Posts Tagged ‘Mystery set in Nova Scotia’
drear November: Project #4 – writing and finishing a mystery story
As you may know, I have finished the final draft of my Kaye Eliot Mystery, Pareidolia. It is now available on Amazon.ca — just click here.
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Pareidolia began as a search for an unusual way people from the past could communicate with people of the present. Each of the Kaye Eliot Mysteries has looked at one of these cross-time communication methods:
| How Her Garden Grew | letters |
| Something the Sundial Said | diary |
| Land Between the Furrows | postcards |
| Stained Glass | stained glass |
| Pareidolia | ? |
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Every day I stare at the tiles in my kitchen and wonder at the images I see. One tile fascinated me in particular. I could see faces, and also horses and dogs, depending on the angle I considered. This made me think that a story or puzzle could be built into the tiles of a building and the idea for Pareidolia was born.
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Have a look at the tile above. Do you see a Siamese fighting fish? a horse’s head viewed from above, a dog, a scary skull with teeth? What do you see in the circle, bottom left? …..
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When I published the book, I wanted some of these tile-images to appear in the book. So as the Eliot family searches for the story in the clues, I show some drawings of some of the images I have seen.
As I say in the Acknowledgements for the book, ‘
‘…the strange little drawings I use to illustrate this book are of the creatures and faces I have seen in those tiles. Please do not think of them as poorly rendered drawings, but as the miraculous drawings of geological processes.’
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Have a look at tiles you see and find a few images of your own. A great activity as you wait for an elevator!
All my best!
Jane (a.k.a. Alexandra)
I’m Buying a New Brunswick Book
In spite of the weather forecast, I plan to be at Dog Eared Books in Oromocto on Saturday, September 16, 2023, to chat about my books and see a few other NB authors. It’s Buy a Book by a New Brunswick Author Day!!!!
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I’ll be focusing on my Kaye Eliot Mystery Series and I’ll have some props! I’ll bring a ‘grinning tun’ from How Her Garden Grew …
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a ‘sundial’ from Something the Sundial Said …
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a piece of granite to represent a grinding stone from Land Between Furrows (no way I’ll lift a real grinding stone although we have one on our front doorstep)…
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and a bit of my own stained glass work to represent the stained glass in Stained Glass…
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I’ll also bring a cover painting or two so I can talk about creating a cover….
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Hope to see you there from 11:00 to 2:30 at Dog Eared Books (281 Restigouche Road in Oromocto). I also hope to see other local authors, including Chuck Bowie and Jordan Trethewey!
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All my best,
Jane
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