This segment (starts at 2:30) from Tony Robinson’s show Worst Jobs In History was the beginning of my forthcoming novel The Bee-Loud Glade. I’d been kicking around an idea for a monastic novel after a blog back-and-forth with AKMA a few years ago, but it wasn’t going anywhere; perhaps because I was trying to somehow write a monastic novel that wasn’t religious. Then I saw the show and said, “Aha, a hermit!” and the idea more or less came together. But only the idea; unfortunately, Tony Robinson never came round to help with the writing.

Who says TV is bad for books?

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