Julie
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Dervla McTiernan:
I think your work is terrific but I do have a question. I wondered why you chose to set The Ruin in 2013 and The Scholar a year after that, as opposed to setting them in the present?
Dervla McTiernan
Hi Julie,
That is a very good question! When I was editing The Ruin and writing The Scholar I had an idea for the storyline for the third book that had to be set no later than 2015 for it to work. So we had to set the first two books in 2013 and 2014. And then of course when it came to writing The Good Turn I went with a completely different idea where the year didn't really matter at all! So in the end there was no real reason to it, but there was a kind of logic at the time of writing.
That is a very good question! When I was editing The Ruin and writing The Scholar I had an idea for the storyline for the third book that had to be set no later than 2015 for it to work. So we had to set the first two books in 2013 and 2014. And then of course when it came to writing The Good Turn I went with a completely different idea where the year didn't really matter at all! So in the end there was no real reason to it, but there was a kind of logic at the time of writing.
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