Deviance. London Psychic Book 3 (24 page)
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As with all my books, this one is based on real places and then spun off into a new direction for the story. For images relating to the book, check out the
Deviance Pinterest board
.
Cross Bones Graveyard
Cross Bones is a post-medieval burial ground, that much is true, since excavations found an overcrowded graveyard during the construction of the London Underground Jubilee Line.
John Constable, a Southwark writer, is responsible for the interpretation of it as an unconsecrated graveyard for the Outcast Dead, women who were licensed by the church to work as prostitutes and their children, their sin used to fund the lifestyle and buildings of the clergy. John is an urban shaman under the name John Crow, who also channeled a Winchester Goose to write
The Southwark Mysteries
. He also leads walks around the borough. You can find more about his work here at
SouthwarkMysteries.co.uk
.
The character of Magda Raven was influenced by John Constable/John Crow, and also by the book
Pastrix
by Nadia Bolz-Weber.
When I first started writing the book, Cross Bones Graveyard was under the threat of development by Transport for London, but in
Jan 2015, Bankside Open Spaces Trust
was given temporary planning permission and a three-year lease for a memorial garden.
You can find videos and more information at
Crossbones.org.uk
Tattoos
If you want to know more about the meaning of tattoos and body modification, then check out
Pagan Fleshworks: The Alchemy of Body Modification
by Maureen Mercury.
You can see tattoos I love on the
Pinterest board
and yes, I am intending to get ink!
Octopus
The scene that Blake reads in O's pendant is from my own scuba diving experience at the Poor Knights Islands in New Zealand years ago. A huge octopus swam by, stopping for a moment to hang in the water and check me out before swimming on. I've seen a lot of octopi in holes and crevices but this is the only one I've seen in open water. I had the sense of something so alien, yet also intelligent. I've seen the same look in the eyes of dolphins when swimming wild with them.
This fascination with octopi led to the emergence of O's tattoo in
Desecration
, so I wanted to write about its origin story here.
Sex trade in London
It's fascinating how much of London is shaped by the history of the sex trade. The main books used for my research were
City of Sin
by Catharine Arnold and
The Secret History of Georgian London: How the Wages of Sin Shaped the Capital
by Dan Cruickshank
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Joanna Penn is the
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and
USA Today
bestselling author of thrillers on the edge. Joanna has a Master’s degree in Theology from the University of Oxford, Mansfield College and a Graduate Diploma in Psychology from the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
She lives in London, England but spent eleven years in Australia and New Zealand. Joanna worked for thirteen years as an international business consultant within the IT industry, but is now a full-time author-entrepreneur. She is the author of the ARKANE series as well as other thrillers, crime and horror.
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Thanks to Jonathan, for joining me on sex tours of Southwark and indulging my weird obsessions at the Tattoo Convention.
Thanks to Jen Blood, my fantastic editor, to Wendy Janes for proofreading and thanks to Jane Dixon Smith for cover design and interior print formatting. Thanks also to Dan Holloway for beta reading.
Copyright
© J.F. Penn (2015). All rights reserved.
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is fictionalized or coincidental.