Clan Destine Press Blog — Narrelle M Harris

Narrelle M Harris is not only the editor of this anthology, her love of all things corvid of course means she's written a story as well. Here Narrelle talks about her tale for Clamour and Mischief called "Seven for a Secret." What is the most unexpected tidbit you learned while researching your story?  Actually, my whole story is based on things I learned prior to writing it, the most surprising of which was that Australian magpies are not members of the corvid family. Europeans came and saw black and white birds that looked like magpies, so the name stuck.  However,...

By Narrelle M Harris I fell for corvids the way Hazel Grace Lancaster falls for Augustus Waters in John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars: “I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” Or perhaps it’s more appropriate to go with that line’s more ominous inspiration, when, in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, a character explains how you go bankrupt: “Gradually, then suddenly.” When it comes to corvids – crows, ravens, jackdaws, magpies and jays – the bright and dark go together. Harbingers of doom and guardians of the realm, both. Playful...

This series of blog entries ends where The Only One in the World began, with the anthology's editor Narrelle M Harris. Here are her thoughts about editing the book's baker's dozen (Baker Street dozen?). As The Only One in the World proceeds toward publication, editor Narrelle M Harris and I are asking all our authors three questions for future Clan Destine blog posts. Please share anything from a sentence to a few paragraphs for each: What is the most unexpected tidbit you learned while editing these stories? Each story offered something new and unexpected, because the contributors were writing from their...

In the middle of the year that went nowhere, I asked writers from around the world to interpret what Holmes and/or Watson might be like if one or both came from a cultural background different from Conan Doyle’s London-centred Victorian/Edwardian England, in stories where they also did not have to be white upper-class men. The characters could change in any and many ways to suit the story, so that readers could explore the Great Detective and his biographer from new and different angles. The result is The Only One in the World. Who's In This Sherlockian Anthology? Fourteen splendid writers...

A sneak book peek into Clan Destine Press' Kitty & Cadaver by Narrelle M Harris. Laszlo Kantor didn’t tell the five patrolling musicians that he thought they were preposterous, because he’d learned long ago to keep these opinions to himself, especially from preposterous people.The oddest at the moment was the Swede, Kurt, who had a tablet computer in one hand, open on an app that displayed a keyboard. He played it as he sang into the quiet buildings of this area of light industry.  Water, fire, air and earth  Let no evil cross this line  Weave a web, protect this...