Ask the Author: Peter James Russell
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Peter James Russell
I wrote my first book, My Choice Of Words, during our first lockdown in Brussels, and a publisher's suggestion that I should try fiction coincided with the start of the second which gave me the time and the place. The story then seemed to be happening all around me.
Peter James Russell
I often find that ideas, or, more accurately, feelings, are prompted by songs. I listen to a lot of music and it's not a coincidence that Frank, the main character in The Drawing Board often has a jukebox playing in his head.
Peter James Russell
The design and layout of my debut novel, The Drawing Board. I have worked with the designer and the photographer before (on Clearing My Throat. Selected Poems) and they really help me to see things about my work that I don't see myself.
Peter James Russell
Where ever you are and whatever you're doing, listen.
Peter James Russell
The knowledge that someone somewhere who you have never met and never will has taken something away from what you have written.
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