When you sit down to write, have as much fun as you can.’ I’ve only really been able to make a living out of it by television. Maupin is taking questions from the audience and has advice for aspiring writers: ‘Don’t dream of riches: they could come and they do to some. Especially after Mona announced: ‘I’m a simple English country dyke and don’t you forget it’.’ I’ve always wanted to write an English village novel. ‘1988 was about Thatcher announcing Clause 28 and I think Mona would have a few things to say about that.
Maupin is writing a new Tales book: ‘I’m working on a novel Mona Of The Manor which is a step back to when Mona Ramsey inherited a manor house in the Cotswolds in Babycakes. Neither knows whether Netflix will renew Tales for a second season. Linney is our interviewer and she is doing so at a venue where she played recently in one-woman show My Name Is Lucy Barton to great acclaim. My first friend died in 1982 and I killed off Jon Fielding because I wanted to put the horror of AIDS into the middle of it.’
Sometimes I’d be told: ‘I know where you’re going with this story’ and I’d veer away.’Īuthor Neil Gaiman described the first few books as a ‘Trojan horse’ and it’s a comparison Maupin identifies with. ‘It was great having dialogue with my readers. I’d come in late having had fun the night before. ‘Sometimes I’d be writing Wednesday’s column on a Monday. Maupin reminisces about Tales’ origins as a regular column in the San Francisco Chronicle. I loved the material and the experience was just magical.’ I can’t imagine what would have happened if I hadn’t done it. Linney also looks back with affection: ‘ Tales was my first or second job and I was terribly intimidated by film and television. Linney (pictured in the clip from the 1993 1st TV series of Tales), a producer of the new Tales (see clip below), explains that there had been some resistance to Dukakis continuing the role because she is not transgender but excluding her didn’t feel right because of her commitment to the project from the very beginning.
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