If you haven’t seen Living Literary, the new feature on my Patreon page, let me tell you how it works. Living Literary consists of writing prompts. If you are a…Continue readingWhat is the Living Literary?
Fictional liars The Unreliable Narrator is a character who tells the reader a story which cannot be entirely trusted, or taken at face value. The narrator might be deliberately deceptive,…Continue readingWhy do characters lie?
This little town where I now make my home, tucked away in the beautiful foothills of the Cascades, would not be the first place you would think of if you…Continue readingAn electrifying museum
When I was a young teen living with my family in Swaziland, my parents decided to ship me off to Lowther College, a well-regarded English boarding school, for a year.…Continue readingMy life in a castle
Crowd-funded stories of war and exile to help refugees The time has come for the stories from the ragged edges of silence to be given a voice, stories that will…Continue readingSun of a foreign sky
Telling the stories of war and exile The time has come for the stories from the edge of darkness, from the ragged edges of silence, to be given a voice,…Continue readingChildren of a Different Sky
After the exhilaration brought on by the massive Women’s March, I found it both amusing and infuriating to browse through these Postcards warning men about the dangers of women’s rights…Continue readingDangerous Women
‘There’s a snobbishness in our literary world that equates laughter with shallowness. How untrue that is’ … Deborah Moggach. Illustration: Leon Edler At The Guardian, David Nicholls asked some writers…Continue reading‘I fell out of bed laughing’
I don’t write short novels. As a rule. Most of them are quite long, some behemoths. In fact my epic fantasy novel (with the original title for the whole thing…Continue readingHow long should it be?
The New Jersey bookstore Inkwood has a list of reading resolutions for 2017. Here’s my own handful of resolutions – your mission, should you choose to accept it. 1) If…Continue readingRead it! Now!