tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82573670542095117082024-03-05T15:54:29.597-05:00My Ripper Hunting Days, the novel<center>My writing experience, my 'Jack The Ripper' novel, my opinion about authors and theories.<br><br>
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ripper-Hunting-Days-Bernard-Boley/dp/2981628607">My novel on Amazon!</a></center>Bernard Beauléhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05708145991434174823noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8257367054209511708.post-16887587006892705662019-10-17T02:17:00.001-04:002019-10-17T10:20:46.348-04:00I'm currently working on a second novel as well as on a series of short stories influenced by Mayan tales and culture. Three are completed, one of which was written last spring and was made available to my friends. Here's the link allowing you to download it.<br />
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<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/125a8h5ONXtccnu6-dNhp-Kh6RaHreqT8/view?usp=sharing">Maria Theresa The Bloody Catrina</a>Bernard Beauléhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05708145991434174823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8257367054209511708.post-25919368844901449112018-04-07T17:55:00.004-04:002021-04-25T14:32:13.481-04:00<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>MY BALTIMORE CONFERENCE PRESENTATION</b></span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br />Today was Day 1 of the Baltimore 2018 Ripper conference. Very interesting topics.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The topic I covered was </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">"Tumblety: Historical and Criminal Evidence Issues". Here's the pdf version of the paper I wrote behind my presentation. </span><br />
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<a href="This presentation I did in 2018 at Baltimore can answer many of your questions regarding Tumblety:" target="_blank">Tumblety 2018 Baltimore Presentation</a><br />
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Bernard Beauléhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05708145991434174823noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8257367054209511708.post-24987182398078049292017-12-04T21:25:00.002-05:002017-12-04T21:27:42.122-05:00My presence at the 2018 JTR Baltimore Conference<br />
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<span data-offset-key="a82ri-0-0"><span data-text="true"> Spending years working on my novel, My Ripper Hunting Days, seems to pay off in different ways. The research I had to do on one of my main characters, Francis Tumblety, made me go through all the JTR books I could get a hand on, archives as well as well known JTR forums. So I think I know the guy pretty well. He's considered as one of the main suspects. I however noticed that many arguments used in his case supporting him as a suspect needed to be examined more rigorously something I which I did during these years. The reason for me was to see how far I could carry him in my storyline.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="7cqam-0-0"><span data-text="true">I'm not dismissing Tumblety at all but will be pointing out historian and criminoligist POV problems concerning him which btw concern probably even more other suspects.</span></span></div>
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Bernard Beauléhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05708145991434174823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8257367054209511708.post-49009274029445710072017-12-02T12:38:00.001-05:002021-04-25T14:35:03.246-04:00A Christmas story of mine<br />
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif">A member
of one of the Facebook groups of authors I belong to suggested that we write
short Christmas tales to offer them to all those we know. A rather
awesome idea knowing that this group is composed of authors coming
from several countries worldwide who wrote books concerning famous
murderssuch as Jack the Ripper either fiction novels (like mine) or
non-fiction books like research or 'theories'.</span></div>
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agreed to write one. Well, since horror movies are not especially my
genre although my novel contains graphic parts of JTR coroners
inquiries, I opted for a rather traditional style combining elements
of conflicts, humor and, of course, Christmas magic.</span></div>
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only 19 pages. The title is 'Til it Happens in Your Heart '. You'll also find here an
interview I had with the owner of the site, Susan Ballinger: <a href="https://www.blogger.com/(http:%20//%20bookworm1977.simplesite.com%20/%20437101993" target="_blank">(</a><a href="http://bookworm1977.simplesite.com/437101993" target="_blank">Interview With Author Bernard Boley</a>). It's somewhere in the middle of the page. On that same web site, she made a special Christmas calendar with lovely videos showing some books written by authors which will probably include mine: (<a href="http://bookworm1977.simplesite.com/437282084" target="_blank">Christmas Calender</a>). Once you get there, you might as well have a look at my Xmas interview on this page: (<a href="http://bookworm1977.simplesite.com/435781225" target="_blank">Christmas Q</a></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><a href="http://bookworm1977.simplesite.com/435781225" target="_blank"> & A</a>).</span><br />
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at the Quebec National Archive Library and has an ISBN number, thus
no risk of intellectual property theft.</span><br />
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and Merry Ho Ho Ho!</span> </span><br />
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<br />Bernard Beauléhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05708145991434174823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8257367054209511708.post-79240615579832724752017-05-16T00:28:00.001-04:002017-12-10T00:32:44.133-05:00Interview with Woodrow Riley, my main character<div lang="en-GB">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I was having my daily
Bloody Ceasar sitting in my patio in the beautiful city of Merida where I live when something rather unusual happened to me. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The main character of
my novel, Woodrow Riley, suddenly appeared only to tell me he had
accepted an interview with one of those famous writer's blog the name
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“<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Good evening
Woodrow Riley. It's a pleasure meeting you. It seems that you carry
quite a load in </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Bernard Boley's </span>novel, 'My Ripper Hunting Days'. You probably
wonder what your creator had in mind when he decided
to call upon you as his main character in his novel. Do you want to
tell us something about this? ”</span></div>
<div lang="en-GB">
“<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">It's a great
pleasure for me also to have this conversation with you, mister
Thompson. May I call you Gregory? ”</span></div>
<div lang="en-GB">
“<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Of course, you may.
