Something about the stories she writes, probably. Near as I can tell, they're always skirting what's acceptable.
She and Melv Wright sometimes talk about what her next plot's going to be. Or rather, he peppers her with questions and then tells her if he thinks her ideas are full of holes. She had one where one of the important characters was going to be a squib, but he talked her out of it. Still, she's always having some stupid Ministry bureaucrat get in the way of the hero's saving the day, or she has some MLE buffoon ruin all the evidence and make it nearly impossible to solve the mystery. (She doesn't call them MLE, I don't think, but I doubt anyone's fooled.)
Mind you, I don't think she's going to be another Astra Morgansen. Her books keep it all pretty light--she hides all her barbs behind humour. Pretty low humour a lot of the time. They're written for boys, mostly.
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Something about the stories she writes, probably. Near as I can tell, they're always skirting what's acceptable.
She and Melv Wright sometimes talk about what her next plot's going to be. Or rather, he peppers her with questions and then tells her if he thinks her ideas are full of holes. She had one where one of the important characters was going to be a squib, but he talked her out of it. Still, she's always having some stupid Ministry bureaucrat get in the way of the hero's saving the day, or she has some MLE buffoon ruin all the evidence and make it nearly impossible to solve the mystery. (She doesn't call them MLE, I don't think, but I doubt anyone's fooled.)
Mind you, I don't think she's going to be another Astra Morgansen. Her books keep it all pretty light--she hides all her barbs behind humour. Pretty low humour a lot of the time. They're written for boys, mostly.