I love talking about books, writing and the creative process so if you have any questions please feel free to send them my way. However, here are a few I’ve answered recently – you may find your answer is already here.
August 2012: ROOK’s publication month …
What the Dickens? Literary Magazine: p6: route to publication, reasons for writing and research.
My Undercover Soundtrack : music and writing Rook ‘wrestling with ferocity over the music’
Interviews:
Words Unlimited: writing into the dark, Heaney’s Preoccupations and gifts from the unconscious.
Worthing Book Network : family secrets and untold stories; growing up in Bexhill-on-sea; the ‘extraordinary magic that lies in the everyday’
Novel Kicks : planning v. not planning; 5 tips for new writers; do writers have favourite characters?
We Love This Book : interview with Janette Currie: on Simon Schama, landscape and memory, and writing difficult emotional scenes
Autumn 2012
Services to Literature : Rook’s journey; imprinting and my mother-in-law’s pet rook; why colour is important to me as a writer.
Vanessa Gebbie’s blog : on research, finding a uniting thread, and love of landscape
How I Write: for Untitled Books
Interview with Jackie Buxton for Chase Magazine
Winter 2012: some online Q&A
Published on February 18, 2013 20:37