”</span></div>
<div lang="en-GB">
“<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Let me begin by
making things clear. It's my diary and not Bernard's we are talking
about and he graciously offered me to be my editor, agent, ghost
writer and publisher. ”</span></div>
<div lang="en-GB">
“<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">So you actually
existed? ”</span></div>
<div lang="en-GB">
“<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Have you ever heard
of Luigi Pirandello's play, Six Characters In Search of an Author? ”</span></div>
<div lang="en-GB">
“<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Who hasn't? ”</span></div>
<div lang="en-GB">
“<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Well, Bernard
turned out to be my Pirandello. ”</span></div>
<div lang="en-GB">
“<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Would you like to
expand a bit more? ”</span></div>
<div lang="en-GB">
“<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Bernard and I met
in one of those bars of the old part of Quebec City. As he would
always do, he wrote down some words on his damn notepad. You know,
the kind of bar where all the good looking women would find
themselves by the end of every afternoon hoping they would meet
Prince Charming, fall in love and happily live together for the rest
of their lives. I was reading while he was writing. I looked at
him and asked him, "What the bloody Hell are you doing? Didn't
you notice I was here each and every day you come here and you've
never noticed my presence?”</span></div>
<div lang="en-GB">
“<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Did he react?”</span></div>
<div lang="en-GB">
“<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Of course he did!
But not the way I expected. He kept observing the beautiful women all
around him, ordering Champagne after Champagne hoping one of them
would want a sip of his venom. God only knows what would have
happened to anyone of them should one of them had accepted. I had to
insist and remind him of the nightmare he kept having. ”</span></div>
<div lang="en-GB">
“<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">And? ”</span></div>
<div lang="en-GB">
“<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">So I told him, "I
know who you are. You're like the predator I hunted during months a
century ago. I'm the one whose's been sending you this nightmare and
you still can't figure out what it's all about?" Well after
three complete rewrites of the novel, he finally managed to
understand what I demanded of him. ”</span></div>
<div lang="en-GB">
“<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I'm I to believe
you are a ghost? ”</span></div>
<div lang="en-GB">
“<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Didn't you listen
to what I said? Pirandello, Pirandello for God's sake. ”</span></div>
<div lang="en-GB">
“<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Do forgive me,
Woodrow. So what's your story about? ”</span></div>
<div lang="en-GB">
“<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">When I was a young
boy, I ran away from home hoping it would put an end to the miseries
I battled through because of my drunk and violent father just to find
out fifteen years later it only served to set up a countdown where I
found myself pursuing the man I was convinced to be Jack the Ripper
and whose name was Francis Tumblety? ”</span></div>
<div lang="en-GB">
“<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Was he the Ripper?
Did you catch him? ”</span></div>
<div lang="en-GB">
“<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">You know what? Tim
Riordan's Prince of Quacks and Michael Hawley's The Ripper's Haunts
made a great fuss about Tumblety, but I'm the only one who knew
exactly what was going on. I personnly knew him when he was in
Whitechapel in the autumn of 1888. You know, London's East End.” </span>
</div>
<div lang="en-GB">
“<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">With all due
respect, Woodrow, I'm sorry but you didn't answer my question.”</span></div>
<div lang="en-GB">
“<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Listen my dear
Gregory, if I told you what happened, you wouldn't believe me. I
helped Tumblety in gathering female body parts, met Gorden Fitzgerald
who became my protector, fell in love with his daughter, Elizabeth,
struggled with Frederick Abberline and became a friend of Charles Le
Grand, not to mention my close relation with Derrick O'Connell, a
member of the Irish Brotherhood. I almost lost my life more times
than one would want to. The rest belongs to you, if you decide to
know what actually really went on.”</span></div>
<div lang="en-GB">
“<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">So it's not a
fiction?”</span></div>
<div lang="en-GB">
“<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">There are so many
non fiction theories about Jack the Ripper and even if no one has
managed to come up with some valid historical and criminal evidence
or interpretation of what happened, Bernard decided it would be
better to submit it as a fiction because nobody would anyway accept
what I went through.”</span></div>
<div lang="en-GB">
“<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Did Bernard get any
comments about his telling of your story?”</span></div>
<div lang="en-GB">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Ripperologist's worst
Jack the Ripper novel writer's nightmare, David Green said in his
December 2016 review and I quote,"Bernard has written a
picaresque drama about courage and personal responsibility and the
consequences of family legacy. Its theme is not only how individual
lives may be shaped by the course of history but how history itself
is shaped by the actions of individuals. Ambitiously, several of the
novel’s most important characters are kept on the periphery of the
tale, and the Jack the Ripper murders are illuminated largely by
subordinating them to the unfolding of Riley’s individual destiny.
These are risky literary manoeuvers, but the author pulls them off
magnificently. This is a thoughtful, skillfully plot" </span>
</div>
<div lang="en-GB">
“<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">So he did a good
job?”</span></div>
<div lang="en-GB">
“<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">We both did a great
job.” </span>
</div>
<div lang="en-GB">
“<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">It was a tremendous
pleasure having you with me Woodrow. Should we expect more of you? ”</span></div>
<div lang="en-GB">
“<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">You shall if ever I
decide to haunt you while you're dreaming like I did with my good
friend Bernard. Until then, read our book, 'My Ripper Hunting Days'.”
