It was never meant to be so omnipresent.
This place called Turpenton.
It was just a name for a place that I thought up because I needed to think up a name for a place in an early draft of Last Night At The Stairways. And I got so attached to it, I never thought of a better place name. So the name stuck, and I'm stuck with the name.
I mean, Stairways is loosely based on a couple of old night clubs in my hometown of Croydon, south London. But I didn't want to namecheck Croydon in my fiction, mainly to protect the innocent and prevent an unmanageable influx of tourists to the area.
And Turpenton was the first made up name I could think of that sounded like a place without actually being a place.
But it wasn't meant to stick, and Turpenton East station certainly wasn't meant to crop up in The Wronged. And Turpenton General certainly wasn't meant to be the setting for A Dead Chick And Some Dirty Tricks.
But before you get to thinking he's gone Turpenton crazy, fear not. My next novel, the second to feature Jake 'will he/won't he start smoking again' Rodwell isn't going to be based anywhere near Turpenton.
I don't think.
This place called Turpenton.
It was just a name for a place that I thought up because I needed to think up a name for a place in an early draft of Last Night At The Stairways. And I got so attached to it, I never thought of a better place name. So the name stuck, and I'm stuck with the name.
I mean, Stairways is loosely based on a couple of old night clubs in my hometown of Croydon, south London. But I didn't want to namecheck Croydon in my fiction, mainly to protect the innocent and prevent an unmanageable influx of tourists to the area.
And Turpenton was the first made up name I could think of that sounded like a place without actually being a place.
But it wasn't meant to stick, and Turpenton East station certainly wasn't meant to crop up in The Wronged. And Turpenton General certainly wasn't meant to be the setting for A Dead Chick And Some Dirty Tricks.
But before you get to thinking he's gone Turpenton crazy, fear not. My next novel, the second to feature Jake 'will he/won't he start smoking again' Rodwell isn't going to be based anywhere near Turpenton.
I don't think.
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