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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "michaelconnelly187"
<michaelconnelly187@...> wrote:
>
> I really don't think I have any plans to bring Bosch
to Florida or
to come up with a new
> character that is located there. I didn't move there
for the
creative environment so I find
> myself always thinking in terms of Los Angeles as a
setting. But
having said that, I want to
> keep the series going for a while so I think I have
maybe one of
those fish out of water
> stories. And I don't think I would choose Florida to
place it. I
sort of planted a seed for this
> story when a few books back Harry's ex-wife and
daughter moved to
Hong Kong. I went
> there to research a possible book and I will go back
again. Whether
I end up writing it still
> remains to be seen. But the point is that if I do
that one book
where Harry finds himself
> out of town and in unfamiliar territory, I want it
to feel alien to
the reader, too, and Florida
> won't cut it.
I would have mentioned Viet Nam, but I thought I had written
enough already.
BTW, my son traveled to Viet Nam about ten years ago and had
no problems. He continued to travel in Laos and was met a
farmer from Cambodia who urged him to urged to cross the
border with him. My son wisely declined. I guess either of
those countries would be unexplored territories for you to
set a novel. Mark
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