</span>
</div>
<div lang="en-GB">
<br />
<br /></div>
Bernard Beauléhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05708145991434174823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8257367054209511708.post-18081545014482849992016-12-25T01:32:00.000-05:002018-01-06T13:16:51.132-05:00My opinion on my novel<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was asked by the 'Ripperologist' bimonthly magazine's fiction reviewer, David Green, what I thought about my book not as a writer, but as a reader. He had read my book and had already writen a review to appear in December's edition of the magazine. I had no idea what he would say </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">although I had a few hints. </span>This is what I told him: </span><br />
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">It's
hard to distance oneself as a reader from a book I wrote.
Nevertheless, I'll try to tell you what I like about it. </span></i>
</div>
<i>
</i>
<br />
<i>
</i>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">We have
to go back to the first draft which was written in the third person
point-of-view. The story was totally different. Woodrow Wilson was
the Ripper and Gordon Fiztgerald became aware of it after having
observed him in a pub looking at other women in a very strange and
disturbing manner. From the moment he addresses him with these words,
“I know who you are”, a growing complicity builds up between both
of them. The problem I had with the plot, although it seemed
appealing was one could figure out the outcome. </span></i>
</div>
<i>
</i>
<br />
<i>
</i>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The
second draft is basically the story we have in the final version, but
still written in the third person. I wasn't satisfied with most of
the sub-plots, not that they weren't interesting, but they did not
allow me to focus enough on what was going through Riley's mind.
Using the first-person point of view gave me that possibility and
presenting the story as a diary made it easier. It would also allow
for the reader a more personal connection with the main character.
Those are the reasons behind the third draft which, by the same
token, gave me the opportunity to add a romantic touch by including
Elizabeth. So this is one of the things I like about the book, the
use of the first-person POV. </span></i>
</div>
<i>
</i>
<br />
<i>
</i>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The
problem, however, I had with this diary format was that I had to find
a way to deliver it. It's not like the diary of Anne Frank'or
Maybrick's diary. It couldn't just pop out of nowhere. Someone had to
have found it, hence the prologue and the epilogue. Why not going a
little further along the thin fiction/reality line and tell the
reader I was the one who found the diary. Epilogues often create a
questionable delay preventing the reader from entering quickly into
the story. They are used as an introductory setup of the story in
terms of location and period. To avoid this problem, I decided to
create a story around the story and have the reader jump into it
directly with what I consider to be a rather good opening hook:
“Prepare to drop the anchor”. </span></i>
</div>
<i>
</i>
<br />
<i>
</i>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Of
course, one aspect I gave a priority to was working on a JTR story
which would not be the story of a police officer chasing the Ripper,
nor a JTR pursuit through time. I wanted to tell a story about
someone who lived in the district and had nothing to do with the
Ripper turn into a man hunter. It's funny to see that a story that
began in the first draft with someone befriending Jack the Ripper
turned into a story about someone who ran away from his home when he
was a young boy and hid himself from his past by working with corpses
only to find himself hunting the Ripper. Globally speaking, I tend to
believe the story is more than a Jack the Ripper pursuit and offers
an interesting blend of brutal reality, drama and wit. </span></i>
</div>
<i>
</i>
<br />
<i>
</i>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Another
thing I like about the book is having tried to integrate, in the
dialogues, as much descriptive elements as possible, breaking them
down into small fragments. Too often, novels provide the author with
the chance to show how well they can write descriptions or narrative
parts. Of course, it does, but sometimes it slows down the pace at
the wrong moment. You'll find an example on pages 204-205. </span></i>
</div>
<i>
</i>
<br />
<i>
</i>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Building
characters was probably the most demanding task I went through.
However, it's also the most fascinating one. It's like writing a
short biography for each one of the main characters. I must say that
Luigi Pirandello's play, 'Six Characters In Search of an Author'
showed me how important character creation is. Once it's done, all
the writer has to do is offer them a scene within his story and
they'll do the rest. I believe I gave them strong personalities.
