Alice Feeney
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194 appearances
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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Oh my goodness. Again, I'm worried it sounds so rude. Doesn't it? I mean, what on earth could that be?
Right. Wow.
Okay. Well, I'm going to make it my mission to find one while I'm here in America.
Oh, well, it's always different. Sometimes I just know their names. So with Sometimes I Lie, I remember waking up again between three and four, which I think is my magical witching hour. And I just knew three things. I had this story in my head that I woke up with and I thought I've got to write it down straight away. I'm going to forget. And so I had this...
very cheap strange little board from a shop called Woolworths that we used to have in the UK which mostly sold sweets I'm obsessed with talking about sweets today but I remember writing on it in my sort of half asleep dazed state that the main character's name was Amber Reynolds I just knew it from my dream and there were three things I had to remember about her that number one she was in a coma number two her husband didn't love her anymore and
And that became the book. I mean, that became the opening and it was the crux of the story. So I literally woke up with that name in my head. For Grady Green, I think I just really like names with a smidgen of alliteration. So I've had a Priya Patel in his and hers or Yeah, Grady Green in this particular book.
And I have a future book, so a book that won't be out next year, a book that will be out the year after. Two of the main characters in that are actually names of people who came to a book signing at a tiny little bookshop in Cornwall in England. Because I see all these names when I'm signing books for people in the queue after events.
And sometimes people have these amazing, beautiful names that I've never heard of before. And I remember meeting this very sweet girl at this bookshop a few years ago when we were promoting Daisy Darker. And I just stopped what I was doing. And that's not a good idea when you've got a long queue of people waiting for signatures.
I said, oh, my goodness, that's just the most amazing name I've ever heard. Would you mind if I used that in a book? Because she was a fan. She had all the books. I knew she would read it one day.
And it's an unusual name. So it would be a huge coincidence if I'd chosen it any other way. And she said, I'd be so thrilled if you did that. And she left the queue and then she ran back. She said, by the way, just in case. My sister's called, and I won't say what it is, this other name. And my goodness, their parents were really on it. They were two fantastic names.
And I said, I'm going to use them both one day. I don't know when, but I will. And I have. So in a couple of years time, that very sweet girl I met in a queue a few years ago, in line in a bookshop in Cornwall, we'll see her name in one of the books.
So yes, people should come to the events because you might end up in a book.
I mean, I'm not always nice about it. We renovated a very old batch cottage a few years ago and we had an awful plumber. I really, really did not like this man. He, you know, we turned on the new system for the first time and the walls actually were crying. You know, there was water running out everywhere, floods everywhere. And he was such a, he was such a, he was not a good person.
He was, he was not a goodie. So I murdered him in a book and I felt so much better. That's the best thing I ever heard. I felt,
I felt so much better afterwards suddenly I you know he was all forgiven and I felt I felt better again and he'll say karma he'll never read it so it's fine so I get the names from he might after hearing this podcast he might he might I get the names from all over the place um yes I mean I think that's funny do you get any inspiration from any other authors
Oh, yes. I mean, too many to mention, probably. But as a child, I was a bit obsessed with Stephen King books. I was good at school academically, really bad at sport, could not catch a ball, still can't. You know, we do netball and someone throw a ball, just hit me. I couldn't catch a ball. What is netball? Oh, my goodness. All these things are different.
No, you throw the ball and if you're not me, you catch it. And then you, it's a bit like basketball as in there's a net and you throw it. Yeah, there you go. Netball. Is that only in the UK? I don't think so. I didn't used to think so. But when you catch the ball, you have to stand still. But even that wasn't a problem for me because I could never catch it. So no good at sports.
Really slow at running. And I'm quite short. I find it really comical that my feet actually don't touch the ground here. Oh.
yeah no they really don't i'm very i'm really short so i'm sitting i feel like a child or like an oompa loompa i'm from from willie wonka land um uh no but so you know they'd they'll shoot things like the hurdles at school i can't jump over things for goodness sakes got little stumpy legs here um so uh no no good at sport but good academically so we'd have these prize givings at the end of the school year okay nothing for the sports side but i i could
I could write, I could do English, and I could add things up in math. So I'd win at that and I'd get like a, the prize you would get would be book tokens. And then you could choose your book and then you'd go up on stage, meet a local celebrity, shake their hands. You know, the headmaster would read something out about you, get your book.
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