Victoria
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Jasper Fforde:
I love all your series, they're on my shelf, all pretty like, & I have a paper copy of Eyre Affair to lend out (I don't trust people with my hardbacks). I'd love it if there was a Fforde Fiesta here in Texas soon. I digress, my question: Which of your characters are most strongly based on people in your life?
Jasper Fforde
Oooooh, tricky one. I'm not sure that any are, really - characters are always amalgams of people that I know, characters I have read about - a real pot-pourri. Often, when I write a character who is similar to a real life person - like a friend or a member of my family, I think they might recognise part of themselves - but they never do. We don't see ourselves as others see us. I use this idea in 'Something Rotten' when Hamlet comes to the real world to try and figure out why he has been misinterpreted. To Hamlet, he is a poet, given to worthy thoughtful digression. To us, he talks a lot and can't make up his mind.
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Jasper Fforde:
In Shades of Grey, is Loganberry Jam a jokey metaphor for the logjam block you talk about when writing? Or have I just read far too much into it?
Kat
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Jasper Fforde:
I hate to be that person but not as much as I hate not knowing though continually hoping it will be *this year* each year, and so my question is: when will the next Shades of Grey book be released? I have read Jennifer Strange's adventures happily and was delighted with new installments of Thursday Next, but through those years I have held onto a great excitement for forthcoming stories from Eddie Russett's world.
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