‘Foresters’ she shouted, as if the mail and the harness didn’t give it away. She received a growl from the assembled, but no one blocked her. They knew better, spilt beer or no. She was the fucking law"
You'll recall that I was kicking off a new project - a bit of fun I'm calling 'Foresters'.
It's an episodic miniseries featuring a grubby trio of Nottingham lawmen, working one of England's most dangerous beats in 1191AD.
The Extract is the slightly longer-than-usual pilot episode to introduce a few recurrent characters.
It's big and brash and stupid but hopefully you'll agree that it's also a lot of fun.
It's a lot more 'police' than my Novel about Robin Hood, and this makes it a little more fantasy, a little less history, but think 'medieval cop-show' and you've nailed it.
As before, I feel the sudden need to mention that it is in no way a thinly veiled ramble through some of my own police experiences, seen through a flimsy historical filter (no, wait, that's exactly what it is).
Click here for Extract and enjoy, share, comment.
-Tom
photo by Roy Smallpage
Hi Tom. I really enjoyed this! I thought it was a great mix of action and character building and you did a fantastic job of bringing the down and dirty medieval setting to life. It's looking very polished already and on my reading I had very few editing quibbles with it. Splendid job! I want to read more!
ReplyDeleteThanks Jon. Glad you liked it.
DeleteI thoroughly enjoyed this.I hope you find the time and enthusiasm for more..
ReplyDeleteThanks Gray, am midway through ep2. Don't quite think it'll be one a week, but close.
DeleteBest
-Tom