For The Love Of Old Bones - And Other Stories (Templar Series) - Plot & Excerpts
By then I had been writing professionally for four years, and it was a pleasant surprise to see that short story editors had an interest in me. It didn’t occur to me at the time that the amount of time involved in writing, reading, editing and preparing a short story for publication in an anthology would be nearly as much as preparing and beginning a major novel. That is one of the learning processes of being a writer. Still, I wrote THE CORONER’S TALE in between two novels, and was delighted to see it appear in 1999 in the second Ellis Peters’ memorial anthology, CHRONICLES OF CRIME. I enjoyed the experience and so, when a year or so later I was asked to write FOR THE LOVE OF OLD BONES for an American publisher, I was very happy. It first appeared in MURDER MOST MEDIEVAL in 2000. THE AMOROUS ARMOURER appeared in 2001 in a massive collection called THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF HISTORICAL WHODUNNITS, and A CLERICAL ERROR came out in 2002 in MURDER MOST CATHOLIC. In recent years I have written more medieval stories, especially the enormously popular Medieval Murderer series, but at the same time short stories have tended to lose their glitter, unfortunately.
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