Jazz Age Wednesdays 20 ― Pip and Holding On Part 1

Great break from my week, of course, I have to share it.

Jazz Age Wednesdays 13 ― Pip and the River Monster

Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Hey Sheiks and Shebas, I’m pos-i-lutely happy to see you at Jazz Age Wednesdays again!

Early Lucille 3 copy Young Lucille Ball

I started this short story back when I did a collaborative post with author John W. Howell*. The three things driving that story were “Counterfeiting, Time, and Hollywood.” The ultimate result was In the Pip of Time, which you saw here.

Like I was saying, that was when this story started, but not when I finished it. I was having one of moments when the many characters I’ve written cross the boundaries of their stories. Cornelis Drebbel (of Copper, the Alchemist, and the Woman in Trousers) popped into the short story I was trying to write… I couldn’t make the story go where the “things” needed to take it — at least not at that time. (Applesauce! If that sounds like a lot…

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Jazz Age Wednesdays 12 ― Characters of the Three Things Serial Story

That little bit of intrigue makes me want to go read the book! Good work Teagan.

Teagan's Books

Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Hello everyone, it’s pos-i-lutely divine to see you here at Jazz Age Wednesdays! This time I thought a change of pace might be in order. I’m going back to the novella of the first serial, The Three Things Serial Story: A Little 1920s Story.

For those of you who are new to Teagan’s Books, this post is an introduction to the characters in that novella. Some of them come back for Murder at the Bijou — Three Ingredients I. If you’ve been following all along, then I hope this will be a fun visit with your old friends.

I hope the characters in this 1920’s serial have wiggled into your mind so comfortably that you have your own ideas of how they would look or sound. However, I thought it might be fun to show you how I imagine them. So in no…

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