About this episode

The episode celebrates Valentine's Day by exploring the Cupid and Psyche myth within the Cormoran Strike series and discussing recent news about the upcoming novel.

Happy Valentine’s Day! Mrs Murray met the UK StrikeFans.com contingent and Badly WiredLamp (“and friends”) on Thursday to talk about the Cormoran Strike novels. Yesterday, Friday the 13th, Rowling tweeted about the secret she had told them — the title of Strike9 : Nick Jeffery found the most likely source of the title Sleep Tight, Evangeline , assuming it is not an anagram, in six minutes: BadlyWiredLamp who was at the Rowling meeting congratulated Nick on twixter seven minutes later: “Well done for finding it Nick!” with a hand salute emoji. Which semi-confirmation from a witness suggests he is spot on. Even more impressive, Nick wrote up a flash post about The Whiskey Shambles and other ‘Evangeline’ possibilities at the HogwartsProfessor weblog, ‘ Sleep Tight, Evangeline – Title Release for Strike 9 .’ Nick and John will be discussing this news as well as the Psalter and Head of Persephone charms with miniature book, Tolkien, and mythology expert Dimitra Fimi this weekend for a post here next week. See her ‘ Miniature Books in Children’s Fantasy ’ to prepare for that conversation. Stay tuned! But it’s Valentine’s Day! John and Nick celebrate this Hallmark Holiday with a journey…

People in this episode

Host: John Granger

Guests: Nick Jeffery, Dimitra Fimi

Topics covered

• Valentine's Day
• Cormoran Strike
• Cupid and Psyche myth
• Rowling's works
• literary analysis
• mythology

Keywords

• Valentine's Day
• Cormoran Strike
• Cupid and Psyche
• Rowling
• literary analysis
• mythology
• Nick Jeffery
• Dimitra Fimi

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: StrikeFans.com

Books & works: Sleep Tight, Evangeline, The Whiskey Shambles, Miniature Books in Children’s Fantasy, Cormoran Strike novels, Hallmarked Man

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