the Pat and Ellen show
May. 5th, 2025 05:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
calimacOn my way to the Cal Sym on Saturday, it was easy enough to pass through the City (the one Not Long After) and attend a event at a small branch library by the always-entertaining tag team of Pat Murphy and Ellen Klages.
The occasion was the publication of Pat's first novel in some years, The Adventures of Mary Darling (Tachyon Publications), which was available on a side table from Jacob Weisman, its publisher. You can get it, and a lot of other good stuff, here, or at the online or brick retailer of your choice. But I didn't, because B. had already bought it electronically.
When B. had told me the title of Pat's book, I responded, "That sounds like something she'd do." Pat spent most of the occasion talking about the book and reading from it. She'd always been interested in Peter Pan - from the novel, mostly; she's never seen the Disney version - and wanted to take the children's mother's viewpoint of their vanishing off somewhere. (Cue in my mind thought of Sherwood Smith's "Mom and Dad on the Home Front.")
So: it's Victorian London. Your children have mysteriously disappeared. The police don't seem to be much help. Who you gonna call?
Sherlock Holmes!
And the story is off and running.
(What, you say? Holmes is a fictional character? Well, so is Mary Darling. If she can exist, so can he.)
A lot of this sounds like fun. (Where is Neverland, anyway? And why does it have American Indians? All is explained.) I'm saving this one up to occupy my next tedious wait.
The occasion was the publication of Pat's first novel in some years, The Adventures of Mary Darling (Tachyon Publications), which was available on a side table from Jacob Weisman, its publisher. You can get it, and a lot of other good stuff, here, or at the online or brick retailer of your choice. But I didn't, because B. had already bought it electronically.
When B. had told me the title of Pat's book, I responded, "That sounds like something she'd do." Pat spent most of the occasion talking about the book and reading from it. She'd always been interested in Peter Pan - from the novel, mostly; she's never seen the Disney version - and wanted to take the children's mother's viewpoint of their vanishing off somewhere. (Cue in my mind thought of Sherwood Smith's "Mom and Dad on the Home Front.")
So: it's Victorian London. Your children have mysteriously disappeared. The police don't seem to be much help. Who you gonna call?
Sherlock Holmes!
And the story is off and running.
(What, you say? Holmes is a fictional character? Well, so is Mary Darling. If she can exist, so can he.)
A lot of this sounds like fun. (Where is Neverland, anyway? And why does it have American Indians? All is explained.) I'm saving this one up to occupy my next tedious wait.
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Date: 2025-05-05 05:10 pm (UTC)(Also, clever past me put a hold on it at the library in March, and now I'm first in the queue.)