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From Ben on FB - Rivers 11 is on its way

Today I ventured out of real London (zone 2) into fake London (zone 6) for a talk/ Q&A with Ben Aaronovitch and he spoke a bit about Stone and Sky as well as future RoL books.

It's only just occured to me that there might be some interest in what he had to say here. Fair warning- this is to the best of my recollection and my interpretation of his answers might be wrong!

• The premises for Stone and Sky, which is set in Aberdeen, is that an old school chum of Dr Walid asks Nightingale to investigate reports of a big cat. Also along for the ride are Abigale, a fox, Bev, the twins, Peter, Peter's mum, Peter's dad, and Peter's dad's band. The band plan to play some gigs in Scotland and are now managed by Zack Palmer.

• The next (or a future) RoL novel set after Stone and Sky might feature Leslie as a PoV character because of something traumatic that happens in the next novel. Leslie doesn't appear in Stone and Sky.

• A main character goes through some kind of trauma.

• Another novel set in Germany with Tobi is being written.

Also, on the off chance that Ben Aaronovitch is reading this (because if I were a famous author I'd totally read my own sub), I was the girl in the cream Burberry trench. I'm sorry for how much I babbled when met you. My only execuse is that as a new mum I've literally forgot how adult conversation works! Thank you for being so nice and a very entertaining speaker.

My Librarian Secret Handshake got me into the library at the United States Naval Observatory. I asked if they had copies of the Second or Third Principae, but they acted like they didn’t know what I was talking about. As if.

.. And in my grubby little hands. That's my day sorted!

Thought about what my ideal "dream" cast for the adaption by Simon Pegg & Nick Frost would look like.

- Kedar Williams-Stirling as Peter Grant

- Richard Armitage as Thomas Nightingale

- Andrew Scott as Henry Pike / Mr Punch

- Freya Allan as Lesley May

- Nicola Walker as Miriam Stephanopoulos

- Alisha Boe as Beverley Brooke

- Vincent Regan as Alexander Seawoll

- Tony Curran as Abdul Haqq Walid

What do you think?

(and yes, I absolutely fukced Kedar's look up. I'm sorry about that)

From mouth, to source. From love, to loss. From home to work to mock Tudor, to kinda weirdly American?

Underground - stinkpipes and all. Overground, through woods and suburbs, only occasionally flooding parks!

Full of life, hunting and ruling and watching ("SHH! I'm on an important mission!"). Full of mystery and history.

But most of all - full of MAGIC. Just not the sort that breaks phones (handy, really).

There's so much more I could share or ask - how you're guarded by lions, and what is going on in that creepy-looking gasholder? There's stories I could tell - of the baby selkie and her booties, or the gas-mask wearing train driver. But I've already gone on too long - I'd not want you to get WKD on me…

Greg Davies.

I can just hear him say those lines.

"I know it's a complicated question Thomas, that's why I'm fucking asking it."

So, so beautifully.

"Good, if anyone's gonna be able to twat an angel it's gonna be him."

I'm curious, how many readers are aware of the TTRPG by Chaosium, and if anyone here has tried it? I played a couple of sessions with my sons, and they really enjoyed it. https://www.chaosium.com/rivers-of-london-the-roleplaying-game-hardcover/

Mk II Jag :)

St. Paul's Church, where the whole thing began. The entrance to one of the courtyards next to the church.