Of gardens and birthdays and jumping…

Before I head into a post about gardening and birthdays, I want to let you know about a short crash course in creative writing I’m facilitating this coming Saturday at the Norval Foundation. On 4 November I’ll be giving a three-hour crash course in creative writing as part of the Foundation’s two-day Art Book Fair.ContinueContinue reading “Of gardens and birthdays and jumping…”

A talk and two extracts

This month I was delighted to talk at two library events about The Fulcrum – the book club talk at Obs Library and the Author Talk at Tokai Library. I loved putting the talk together and thought I’d load it to the site as part of the book information page and then I thought, well, inContinueContinue reading “A talk and two extracts”

You write what you read

Want to know what kind of writer you are or might be? Look to your bookshelf for a hint. At the start of this year I cleared out my bookshelf. I went full Marie-fucking-Kondo on it. If a book didn’t resonate on the level of love, connection (to the story, the physical copy, or theContinueContinue reading “You write what you read”