Craft Chat Call for Submissions: The Pooh Files

[Sedayne]

Want to try your hand at detective fiction with a very specific remit?

Try this:

The Inspector Pooh Case Files (Series) – White City Press

whitecitypress.com

Now that Winnie the Pooh is in the public domain (not the Disney version), White City Press are looking for detective stories starring everyone's favourite bear and his various side-kicks.

 

[Sedayne]

Not sure I'll come up with anything substantial enough for 40,000 words before the end of November. And detective fiction is not really my thing.

But I've been thinking about it.

A prostitute found murdered in the Hundred Acre Wood? Then her pimp is found hanged nearby.
Too dark? Not terribly nostalgic. But it would be authentically British - which is what they're after.
Tigger would find the first body, Eeyore the second.
I have an image in my head of Pooh and Piglet playing pooh sticks while they work on the case.

But what puts me off the most about this project, is that the only female character in Winnie-the-Pooh is Kanga, who only serves as Roo's mother. We put up with an awful lot of androcentric nonsense in our childhood's, didn't we?

Could Piglet be non-binary after all?

 

[Hannah Faoileán]

Inspector Pooh stares at his list of suspects: Tigger's the only one.