Corky corcoran biography of william
Looney Coote, another old schoolfriend, a superstitious chap!
More and more lately, I’ve been getting asked this question: How did I come up with Cork O’Connor as the protagonist for my series?
Corky corcoran biography of william
So here’s the answer.
Long before I began to think about writing a mystery, a character began to take shape in my imagination. The first thing I knew about him was that he was going to be the kind of guy who was so resilient that no matter how far down life pushed him, he would always bob back to the surface.
His name would be Cork. Because I was about forty then and going through the first of a couple of midlife crises, I imagined him confused about life, maybe in some kind of meltdown, struggling, pushed about as far down as he’d ever been.
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I saw him as having a family (probably because I had a family and it was easy to imagine). I saw him as a guy ordinary-looking as sidewalk concrete, and not very macho. But I also thought he would be the kind of guy you knew instinctively that you could trust, that if you asked something of him and he gave his wor