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Friday, November 8, 2013

Interview with Davyd Gosselin

Davyd Gosselin is a pen name for David Mark Gosselin. He is a graduate of Concordia University's Creative Writing program and McGill University (Teaching). He writes detective and regular fiction when he's not out playing tennis or swimming. He has found great satisfaction reading his work at coffeehouses in Montreal.

He began reading Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew at seven, moved on to A. Conan Doyle by ten and continued in his teens with Ellery Queen, Dashiell Hammett and Agatha Christie. He loves American writers of 1920's Paris.

The Boathouse Murders is his first novel.
 
1. When did you discover your love for the written word?

I discovered by reading cereal boxes! Yeah, I was fascinated by the translations (in Canada all labeling is bilingual). Also, I read the dictionary at the breakfast table which concerned my mother for the longest time even though she always encouraged reading (and worked as a librarian).

 2. When did you begin your writing career?

I started writing when I was 12. It was poetry which I still write today, but keep for my own eyes and people close to me. The career part, I am still working on... which is to say I associate the word "career" with being paid to write.

 3. Tell us something that people may not know about you?

I can talk in front of 10,000 people, but I have to work harder in smallish groups.

4. Do you have a secret desire that may not ever come true?

Yes, I have a desire to drive in a demolition derby, but after three accidents involving automobiles, I may never!

 5. Do you have a favorite book?

Yes, The Great Gatsby is my all-time favorite. I read it first in a course at Concordia University, and did a presentation on it twice, involving multi-media.

6. A favorite author?

Dickens still amazes me, even after the many years that have passed since I read Great Expectations for the first time.

7. Do you have a favorite book that you’ve written?

No, everything I write deserves equal attention.

8. Any suggestions for pre-pubbed authors?
Write out of love and never forget the reward for writing as Sherwood Anderson said once, is the writing itself.

Bakerstreet Mansion is hosting a mystery retreat weekend and Professor Bevyn Jones receives a invitation to participate. He barely has time to breathe the fresh morning air when "Ladybug" sends him a text message, urging him to meet at the boathouse. He finds an open door and a few second later he is launched into a real murder of a single, white and nude female. Along the way, he meets Jennifer, dressed as Miss Scarlett; Bob, the mystery retreat weekend manager and former cult leader; Chief Murphy, fresh out of retirement and Detective Roy, a twisted arrow. Another dead body turns up as the number of suspects grows. Undeterred, Bevyn delves deeper into the secrets of the past, one involving his old martial arts teacher and the another, an accidental death that occurred in the same boathouse years before. The reader is taken down dark corridors and through hidden doors until in a chandelier-lit ballroom full of suspects and law enforcement officials, Bevyn exposes the guilty parties. Just when we think the story is finished, Bevyn Jones follows up on one last loose end... THE BOATHOUSE MURDERS


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