Tilly Bagshawe – Filling Sidney Sheldon’s Shoes

Tilly Bagshawe is well known for her latest efforts Mistress of the Game and After the Darkness, so it’s quite normal for readers to have questions about how she got involved in writing the Sidney Sheldon legacy. Tilly Bagshawe attributes it to luck and the fact that she was there just in time.

Tilly was in the right place, just in time

Sidney Sheldon’s agent, Mort Janklow, was her agent’s father. He came up with the idea to carry on the legacy of the dead author and his son Luke suggested that Tilly Bagshawe might be the right person to do the job. All her life, Tilly Bagshawe was her fan and wrote to her when her first book was published. Her response was warm as always, and it was very encouraging to the new writers (she still has that letter).

The Sheldon family promoted the project

However, the main promoters of the idea were the Sheldon family itself. Tilly Bagshawe came up with several ideas and tried to create the voice of Sidney Sheldon, eventually getting a chance to work on the project. The task of writing with Sidney Sheldon’s voice was expected to be harrowing, although Tilly Bagshawe approached it in the most professional manner. She read almost all of his titles until the moment when the thought processes in her mind became almost natural to her. She also spoke to her agent, Mort Janklow, about how he worked himself, although the whole process turned out to be emotionally tough for her, as writing in her own voice was so much easier.

It started with real life events

The book itself was completed in eight months, and the basic idea for the book came at the time of the Madoff scandal and the author took the idea from the news itself. He started with the premise of what would happen if his wife did not know what was happening. The financial collapse in 2009 was also similar to the events in the Sidney Sheldon novels.

Tilly won’t let you go

His books capture the interest of readers immediately and you can’t let them go. The story progresses at a rapid pace and you are sure to get addicted to the characters. In the book After the Darkness, the transformation of the heroine is extremely addictive and exciting. She is very loyal, firm and remains that way even if most of what she believed turned out to be false. She was attracted to Lenny because she lost her father at a young age and wanted to re-create a similar relationship in her life.

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