When you write a book it needs a cover. And when you write fictional characters you want to see them. And thus – you need an artist.
My luck is to be friends with one of the very best – Anne Gyrite Shütt. She agreed to help me find out exactly what Anna and Christian look like. I could describe them but not draw. She could.
This video is made from three visits to her studio where from the get go we decided to record the meetings. I’m glad we did. It’s just 4½ minutes of maybe 3 hours of footage, and yes, we did talk about Christian too.
I’m sorry about the double texting, but to be honest I couldn’t find the original when I wanted to do and English text version, so – here’s both.
It’s Anne on the left and me almost out of the picture. My hands show sometimes. I wasn’t the important one. Anne’s done another five covers for me later, but this is where we decide what Anna and Christian actually look like. I was over the moon.
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She’s a history buff like me. We met in the Middle Ages. And – she knows about crime. She is frequently in court to draw from the proceedings.