Writer / Woodcarver / Tree-whisperer
I am honoured and delighted that multi award-winning author, Joanne Harris, took time from her busy life and agreed to my request for an interview. Biography Joanne Harris (OBE, FRSL) was born of a French mother and an English father. She studied Modern and Mediaeval Languages at Cambridge and was a teacher for fifteen years,… Continue reading Interview With Joanne Harris
Mind Your L#ngu@ge. I find it interesting that some people consider certain words in the English language to be offensive. If I want to cause offence deliberately (which I generally don’t), I could do so quite easily without using any of these so-called expletives. I say ‘so-called’ because the Oxford English Dictionary defines expletive as:… Continue reading Mind Your L#ngu@ge.
UPDATE: Sadly, Scififantasynetwork.com has been discontinued, so those links will not work. The reason there has been no post for a while is because I have been doing work experience with the marvellous Luna Press Publishing print science fiction, fantasy and speculative fiction and non-fiction, and who manage http://www.scififantasynetwork.com/ This included: An interview with author… Continue reading The Blog of Blogs
If I say that writing a novel takes a long time, I doubt any of you would be surprised. Some however, if they did the maths, might question just how long the process takes. Of course, the amount of time available in life should be taken into consideration, but it would not be unreasonable to… Continue reading In For the Long Haul
Above my laptop, I can peer through the grime of the tiny four-paned window in the gable end of the house and glimpse passing sheep or maybe one of our three cats. The tortoise-like shell of a collapsed shed contains the abandoned gleanings of a hoarder to whom we once granted temporary storage space. Last… Continue reading Life as a Mature Student – Part 1
Geoff King 