I was weaned on poetry. My grandfather was a poet and he was reading me his sonnets before I was fully five years old. On one memorable occasion, I interrupted…Continue readingHow poetry became part of my soul
One of my lush historical fantasies, ‘Empress’, is rooted in Byzantium – which is something tightly woven with the whole vexed “write what you know” question because I grew up as…Continue readingWho is allowed to tell humanity’s stories?
Writing School In the beginning, the author created… When I first began writing historical fantasy, I was inspired by times and places rooted in our own familiar world – but…Continue readingHow to build a world, word by word