Considering the fact that in most stories, the hero wins (and has to
be an American!!!), something I hate, Woodrow Riley had to be an
anti-hero. In the case of those who existed, Abberline, Le Grand,
Lusk, etc., I preserved what we knew about them seeking coherence
before anything else when I used them. I like what I did with Le <span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">G</span>rand, turning him into Riley's quipping partner. I wanted to avoid
the kind of characters we find in movies such as In Hell where
Abberline is presented as someone in complete contradiction with the
pe<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">rson he really was. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span></i></div>
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span></i>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-word-border m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-49" name="ws-token">train</span></span> <span id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-word-wrapper-50" name="ws-word-wrapper"><span class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-word-border m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-50" name="ws-token">station</span></span> <span id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-word-wrapper-51" name="ws-word-wrapper"><span class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-word-border m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-51" name="ws-token">when</span></span> <span id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-word-wrapper-52" name="ws-word-wrapper"><span class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-word-border m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-52" name="ws-token">Riley</span></span> <span id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-word-wrapper-53" name="ws-word-wrapper"><span class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-word-border m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-53" name="ws-token">leaves</span></span> <span id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-word-wrapper-54" name="ws-word-wrapper"><span class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-word-border m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-54" name="ws-token">London</span></span> <span id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-word-wrapper-55" name="ws-word-wrapper"><span class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-word-border m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-55" name="ws-token">to</span></span> <span id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-word-wrapper-56" name="ws-word-wrapper"><span class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-word-border m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-56" name="ws-token">go</span></span> <span id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-word-wrapper-57" name="ws-word-wrapper"><span class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-word-border m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-57" name="ws-token">to</span></span> <span id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-word-wrapper-58" name="ws-word-wrapper"><span class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-word-border m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-58" name="ws-token">Manchester.</span></span> <span id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-word-wrapper-59" name="ws-word-wrapper"><span class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-word-border m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-59" name="ws-token">All</span></span> <span id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-word-wrapper-60" name="ws-word-wrapper"><span class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-word-border m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-60" name="ws-token">this</span></span> <span id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-word-wrapper-61" name="ws-word-wrapper"><span class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-word-border m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-61" name="ws-token">doesn't</span></span> <span id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-word-wrapper-62" name="ws-word-wrapper"><span class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-word-border m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-62" name="ws-token">make</span></span> <span id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-word-wrapper-63" name="ws-word-wrapper"><span class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-word-border m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-63" name="ws-token">a</span></span> <span class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-word-wrapper-64" name="ws-word-wrapper"><span class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-word-border m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-64" name="ws-token" title="">story,</span></span> <span id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-word-wrapper-65" name="ws-word-wrapper"><span class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-word-border m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-65" name="ws-token">but</span></span> <span id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-word-wrapper-66" name="ws-word-wrapper"><span class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-word-border m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-66" name="ws-token">I</span></span> <span id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-word-wrapper-67" name="ws-word-wrapper"><span class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-word-border m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-67" name="ws-token">enjoyed</span></span> <span id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-word-wrapper-68" name="ws-word-wrapper"><span class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-word-border m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-68" name="ws-token">discovering</span></span> <span id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-word-wrapper-69" name="ws-word-wrapper"><span class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-word-border m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-69" name="ws-token">details</span></span> <span id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-word-wrapper-70" name="ws-word-wrapper"><span class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-word-border m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-70" name="ws-token">that</span></span> <span id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-word-wrapper-71" name="ws-word-wrapper"><span class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-word-border m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-71" name="ws-token">became</span></span> <span id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-word-wrapper-72" name="ws-word-wrapper"><span class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-word-border m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-72" name="ws-token">part</span></span> <span id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-word-wrapper-73" name="ws-word-wrapper"><span class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-word-border m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-73" name="ws-token">of</span></span> <span id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-word-wrapper-74" name="ws-word-wrapper"><span class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-word-border m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-74" name="ws-token">it</span></span> <span id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-word-wrapper-75" name="ws-word-wrapper"><span class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-word-border m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-75" name="ws-token">such</span></span> <span id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-word-wrapper-76" name="ws-word-wrapper"><span class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-word-border m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-76" name="ws-token">as</span></span> <span id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-word-wrapper-77" name="ws-word-wrapper"><span class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-word-border m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-77" name="ws-token">the</span></span> <span id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-word-wrapper-78" name="ws-word-wrapper"><span class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-word-border m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-78" name="ws-token">November</span></span> 10 <span id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-word-wrapper-80" name="ws-word-wrapper"><span class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-word-border m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-80" name="ws-token">event</span></span> <span id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-word-wrapper-81" name="ws-word-wrapper"><span class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-word-border m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-81" name="ws-token">where</span></span> <span id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-word-wrapper-82" name="ws-word-wrapper"><span class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-word-border m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-82" name="ws-token">Riley</span></span> <span id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-word-wrapper-83" name="ws-word-wrapper"><span class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-word-border m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-83" name="ws-token">almost</span></span> <span id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-word-wrapper-84" name="ws-word-wrapper"><span class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-word-border m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-84" name="ws-token">gets</span></span> <span id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-word-wrapper-85" name="ws-word-wrapper"><span class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-word-border m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-85" name="ws-token">lynched</span></span> (p <span id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-word-wrapper-87" name="ws-word-wrapper"><span class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-word-border m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-87" name="ws-token">351).</span></span> <span id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-word-wrapper-88" name="ws-word-wrapper"><span class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-word-border m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-88" name="ws-token">It</span></span> <span id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-word-wrapper-89" name="ws-word-wrapper"><span class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-word-border m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-89" name="ws-token">was</span></span> <span id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-word-wrapper-90" name="ws-word-wrapper"><span class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-word-border m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-90" name="ws-token">based</span></span> <span id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-word-wrapper-91" name="ws-word-wrapper"><span class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-word-border m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-91" name="ws-token">on</span></span> <span id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-word-wrapper-92" name="ws-word-wrapper"><span class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-word-border m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-92" name="ws-token">an</span></span> <span id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-word-wrapper-93" name="ws-word-wrapper"><span class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-word-border m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-93" name="ws-token">insignificant</span></span> <span id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-word-wrapper-94" name="ws-word-wrapper"><span class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-word-border m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-94" name="ws-token">event</span></span> <span id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-word-wrapper-95" name="ws-word-wrapper"><span class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-word-border m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-95" name="ws-token">that</span></span> <span id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-word-wrapper-96" name="ws-word-wrapper"><span class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-word-border m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-96" name="ws-token">actually</span></span> <span id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-word-wrapper-97" name="ws-word-wrapper"><span 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id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-99" name="ws-token">that</span></span> <span id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-word-wrapper-100" name="ws-word-wrapper"><span class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-word-border m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-100" name="ws-token">day</span></span> <span id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-word-wrapper-101" name="ws-word-wrapper"><span class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-word-border m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-101" name="ws-token">in</span></span> <span id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-word-wrapper-102" name="ws-word-wrapper"><span class="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-word-border m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token" id="m_-5878234481859993560gmail-ws-token-102" name="ws-token">Spitalfields. It was metionned on page 5 of London's Daily News, November 10, 1888 edition.</span></span></span> </i></div>
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</i>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>As for
the things I like less, I'll mention the extended use of inquiry
descriptions of the victims, although one cannot imagine a JTR story
without blood and gut cutting. Maybe I should have edited them more.
