ONLY 2 MORE DAYS! Whoohoo! On Monday, A POCKET IN TIME (Time Weavers, Inc Book 2) releases and I’m so excited. I had a lot of fun writing this book. Even the research was fun, especially learning some of the language of 19th Century backstreet London.
Did you know that “to dive” or “to draw” meant to pick a pocket. In my book, Katz’s asks Covey: “Where are you diving today?”
He pulled his short coat straight and stood with his shoulders back. “Why, I’ll be hobnobbing with me peers on Chancery Lane, I will.”
A “Jack in the box” meant a person who was a swindler. When Katz meets Giles, she doesn’t like him at all. Covey confirms her feeling: He looked around before leaning across the table and lowering his voice. “Smart enough to know Hum shouldna brought that jack-in-the-box here.”
Then there’s “figging-law” which Katz explains quite nicely: She raised her eyebrows at that. “Is not a distraction what you need for figging law?” She’d learned that phrase from young Pip just yesterday. It meant pickpocketing.
He shook his head. “Not one that’s remembered. I’m not drawing today. Goin’ to earn an honest livin’. Just watching horses mostly. It’s why I put on my finest togs.”
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