and that's saying a lot. A fantastic read!" - Sebastian Junger Hello Readers and Fish Lovers! Those of you who have read my other books know that I’ve been promising a novel for the last seven years. Being a woman of my word, here it is – SLIPKNOT. The first of a series, this murder mystery was one year in the making. Of course I still fished lobster traps part time last season--which has become my way of clearing my head and keeping the writing fresh. Fishing only seems to be done in the margins of my life now, and that won’t change anytime soon, as I’ll be embarking upon a promotional tour beginning in mid June. I’ll be traipsing all around the country for two months, so please check my schedule and drop in to say “Hello” when I am in your neighborhood bookstore. The switch to fiction is an example of what I refer to as shifting gears. Shifting gears is something I’ve often done in my commercial fishing career to maximize production and keep the work less routine and mundane. When Mother Nature and/or Government regulation make it tough to eek out a living harvesting whatever specie I am fishing for, I re-rig to target something else. As with fishing, the ability to shift gears with my pencil has kept the everyday work of writing interesting and challenging. I hope the freshness I felt in writing SLIPKNOT is evident in the pages. SLIPKNOT’s protagonist, Jane Bunker, is in no way based on her creator. Unfortunately, writing in the first person makes it difficult to separate author from character, so if you hear my voice in Jane Bunker, please know that it is inevitable. On some level, everything I write is personal. I was hoping to make Jane Bunker smarter than Linda Greenlaw. But that, as it turned out, was impossible. I’m crazy about the characters in SLIPKNOT! Although everyone I know would make a great book character, I ended up using composites in most cases. When I began the writing process, I used names that were familiar to me in order to keep characters straight in my own head while I was still getting to know them. But as I wrote, rewrote, and revised the book, the characters took on lives and identities of their own, which is just as it should be. So in the end, the characters in SLIPKNOT aren’t linked in any way to the physical attributes or emotional make-ups of my friends from whom I have borrowed names. I suspect that Jane Bunker will eventually travel to other seaports and fishing communities, but for now I plan to keep her in Green Haven, Maine. The place and its residents are so rich in character, texture and aesthetics; I can’t bear to leave. |
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