However, the aspect worrying me the most is this feeling I still have
about the end of the story. It may seem I crashed landed the end. But
then, there was no need for fast paced loaded action. Riley was
crossing the ocean, wounded, sick almost dying and still trying to
get a hold on Tumblety. In my mind, the main character had to be an
anti-hero til the end. Even if he had caught Tumblety, he would have
learned he wasn't the Ripper something everybody had already told
him. Then what? So I made him prefer surviving, something we don't
know if he actually did.</i> </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> He didn't consider the way I handled the end the same way I did and told me how he felt about it:</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">My view is that the ending works very well indeed. Sometimes these kind
of shocking, dramatic revelations in the last paragraph can come across
as a little contrived and stage-managed - but I didn't feel this was the
case with
<i>My Ripper Hunting Days</i>. Besides, there are hints in the novel
that the astute reader will already have picked up on (i.e. on page 298
where we learn that Riley's father killed his wife in a Ripper-style
manner; and on page 384 he says "You're my..."
just before he dies). </span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">When the</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> magazine was reales<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">ed on December 24, I didn't expect such a positive review. This is <span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">what he wrote<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">:</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
</span></span></span></span>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Woodrow
Riley is a highly unusual young Irishman. He works as a laboratory
assistant at the London Hospital preparing bodies for dissection. He
seems a rather creepy figure at first, more at home among the dead
than the living, until a chance encounter with Francis Tumblety
propels his life in a new direction.</span></i></div>
<i>
</i>
<br />
<i>
</i>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Tumblety’s
elaborate scheme is to harvest the reproductive organs of deceased
prostitutes and have Riley preserve them using the facilities at the
Hospital. To that end Riley supplies Tumblety with a black bag
containing amputation knives. But then the mutilated bodies of women
start turning up in Whitechapel… Riley sets out to hunt down the
man he believes has committed murder; but he also embarks on a
journey of self-discovery, delving into his own past and uncovering
uncomfortable personal truths.</span></i></div>
<i>
</i>
<br />
<i>
</i>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The
novel is presented in diary format, which poses conundrums for the
reader: is it a reliable and comprehensive document? Does it set out
to deflect suspicion from Riley by manipulating the evidence in his
favour? Tumblety may be a credible Ripper suspect, but what exactly
is his relationship with Riley? Is the younger man being drawn
unwittingly into the role of an accomplice? Nothing is quite what it
seems and the astute reader soon learns to mistrust what the narrator
is telling us (at least part of the time). Characters dissemble and
utter untruths; they adopt disguises or assume false identities.
