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The English version is in the bottom drawer, but the German translated version had a wonderful life at a theatre…
There has to be rejection, otherwise the poor readers of the world would be even more submerged in badly written…
Karl Whitney describes how a mundane government document was the unlikely spark for his first book. Karl Whitney describes how…
Sometimes readers get in touch to tell me how they’ve been affected by things I’ve written. In the interchanges that…
The wonder and generosity in her books make them irresistible. Simply put, Susan Fletcher creates worlds I want to live…
Sarah LeFanu explores the biographer’s dilemma when it comes to names, and Caroline Brothers considers the issue of cultural appropriation.…
I tend to read what I am trying to write. So, novels, when I am in the thick of a…
Rejection hurts because it is so personal. Your writing is you. You are naked and exposed. Rejection hurts because it…
I used to plan. I don’t plan now. Preconceptions are mostly impediments. The point of the process is to let…
Meeting and working with hundreds of students was also new; an experience by turns humbling, saddening, stimulating. Meeting and working…
Amanda Dalton describes how a childhood brush with the uncanny almost stopped her writing. Amanda Dalton describes how a childhood…
At the end of Basil we are told that Ralph is ’emancipated from many of the habits which once enthralled…
