Q Your bird puns are legendary ( We’ll Always Have Parrots, Die Like an Eagle, No Nest for the Wicked, and dozens more). I take the old “write what you know” adage and add “or what you could have fun learning about.” I figure if I can have fun researching and writing about something, I can probably make it fresh and fun for the readers. had her grandmother run a Renaissance Festival in The Falcon Always Wings Twice. involved her mother in a decorator showhouse in The Nightingale Before Christmas. inspired her grandfather to hold an ornithological meeting in Owl Be Home for Christmas. invented a Halloween festival for Caerphilly in Lord of the Wings. So I took her on a cruise in Terns of Endearment. Q How do you keep the story fresh for readers?ĭonna: I think one thing that helps keep the story fresh for readers is something that keeps writing it fresh for me-I’m always looking for new things Meg can be doing or new places for her to go. And for an added bit of fun, I modeled a few aspects of Michael’s Macbeth on one I worked on-as part of the costume crew-during my own college drama department days.
Throw in a little interdepartmental academic warfare and the world’s most intrusive documentary filmmaker, and I decided I probably had the right mix of ingredients for a plot that mixed humor and homicide. And the possibility that a group of people are out in the same woods actually trying to cast evil spells. I settled on Macbeth rather than Hamlet, because I thought I could have more fun with it-along with the cast and crew either staying in Meg and Michael’s house or camping in their yard I wanted to saddle Meg with a crew of clueless reenactors, who have set up their notion of a medieval Scottish military camp in the woods behind the house. And it was not a big point-almost a throwaway line-but the more I thought of it, the more I realized that it would be fun to have him directing a Shakespearean play. What was the inspiration for the latest?ĭonna: In the final chapter of The Falcon Always Wings Twice (August 2020)-the chapter in which I wrap up all the loose ends from all the subplots in the book-I resolved one issue by having Michael, Meg’s drama professor husband, recruited to direct a production of Hamlet.
Q Murder Most Fowl is the 29th book in the long-running Meg Langslow series.
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