Innocent conversations turn out to be tip-offs or confessions.</span></i></div>
<i>
</i>
<br />
<i>
</i>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Several
subplots offer counterpoint to Riley’s hunt for the Ripper. Early
on, he falls under the influence of Gordon Fitzgerald, a wealthy
philanthropist from Dublin, who has his own agenda. And it is with
Fitzgerald’s daughter Elizabeth that Woodrow seeks to resettle
destitute East End families in Quebec. Meanwhile, Inspector Abberline
and Sergeant Thick are taking a close interest in Riley’s Ripper
hunting activities, yet both officers seem preoccupied with an
earlier ongoing investigation into Irish Nationalism and Fenianism.</span></i></div>
<i>
</i>
<br />
<i>
</i>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">My
Ripper Hunting Days can be enjoyed simply as an historical murder
mystery, but I suspect Bernard Boley’s true intentions lie
elsewhere. He has written a picaresque drama about courage and
personal responsibility and the consequences of family legacy. Its
theme is not only how individual lives may be shaped by the course of
history but how history itself is shaped by the actions of
individuals. Ambitiously, several of the novel’s most important
characters are kept on the periphery of the tale, and the Jack the
Ripper murders are illuminated largely by subordinating them to the
unfolding of Riley’s individual destiny. These are risky literary
manoeuvers, but the author pulls them off magnificently.</span></i></div>
<i>
</i>
<br />
<i>
</i>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">This is
a thoughtful, skillfully plotted and fascinating work that shines
with intelligence.</span></i></div>
<i>
</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>I</i></span> </div>
Bernard Beauléhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05708145991434174823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8257367054209511708.post-59192883629745613262016-11-15T12:58:00.000-05:002018-01-05T12:23:09.499-05:00I'm now on Goodreads author section<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The thing I like about this profile page of mine is that they offer a series of questions for the author to respond. I would like to share them with you:</span></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>How do you deal with writer’s
block?</b></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Experiencing the writer's
block is normal. It happened to me quite a few times. I don't fight
it. I simply pause for a while, do some research on the main topic of
whatever I'm working on, on scenes, characters. I tend to go back to
the beginning, looking for better words and sentences, questioning
the relevance of parts.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In other words, I stay inside this
gigantic bubble every writing project has blown around me and move in
a different direction. It became a sort of Zen thing for me and
doesn't cause me any stress.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>What’s the best thing about being
a writer?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You have this immense
feeling of power in creating an imaginary world built upon what you
see, think, smell, touch, hear everyday and putting it inside various
characters who suddenly come alive asking you, almost begging you to
do something with them. If you ever had the chance to see Luigi
Pirandello's play, 'Six Characters In Search of an Author', you would
understand what I'm trying to say.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It's also amazingly humbling to
experience how much writing brings you beyond what you may have
thought you were and could become.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>What’s your advice for aspiring
writers?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Putting aside the genre I
prefer, historical novels, the two most important questions one must
keep asking himself as he's writing are:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1. What's the point I'm trying to make
in this portion of dialogue or narrative?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2. Is it bringing the story forward?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>What are you currently working on?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I got three other book
projects on the back burner and once the promotion/marketing on my
first novel will be completed. I'll move on to the next one.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>How do you get inspired to write?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I've been writing almost
all my life, always carrying a pencil and notepad. I would write down
what I felt as well as what I believed others were feeling based on
their body language. Odors, colors were part of the elements I would
write. I would also take pictures of scenes and gave myself
these sort of 'Now describe it to me' homeworks.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Where did you get the idea for your
most recent book?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The core of the story
came from a dream I kept having for weeks. I told myself that writing
it down would help, and it did. However, I never expected it would
turn into a book project even less a Jack the Ripper historical
fiction.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I went through three complete rewrites
including a change of POV with some seven or eight variations in the
last one before I was completely satisfied.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here's the link: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16052102.Bernard_Boley</span></span></div>
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</span></span>Bernard Beauléhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05708145991434174823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8257367054209511708.post-20086391051452661812016-11-06T15:57:00.004-05:002016-11-14T23:19:04.749-05:00This is the content of the press release I began sending about my book:<h2 style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">PRESS RELEASE</span></span></b></span></h2>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</b><br />Bernard Boley announces his first novel, 'My Ripper Hunting Days'<br /><i>A powerful and mind-blowing historical drama fiction about Jack The Ripper</i><br /><br />Merida, Yucatan, October 6, 2016: After many years spent writing his novel in the United States, Canada and Mexico, Bernard Boley's first novel is now available on Amazon under the title 'My Ripper Hunting Days'. It's offered in e-book and 5X8 paperback versions.<br /><br />The story not only involves an actual prime Ripper suspect, the American named Francis Tumblety, but also other well known persons back then such as Scotland Yard's Inspector Frederick Abberline, Whitechapel H-Division, Sergeant William Thick, Vigilante Committee's president, George Lusk, and a crook named Le Grand. All reveal themselves exactly as historical data has presented them, but it's as if the author knew them personally.<br /><br />The story revolves around a diary found in Canada where its author, Woodrow Reily, writes down his pursuit of the Ripper. If you have enjoyed Agatha Christie's 'Murder on the Orient Express', where Hercule Poirot resolves the crime in the last minutes, prepare yourself for an even more thrilling and mind-blowing ending by reading 'My Ripper Hunting Days'. </span>Bernard Beauléhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05708145991434174823noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8257367054209511708.post-59494654347918888602016-10-05T23:10:00.001-04:002016-10-10T13:02:28.626-04:00Writing my novel<div style="line-height: 150%;">
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<i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Why the
Ripper? </span></b></i>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">One of
the first questions one might ask me is why I decided to write a Jack
the Ripper novel. It all began as a dream I kept having for weeks.
No! I wasn't dreaming about Jack the Ripper even less a JTR novel. In
this repeating nocturnal fantasy I had, there was a man sitting in a
bar. He was observing women around him, observing each one carefully,
avoiding eye contact and writing down notes. A voice from somewhere
else in the bar, probably coming from another table, was addressing
him with these words: “I know what you're doing: stalking.<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">”
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I
couldn't get rid of this dream up until I told myself I should write
down something about it. A novel was the avenue I decided upon. A
story involving stalking? Not that exciting. How about a
stalking-serial killer? Great. Now all I had to do is selecting among
the hundreds of serial killers the one who would carry my nightmare.
