Your Questions Part 4 and Reverse Q&A!

/ C. R. Hedgcock

Hello everyone! 🙂

It’s been a while since I did a Q&A post here (sorry about that). Many of you were intrigued by the idea of a reverse Q&A, where I ask you things I’m curious about. So after tackling a few of your questions, I’ll ask you some of my own!

 

1) Will the Predzels be in any future books?

I’m not sure yet. I haven’t planned to include them, but they may appear in a future story if they could help the main characters.

 

2) Did Sigurd get Gleym back?

Yes, definitely. 🙂 I love the fact that you remembered to ask about her!

 

3) Do we know what happened to Jigson’s parents?

Oh, I can’t wait for you to read Hunting in the Highlands! The answer is yes!

 

4) How much of the Hrein Orka in Iceland Intrigue is based on real science, and how much is fiction?

It’s mainly fiction … but who knows? Maybe there are principles of it that someone has yet to discover 😉

 

5) What is the significance of ‘Twelve Lemons’?

It’s a phrase with quite a personal meaning for Jigson and Detective Mortimer – otherwise it wouldn’t have guaranteed Jigson’s identity in Iceland Intrigue.

Is it part of a big mystery? Or is it something more innocuous? Will they spill the beans in Book 8? … Maybe!

 

6) When you wrote Hunting the Highlands did you plan out the whole book before you started writing?

Yes. I did make a careful plan so that the book would progress with logical structure and so I would know where the story was going – it had the potential to be quite confusing with characters splitting up and traipsing all over Scotland.

But the need to be flexible arose when I reached the end and realized that the climax was not right for the story … so a whole new ending had to be written!

Do you have burning questions for a future post? Send them via the contact page!

Now … here are my questions for you! 🙂

1. Who are your top 2 favourite male characters?

2. Who are your top 2 female characters?

3. Who is your favourite villain? (Miss Verton, Lewis Nickel, Bud Larone, Rolf/escaped convicts, Dainn, Herr Klaus, or someone else?)

4. Which is your favourite title in the series, and why?

5. Should one of the characters be in a relationship/courtship? Who and why? (I’m not promising anything by asking this 😉 I’m genuinely curious! 🙂 )

I look forward to finding out what you think! 🙂

4,874 thoughts on “Your Questions Part 4 and Reverse Q&A!”

  3. I’ve mentioned this before, and Millie basically says it in Hunting in the Highlands, but I am still confused about Dr. Roth. How does he know Sigurd? And, yes, this also has been said before, but I can’t help but feel that the Sloanes are important somehow. Do your research on them. You’ll see what I mean. Oh and the comment Miss Verton makes to Jigson, “I was sure I had a hand in picking all my employees. You must have been the exception.” makes me wonder how Jigson got in to the underground in the first place… I mean Miss Verton’s HQ, not the WW2 Underground!

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    • Oh yeah it could totally work our Pastor’s family is like that. They have 10 kids their oldest is 20 something and married, and their youngest just turned 3.

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    • So you probably have real winter there too! I was in B.C. last week, but the area we were at had no snow. I was so annoyed. It was colder –and snowier– at our house.

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  24. My favorite scenes are probably the elevator scene in Summer, the epilogue of Prisoner, and the last chapter of Iceland. Those last two nearly made me cry!

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  26. This is great! I mean, a bunch of people talking about some of the best groups of book that honour that Lord. What could be better? Plus, a lot of interesting rabbit trails…..Speaking of which…….

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  27. One of my all-time favorites is when Jigson aka Jeff is talking with Miss Verton in Arne’s farmhouse right before Gleymmerei runs away and he is taken to Dainn. I also love the scene in #4 where Phil is tacking about Rolf’s horse, Rolf gets knocked out, and Phil “joins the queue.” And of course, the epilogue of Prisoner of the Pyrenees. I also liked the part in Hunting in the Highlands where Millie, Alistair and Abby are working frantically to find the package. I was so mad when Tristan showed up!

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      • Totally! I loved how they explained the whole thing, and then found out that the answer was actually rather simple.

      • I like Physical Science and electricity. How many are homeschooled here? This is my last year but I’m graduating early.

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      • I was just looking through the posts again and I was reading in more depth (I had only scanned it over before) your description about holistic medicine. Thats really interesting! I have always liked the thought of being a herbalist is that sort of like it? Yes Dr. Axe! We really like him! Have you read his book “eat dirt”?

  28. Do any of you have friends or relatives who happen to have the name of an antagonist in the series? My cousin’s name is Tristan, and I love that name. Grrrr. Oh and Lewis is the first name of my Great grandfather. (On a side note, I have a brother we call Andy, several friends named Abby, an uncle named Phil, a friend named Charles, and a family called the Bakers. But no-one named Jigson, sadly….)

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  37. Abby and Millie. I feel a lot like Abby sometimes, but Millie seems to really love the same things I do. Writing, Journalism, digging into little known or not at all known stories, researching, working behind the scenes with a detective, noticing things other people don’t. It’s between those two. I also feel a lot like Phil sometimes because I am the oldest in my family, so I get a lot of the responsibility.

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  40. I loved that there were finally more dogs in the series. Who thinks the Bakers should get their own dog? A tracking, search and rescue dog!

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  44. I never thought about small details before, until I read about Miss Verton being Jigson’s sister. After that, I wondered: If that is possible, can it be that there are other things that we might have missed? I started noticing a slender thread that wove the books together, and then another, until I was sure that the adventures were connected on a level that none of us had previously guessed.
    Miss Verton.
    Is she in every book? Only books 1,4,5,6, and 7. (and by that, I mean she is involved somehow.) So what about 2 and 3? What do you think?

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    • That’s intriguing, but I think Miss Hedgcock, in the beginning, intended for the books to have separate plots and unconnected villains, until the concept of a global conspiracy of villains began to develop in The Treacherous Trail.

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  45. I think that there is a lot more to do with those criminals that were in the oakwood reserve. We never heard what happened to them. And also that other agent’s past? The one that del quira murdered before the bakers got involved? We don’t know much about his past.

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  49. I saw some of you play different musical instruments, I know a very little piano. What about different languages. I’m learning Latin, Dutch and German. Latin for school, German for a book I’m working on. Dutch because German and Dutch are really similar.

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