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16 January 2024<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Simon Mason has pursued parallel careers as a publisher and an author, whose YA crime novels Running Girl<\/em><\/a>, Kid Got Shot<\/em><\/a> and Hey, Sherlock!<\/em><\/a> feature the sixteen-year-old slacker genius Garvie Smith. A former Managing Director of David Fickling Books, where he worked with many wonderful writers, including Philip Pullman, he has also taught at Oxford Brookes University and is currently a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Exeter College, Oxford.<\/p>\n

His latest series for adults is the DI Wilkins mysteries. His novels have been shortlisted for a number of awards, including the Branford Boase Prize for Best First Children\u2019s Novel, the Guardian Children\u2019s Fiction Prize, the Costa Prize for Best Children\u2019s Book, and have won the Betty Trask for Best First Novel and the Crimefest Prize for Best YA Crime Novel.<\/p>\n

You can find Simon’s latest book, Lost and Never Found<\/em><\/a>, which is published by riverrun on 19th January, and his other titles on the Suffolk Community Libraries catalogue<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Who were your influences as you were growing up and did you have books around you as a child or use a library?<\/strong><\/p>\n

My standout early reading featured the Brer Rabbit stories, which I read without the slightest inkling that they were set in America and written in an American dialect \u2013 I just loved that badly behaved pipe-smoking rabbit. Later, I remember being vividly horrified by the shaving of Aslan in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe<\/em><\/a>. Also badly wanting to be ranger \u2018Strider\u2019 in The Lord of the Rings<\/em><\/a> \u2013 though with no interest whatsoever in king-in-hiding Aragorn, whom Strider turns into.<\/p>\n

My mother took me every week to our local library in Sheffield, Ecclesall library, where I discovered these and many other stories and listened to story readings, and where, in general, I was blessed with access to such riches.<\/p>\n

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When did your interest in writing really develop and what was your journey to publication?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Like perhaps many writers, I first wanted to write poetry, which I began to do<\/p>\n

When I was about fifteen, and for nearly ten years wrote nothing else. Intense if unsuccessful days: I miss them. I can\u2019t remember why I started to write fiction. Idle stupidity, I expect. But I was working in publishing and I knew the routes to publication. I duly wrote a novel and sent part of it to an agent, who offered to represent me \u2013 a wild leap of faith (and he\u2019s still my agent after 35 years) \u2013 and he sent it to publishers, one of whom \u2013 another equally mysterious leap of faith \u2013 offered to publish it. I\u2019m aware that all this was fluky.<\/p>\n

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You are an award winning writer of children’s fiction with titles like Moon Pie<\/em> and the Quigleys<\/em> series. What prompted your move into writing detective fiction?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, the Quigleys<\/em> and Moon Pie<\/em> received lovely reviews and \u2013 as you say \u2013 were noticed by (adult) prize-winning committees, but they didn\u2019t seem to reach many (young) readers, so I thought I\u2019d try to write something as popular as possible, and therefore the first thing to do was to write in a popular genre, like crime. Very mercenary of me.<\/p>\n

But in fact I\u2019ve always loved the way crime writers can tell a gripping story so I wanted to have a go. Anyway, I wrote three crime novels for young adults starring sixteen-year-old slacker genius Garvie Smith, beginning with Running Girl<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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DI Ray Wilkins is a sophisticated character at odds with his colleague DI Ryan Wilkins. How did you come up with their characters?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Daydreaming. The commonest comment from teachers in my school reports was \u2018Simon has problems concentrating\u2019, aka \u2018Simon spends his time staring out of the window in an absolute trance\u2019. So, I turned my weakness into the way I make my living. I live near a trailer park and one day as I went by Ryan strolled out of it into my imagination. Ray naturally followed immediately, as the most different character imaginable.<\/p>\n

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Lost and Never Found<\/strong><\/em><\/a> is your latest novel. Can you tell us a little about it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Celebrity socialite Zara Fanshawe\u2019s Rolls Royce Phantom is found crashed and abandoned at 3.10 am in dingy Becket Street in Oxford. Why has she been touring the homeless camps looking for \u2018Waitrose\u2019, the violent old homeless guy always pushing a shopping trolley? Tough-talking Glaswegian Superintendent, Dave \u2018Barko\u2019 Wallace passes over smooth-talking DI Ray Wilkins to make gobby DI Ryan Wilkins lead in the new investigation.<\/p>\n

The plot thickens, not least because of their private lives. Why is Chester Lynch, legendary uber-macho black female Deputy Chief Constable, showing such an interest in Ray? And what of Carol, mother of two and self-made business woman, who has a slightly unintelligible erotic interest in Ryan? Ray is resentful of Ryan. Ryan is suffering his usual cognitive conflict with rules, codes of conduct, press conference protocols and manners in general. Will they solve the case before one of them kills the other?<\/p>\n

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Any detective books set in Oxford will inevitably be compared with Inspector Morse. Is this a help or a hindrance for you as a writer?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I haven\u2019t read Morse. Or seen any of the television adaptations. I\u2019m sorry, but I just haven\u2019t.<\/p>\n

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Is there anything you can share with us about your latest project?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m just finishing the fourth \u2018Ryan\u2019 book, A Voice in the Night. At least I hope I am. In the middle of the night Greta Emmett, asleep in her house in Iffley Village, is telephoned by a caller at an emergency centre linked to a bracelet alarm worn by her elderly husband, a man with walking difficulties. The caller asks her where her husband is. As she begins to tell them that he\u2019s with her in bed, she realises he isn\u2019t any more. The caller recommends she get up and look round the house in case he\u2019s got up in the night and fallen. She does but he is not to be found.<\/p>\n

Two hours later the police receive a call from the night manager at a hotel in Sandford three miles away. There is an old man in his pyjamas lying spread-eagle in the middle of their lawn.<\/p>\n

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We are always looking for good book recommendations. Aside from your own work what have you read recently that you really enjoyed?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been on a Joan Didion jag. She\u2019s perhaps best-known as a writer of \u2018New Journalism\u2019 in 1970s and 80s California, but I\u2019ve been admiring her novels of American imperialism, Democracy<\/em> and The Last Thing He Wanted<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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What is the strangest or funniest thing that one of your readers has shared with you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

When I read The Quigleys<\/em> at my daughter\u2019s school, she felt she needed to show her classmates that I was her father so she came forward halfway through the reading and sat on my lap. I carried on reading. Then another girl felt she needed to show everyone that she was my daughter\u2019s best friend, so she came forward and also sat on my lap. I carried on reading. Then her best friend… etc., etc.<\/p>\n

When I had twenty children on top of me, and was in quite a lot of pain, a boy unknown to me or my daughter or apparently to anyone else in the class, was the only person not on top of me. He crawled forward commando-style and lay on my feet, the only bit of me not covered by the others. At last I finished reading.<\/p>\n

The teacher came back into the room, the children climbed off me, I got up to leave, took two steps forward and fell on my face. The little boy had carefully tied together my shoe laces. Not quite what you asked for. But it\u2019s something funny involving my readers. And, who knows, perhaps it was a critical comment.<\/p>\n

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Can you tell us one thing about yourself that your readers may not know?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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