Playlist: Craftwork Inspiration
This mammoth playlist features some wonderful modern instrumental music that I listened to on repeat as I wrote Craftwork.
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Not the man Gosha thought he was when she married him.
The Comet Club and the New Romantics Movement
The Comet Club, stronghold of usurpers to the sainthood of Shadow and workplace of Johnny and Alfie, I pictured in my mind as a cross between the Bowery Ballroom in New York City, one of my favorite places to see live music, and the fabled Blitz Club of 1980s London.
Playlist: Gosha
Music that made me think of Gosha.
Denise Ogilvy and Memphis Design
The Memphis style of design was very big and avant-garde in the 1980s, and is the perfect external representation of excess for the law of attraction malarkey of Denise Ogilvy and Portia Twill-Quimby’s abundance scam.
The Crafty Guide to Cheyne Heath (Pt. 1)
Excerpted from a curious book I found hidden in the back of a dusty shelf in a used bookstore on Cape Cod: As we all know, we witches are never the most welcoming of people, save to the needy visitors to our kitchens, and the witches of Cheyne Heath are more unwelcoming than most, so…
Sir Wilfred Stepney
The character of Johnny’s friend and onetime lover, Sir Wilfred Stepney, is based on two painters: Lucian Freud, who wasn’t gay, and David Hockney, who is.