On this week’s Corks & Conversation with Daisy Bateman episode we share lots of laughs while talking about her foodie cozies! Have a listen …
Daisy Bateman is the author of the Lefty-nominated Marketplace Mysteries series, in which artisan marketplace owner Claudia Simcoe solves mysteries and eats things in an idyllic small town on the Northern California coast. Since we are all about food and mystery, we loved this fun conversation! Daisy is funny and this comes through in her writing. Here’s what she said about writing and critiquing humor:
“You do have to look at your jokes critically and be like ‘am I just indulging myself here, is anybody else going to even understand why I think this is funny, and have I stretched a little bit too far to try to make this joke work and now the whole paragraph doesn’t make sense’. You have to be a little bit brutal even with your humor.”
And on the fun part of writing a novel:
“The joy of writing these books is coming up with these characters and trying to find ways to give them quirks that you might not necessarily expect … Each person comes in and I try to think about them as if they were the center of the story, and how to make a person who would be interesting enough to read about on their own”
Our chat veered into travel and foodie cities that had Cathi drooling! As Daisy says:
“For me, one of my definitions of a great food city is somewhere where anywhere you go, at any kind of level, you get great food.”
This episode we switched up the wine with hard cider! Refreshing and delicious, Ace ciders went great with A Dismal Harvest. We suggest you get a copy (indie bookshop.org or Amazon.com) and enjoy with your favorite cider flavor like we did!
Highlights
2:50 Cider Pubs are a thing
4:19 Book Birthday on the Ides of March
6:40 Artisan Marketplace is a great setting for a mystery
9:13 Character creating is fun
12:00 Humor in writing, natural or work?
15:00 Best Foodie Destinations
18:45 Biotech to Author path
20:49 Deadline writing
24:36 Ghost Book
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