Tag: author journey
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I was ten when I discovered that there were two types of books. Some books were classed as “literature” and others were not. Literature seemed to be the books I was expected to read, and the latter, books that would draw a frown from friends and teachers who’d decided the title didn’t qualify for the…
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No Coming Out Story to Tell In some ways, I have no coming out story since it was never really an issue for me. And I think that had a significant influence on what I want to write and how I approach writing gay characters. I always knew I was different, even before I learned…
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Probably the most unexpected influence on the writing of The Medway Wolf is Stephen Tennant — or, more properly, the Honourable Stephen Tennant — a minor and generally useless aristo who died in 1987. I have no love of the British aristocracy, but I developed a fascination for the character after reading the fascinating biography…
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What writer doesn’t like to read as well? As a child I feasted on fairytale stories subconsciously altering the heroines into other boys like me. In my head I was the handsome prince rescuing another prince from the clutches of the evil queen or slaying dragons so that we could be together. As I grew…
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I first began to dabble with writing in my late teens. Mainly because it felt like being an author might be the only thing I could ever be good at. At school, I had no patience to master a musical instrument, and my attempts at portrait drawing were met by my art teacher’s comment, “I’d…