Q. Final query: the boxing match at the Hayes School: You describe it very vividly. Did something like that happen during your time at school?
A. Yes, and it happened pretty much as described. The teacher-referee did not allow a
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low blow from my opponent to go unchallenged, but otherwise the fight occurred as written. Believe it or not, even the provocation was the same. Needless to say, that fight was a traumatic event in my early life, and thus I was happy to find a way of working it into a novel, a classic writer's way of taming the power of an unpleasant memory.
Many of
William Bayer
's novels are available in e-editions from Crossroad Press: his
Janek
series (
Switch
,
Wallflower
and
Mirror Maze
); his Kay Farrow novels (
The Magician's Tale
,
Trick Of Light
); his foreign detective series (
Tangier
;
Pattern Crimes
); and his noir novel (
Blind Side
).
The French language edition of
The Dream Of The Broken Horses
(
Le R
ê
ve
Des
Chevaux
Bris
é
s
) won the French literary award
Le Prix de
Myst
è
re.
He and his wife, food writer Paula
Wolfert
, live in the California wine country.
For more information, please check out his website:
www.williambayer.com
. You can also write him directly: [email protected].