Nikki Magennis' Notes for the New Rakes

I know that some of you already spied these notes on Nikki's blog. But they're too good to miss! As many of you know, Nikki is my go-to girl for lovely short pieces. She can take 100 words and spin a magic web. Of course, her longer works (stories and novels) are divine, as well. These notes are from her rock 'n roll masterpiece:

For Alison, here are some what I s'pose you could call notes from The New Rakes.

Right at the start of writing it, Lina was called 'Jacqui' and the whole story was totally different - there were going to be a lot of liaisons in a deserted hotel, which you can see there with ragged red velvet curtains. I'd made a whole A1 board of pictures, characters and locations. I have also got folders full of scribbled notes, A, but I thought this was prettier!

Funnily enough, though I don't think I specified Kara's hair colour in the text, I was obviously thinking of pink hair when I gathered these pics. And it's pink on the finished book's cover! Gosh, psychic cover-art editors - what a blessing!

Please do keep sending your notes to msalisontyler at yahoo dot com. You don't need to be a porn writer, either. Just a writer.

XXX,
Alison