I'm very pleased that you like it! It was something different and in many ways more ambitious than what I usually attempt, so I did worry.
I've been known to claim I'm in Remix for the cool titles, so I spent lots of time browsing Shelley (not one of my favorite poets, I must confess, though I've certainly warmed to him) looking for suitable lines, and it really did pay off. I found all the lines quoted here and more besides!
It was fun writing DEATH, and also Shelley - both distinctive voices. DEATH can be colloquial in the books, but only in certain ways, and I wanted to make sure Shelley sounded old-fashioned and poetic without going over the top into parody.
P.S. Other remix ideas I considered, because I love to talk about Remixing and you might be interested to know: expanding the Lyra drabble from your set of "Three Girls and an Angel..." (Remix subtitle would've been (The English Girls Approximately Remix)); remixing "Amid the Sacred Wreck" as the notes and encounters of a Book of Kells researcher (who would've been revealed as eventually abandoning the non-fiction angle and writing a historical romance instead).
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I've been known to claim I'm in Remix for the cool titles, so I spent lots of time browsing Shelley (not one of my favorite poets, I must confess, though I've certainly warmed to him) looking for suitable lines, and it really did pay off. I found all the lines quoted here and more besides!
It was fun writing DEATH, and also Shelley - both distinctive voices. DEATH can be colloquial in the books, but only in certain ways, and I wanted to make sure Shelley sounded old-fashioned and poetic without going over the top into parody.
P.S. Other remix ideas I considered, because I love to talk about Remixing and you might be interested to know: expanding the Lyra drabble from your set of "Three Girls and an Angel..." (Remix subtitle would've been (The English Girls Approximately Remix)); remixing "Amid the Sacred Wreck" as the notes and encounters of a Book of Kells researcher (who would've been revealed as eventually abandoning the non-fiction angle and writing a historical romance instead).