You can easily imagine the task of going through the major serial
killer books. I won't even share with you what it could have demanded
of me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Eventually,
I fell upon Jack the Ripper and was sort of discouraged by the number
of fiction opportunities he had offered writers for decades. I,
nevertheless, decided to work with the Ripper case, mainly because it
happened during the late Victorian era, a period I just can't get
enough of. The British accent, the wit of the Englishmen, the
architecture, the class conflicts, the lifestyles are only a few
elements I enjoy. As for the Ripper, I think the only storyline not
covered has been Jack verus Goldorak or the Terminator, so I had to
come up with something new. That's when Jack London's The People of
the Abyss fell on me like Newton's apple. It influenced me probably
more than any other late-Victorian-early-20th story. I wanted the
reader to live the life of the street people at the time of the
murders. What was going on in the mind of the people living in the
East End back then became the main factor for me to build this story
about an ordinary person, not a copper, trying to find the Ripper. </span>
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<i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">You went
through three rewrites? </span></b></i>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Yes. The
first writing brought me in a long narrow dead-end storyline which I
won't describe just in case I find a way through and write a
different story. It was done with a third-person point of view (POV),
the most common writing technique found. It had a rather small set of
subplots most of them leading me nowhere. So in the second writing, I
dropped the subplots and switched to the first-person point of view.
The same thing happened, a dead-end, even if I honestly felt I had a
well framed storyline. The third writing was a total rewrite, the
only element I kept was the Jack the Ripper background and the
presence of someone observing another person reading in a crowded
pub. My nightmare stalker disappeared and became the main character,
Riley, an initially introverted and reluctant Ripper hunter who
quickly turns it into an obsession. Fearing he might die, he decided
to write down his story on an almost day-by-day basis making it a
diary someone finds decades later. It's the third and last writing.
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<i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Why a
first-person POV? </span></b></i>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I
believed it offered me an easier way to keep the intrigue within a
limited range of situations, and allowed the main character to
express his true emotions and not those perceived by the other
characters the 'narrator' would int<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">ro</span>duce. Subplots within a
third-person POV novel probably allow the author a better ground for
that purpose than a first-person POV. I tend to believe that it all
depends on how one wants to handle the conflicts a novel carries
between the antagonist and the protagonist. In 'My Ripper Hunting
Days' it's a more inner conflict than one opposing the main character
and other characters. The combination of a first-person POV, the
story's frame, a diary, and the provenance of the character writing
his diary, Woodrow Riley, created certain constraints in terms of
wording. In the third-person POV, most of the time, the narrator uses
a wording different from the language each and every one of his
character uses. The writer will often describe a setting or a
character in a more flamboyant pure traditional literature style than
simple everyday words. It turned into one of the biggest challenges I
had with this kind of format: using the appropriate wording. Since
it's the 'diary' of a self-made young man, I wrote the narrative
sections in the same kind of language he would have used every day in
his life. It's not necessarily the kind one would find in a
third-person POV. </span>
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<i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Did I
have an idea of what I was about to go through? </span></b></i>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Not at
all! The challenge was tremendous, historical research being one
major element. Police archives were either lost, destroyed or
inaccessible. I had to rely upon the works of the great
ripperologists who had done a fascinating research job either in
books, archives or on two major forums, Casebook and JTR forums.
Newspaper archives completed the basis of my prime source
documentation. I also bought some documentation sources on the
Internet. For example, in the novel, my main character had to go to
Manchester. From what train station and at what time would he leave?
The answer came from a vintage edition of Bradshaw's Railway Guide I
bought on the net. However, besides the actual facts surrounding Jack
the Ripper I had to learn almost by heart a whole lot of period
elements. Let me give you a funny example of a situation I went
through. My main character is invited for dinner, and I decided to
have his host serve him a Vichyssoise soup which is a cold soup made
of puréed leeks, onions, potatoes, cream, and chicken stock only to
find out its original preparation dated somewhere around 1917! So I
had to serve them something different. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Since the
story happens in the end of the 19th century in UK, I read a lot of
Ripper period novels just to get into writing correct structure and
vocabulary. The structure of the British sentence is a bit different
from the North American one. So is the extended use of adverbs versus
adjectives, allowing the typical British character to keep a certain
distance, adjectives being considered as an emotional response. The
vocabulary and the spelling of many words had to be the kind used
back then. </span>
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</b></i>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i><b>Is
building a character playing God?</b></i> </span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Almost,
although, it took me more than seven days. For me, a good character
is not only someone you set in a scene. He's a virtual human being
with a past, a lifestyle, a way he behaves, talks, dresses. From the
moment you begin to use him, the reader should be able to see him in
his mind like the same way the writer did when he created him. So
creating a character, is something that one has to seriously work on
once a broad storyline is built. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">We will
often hear authors talking about invasive characters imposing their
presence within every chapter of a storyline, directly or indirectly.
I must admit I've always been aware of this possibility since I saw
Luigi Pirandello's play 'Six Characters in Search of an Author' some
thirty years ago. It's about a director and actors rehearsing a play
and suddenly who are interrupted by six bizarre persons appearing on
the stage and searching for an author to finish the story they all
have been involved in. As the play develops, these persons explain it
to the director and actors who decide to build something around it.
