Author Archives: Tanya Meeson

Well it’s that time of the year again: almost 16 December, the Day of Reconciliation public holiday, which in South Africa means the country shuts down until about the same time next month. As a bowing out of 2024 (which has been pretty manageable compared to the last four curses years), I’d like to offerContinueContinue reading “A farewell to 2025 and a gift”

Hollywood and the Americanization of my (our?) South African mind The first TV event I remember getting a real kick out of was Knight Rider. I call it an event because it was the digital Dark Ages of 1982. Television broadcasting had been in South Africa for only eight years and people were still throwingContinueContinue reading “America Dreaming”

Samantha Shannon and Big Publishing, an interview about The Fulcrum (with Easter eggs), and a writing course …sitting on tenterhooks for it, clawing at your eyes and clothes for it, literally even maybe dying for it, but my best – and frankly only – excuse for not newslettering is that I’m busy with my next book andContinueContinue reading “Now I know you’ve just been holding your breath for this…”

This past week has been one of events, friends. One of these was an end-of-Fame-Week party hosted by my screen agent* where I got to rub shoulders with people well-versed in the language of success and consider the nature of my name. Once again. You see, the people at the party weren’t only very successful,ContinueContinue reading “A rose by any other name (might vibe differently with test groups)”

If you’re an avid reader, this post is not for you. This is a post for lapsed readers whose brains have been fried by social media and who long to read again but don’t know where to start… Last Saturday I sat in a room with about 117 strangers, all of us hallucinating and timeContinueContinue reading “Into the dreaming”