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We find out how to get involved with Read Hour this week with the Adventures on Trains author Sam Sedgman, and hear how you can use your imagination to do amazing things with comedian and actor Babatunde Aleshe! As always with a new book we have LOADS of new books to tell you about too! Join Fun Kids Podcasts+: https://funkidslive.com/plusSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We find out how to get involved with Read Hour this week with the Adventures on Trains author Sam Sedgman, and hear how you can use your imagination to do amazing things with comedian and actor Babatunde Aleshe! As always with a new book we have LOADS of new books to tell you about too! <a href="https://funkidslive.com/plus" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Join Fun Kids Podcasts+: https://funkidslive.com/plus</a>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

Read Hour with Sam Sedgman and Babatunde Aleshe!

There is a Golden Age of detective fiction going on at the very moment, but because most of what’s being written is aimed at 8-to-12 year-olds, it gets overlooked by, like, grown-ups.  I’m trying to raise awareness of this with my frequent Minor Felonies posts, and it’s partly in pursuit of this aim that I’m delighted to welcome M.G. Leonard and Sam Sedgman — authors of the excellent Adventures on Trains series — to my nerdy detective fiction podcast, In GAD We Trust.  Ahead of the publication of fifth entry in the series Sabotage on the Solar Express (2022) and Sam’s non-fiction book about train journeys Epic Adventures (2022), both published on 17th February, Maya and Sam sat down to discuss writing murder for a potentially sensitive audience, how to clue a solution without making it too obscure, the importance of their collaboration with Elisa Paganelli, and the explosion of detective fiction available for younger readers in recent years. There are also quite a few parallels between the classic-era Golden Age titles of a century ago and the work being done in the younger market, and it was lovely to get some perspective on this from two people actively involved in writing high-quality, engaging, and well-motivated mysteries.  I know the step to books for 8 year-olds might seem an odd one to take for those of you raised on a diet of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers, but I’m hoping the discussion — not least the point about the rigour of audience expectations, and the need for everything to hang together for a book to be read five or six times — will at least give you something to think about. Anyway, onwards with the chat… I’m very grateful to Maya and Sam for their time, to Jonny Berliner for my theme tune, and to you all at home for listening.  In GAD We Trust is now a monthly undertaking, rather than a fortnightly one, and will definitely stop at some point, but while it’s fun I’m going to keep putting these out yet. You can find all previous episodes on the blog by clicking here. ~ The Adventures on Trains series by M.G. Leonard and Sam Sedgman 1. The Highland Falcon Thief (2020)2. Kidnap on the California Comet (2020)3. Murder on the Safari Star (2021)4. Danger at Dead Man’s Pass (2021)5. Sabotage on the Solar Express (2022)6. The Arctic Railway Assassin (2022)

There is a Golden Age of detective fiction going on at the very moment, but because most of what’s being written is aimed at 8-to-12 year-olds, it gets overlooked by, like, grown-ups. I’m trying to raise awareness of this with my frequent <a href="https://theinvisibleevent.com/tag/juvenile-mysteries" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Minor Felonies</a> posts, and it’s partly in pursuit of this aim that I’m delighted to welcome <a href="https://www.mgleonard.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">M.G. Leonard</a> and <a href="https://samsedgman.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Sam Sedgman</a> — authors of the excellent Adventures on Trains series — to my nerdy detective fiction podcast, In GAD We Trust. Ahead of the publication of fifth entry in the series Sabotage on the Solar Express (2022) and Sam’s non-fiction book about train journeys Epic Adventures (2022), both published on 17th February, Maya and Sam sat down to discuss writing murder for a potentially sensitive audience, how to clue a solution without making it too obscure, the importance of their collaboration with <a href="https://elisapaganelli.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Elisa Paganelli</a>, and the explosion of detective fiction available for younger readers in recent years. There are also quite a few parallels between the classic-era Golden Age titles of a century ago and the work being done in the younger market, and it was lovely to get some perspective on this from two people actively involved in writing high-quality, engaging, and well-motivated mysteries. I know the step to books for 8 year-olds might seem an odd one to take for those of you raised on a diet of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers, but I’m hoping the discussion — not least the point about the rigour of audience expectations, and the need for everything to hang together for a book to be read five or six times — will at least give you something to think about. Anyway, onwards with the chat… I’m very grateful to Maya and Sam for their time, to Jonny Berliner for my theme tune, and to you all at home for listening. In GAD We Trust is now a monthly undertaking, rather than a fortnightly one, and will definitely stop at some point, but while it’s fun I’m going to keep putting these out yet. You can find all previous episodes on the blog <a href="https://theinvisibleevent.com/category/in-gad-we-trust" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">by clicking here</a>. ~ The Adventures on Trains series by M.G. Leonard and Sam Sedgman 1. <a href="https://theinvisibleevent.com/2022/01/04/the-highland-falcon-thief-leonard-sedgman/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">The Highland Falcon Thief</a> (2020) 2. Kidnap on the California Comet (2020) 3. <a href="https://theinvisibleevent.com/2021/03/30/murder-on-the-safari-star-mg-leonard-sam-sedgman/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Murder on the Safari Star</a> (2021) 4. Danger at Dead Man’s Pass (2021) 5. Sabotage on the Solar Express (2022) 6. The Arctic Railway Assassin (2022)