They actually take control of everything that follows. Well, the same
thing happened to me. As I would sketch out a chapter or a scene
using some of my characters, I would often lose control of what I
wanted to write because each character, given his personality, had
something he could say or do, and surprisingly, I would find myself
working in that direction. </span>
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<i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">What
about rhythm and pace? </span></b></i>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Of
course, maintaining a good pace was also important to me, and I still
consider some paragraphs in my novel could be deleted. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span>
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<div style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I seem to
have detected a rather recent tendency in fiction book writing. Let's
say, dating no more than 10-15 years ago. It's strongly influenced by
action movies, either plot or character-driven plots. In a movie, a
scene lasts a few minutes where you will find a beginning, a climax
and an end delivered through the setting, the dialog or the action.
The narrative portion is becoming minimal if not totally absent.
Narrative descriptions are integrated through the eyes of the
characters or within the dialog which allows a continuous pace. If
one reads D<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">an</span> Brown's novels and watches the movies, he sees how
the screenplay preserved this kind of writing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I could talk about many other aspects of novel writing, but I'll keep for an other article. </span>
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Bernard Beauléhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05708145991434174823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8257367054209511708.post-61953839024897281002016-07-30T13:35:00.003-04:002016-11-06T01:53:05.489-04:00A powerful and mind-blowing historical drama fiction!
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">After
many years spent writing my novel in the United States, Canada and
Mexico, my first novel is now available on Amazon under
the title 'My Ripper Hunting Days'. It's offered in e-book and 5X8
paperback versions.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0.39cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The
story not only involves an actual prime Ripper suspect, the American
named Francis Tumblety, but also other well known persons back then
such as Scotland Yard's Inspector Frederick Abberline, Whitechapel
H-Division, Sergeant William Thick, Vigilante Committee's president,
George Lusk, and a crook named Le Grand. All reveal themselves
exactly as historical data has presented them, but it's as if I knew them personally. </span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The
story revolves around a diary found in Canada where its author,
Woodrow Reily, writes down his pursuit of the Ripper. If you have
enjoyed Agatha Christie's 'Murder on the Orient Express', where
Hercule Poirot resolves the crime in the last minutes, prepare
yourself for an even more thrilling and mind-blowing ending by
reading 'My Ripper Hunting Days'. </span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 140%; margin-bottom: 0.39cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">You can share your comments here or on </span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Bernard-Boley/" target="_blank">my Amazon author page</a>
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</span></span>Bernard Beauléhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05708145991434174823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8257367054209511708.post-46197407150354861702016-07-30T13:35:00.000-04:002016-10-03T18:14:26.609-04:00'My Ripper hunting days', a Jack the Ripper novel I wrote<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="ws-token-27"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="ws-word-wrapper-27"></a>I've
just finished writing my first novel which, I hope, will be published
soon. It's titled 'My Ripper Hunting days'. Of course, we're talking about
Jack the Ripper who viciously murdered five women in the eastern side
of London in 1889. The East End was where the poor and miserable
lived. Families would often live in a single room. The Ripper was a
cleaver and well organized serial killer. <br />
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I've been working on this novel for years, and it required a lot
of research to make sure references to streets, clothes, for example,
were not only relevant, but historically correct. <br />
<br />
The story goes a bit like this: When I was 14-15 years old, I
found a well-preserved diary of a young man, Woodrow Reily, who
worked at the London Hospital and was held at the Grosse-Isle
quarantine station near Quebec City having caught typhus while
crossing the Atlantic. He wrote how he met a man named Francis
Tumblety, an actual Jack the Ripper suspect, and befriended him, but soon after becomes convinced this man is
Jack the Ripper. The more evidence he gathers, the more he believes
the East End murders may only be pieces of a larger puzzle in which
Tumblety seems to be playing an important part. Will he get the whole
picture and capture Tumblety the Ripper? Was he really hunting Tumblety, the Ripper or someone from his past, a
dark past he even denies having gone through? You shall find out once
you grab a copy of Reily's soon to be published diary, 'My Ripper Hunting days'. <br />
<br />
Of course, I never found such a diary, but someone had to find it.
So why not me? Then again, maybe I did actually find his diary. Anyway, I'll let you speculate. The story not only involves Francis Tumblety but also a couple
of other well known persons such as Scotland Yard's Inspector
Frederick Abberline, Whitechapel H-Division Sergeant William Thick,
Vigilante Committee George Lusk and a well known crook named Le
Grand. All reveal themselves a bit differently than we what we knew of
them, and are often witty as Brits tend to be.<br />
<br />
The main character, Woodrow Reily had nothing to do
with the Ripper case preferring one-way conversations between him and
dead bodies of the pathological laboratory where he worked because "They
don't talk back". Nevertheless, this ordinary and somewhat
introverted guy pursues someone he believes is the Ripper and gets into
a lot of trouble.<br />
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The difference in this story, compared to other JTR novels, is that we're
not talking about police chasing the Ripper such as Allan Moore's 'In
Hell' nor is it like Sphen Hunter's 'I, Ripper' where a journalist
and the Ripper keep stalking each other. It's not a time-traveller Ripper story nor is it a Jack The Ripper against the Terminator kind of book.<br />
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I'll be back to share with you many aspects in this novel-writing
experience of mine.<br />
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