by Envoy | Oct 22, 2021 | Sarah Rayne
Embarking on a new outing for music historian and researcher, Phineas Fox, it seemed to me that it was time for him to explore uncharted territory. To date he had wandered happily and generally quite productively through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries,...
by Envoy | Nov 22, 2020 | Sarah Rayne
Music is a brilliant tool for setting just about any scene and creating any mood. For starters it can be unashamedly romantic: for example Fred Astaire serenading Ginger Rogers with Jerome Kern’s, The Way You Look Tonight, in the film, Springtime. It...
by Envoy | Jul 27, 2020 | Sarah Rayne
There are always decisions to be made during the writing of a book. Usually these are straightforward and familiar – for example, should a character be killed off in Chapter Three, or can the tension be stretched out until, say, Chapter Eight? There are also the...
by Envoy | Aug 24, 2019 | Sarah Rayne
The creation of a villain can be a surprisingly fascinating exercise. There are so many roles they can be allotted. For starters, it’s usually necessary – and hopefully interesting for the reader – to show their multi-layered lives, because they aren’t always...
