Updating
I’m doing some updating here. Check back in a few days/weeks/however long it takes me to see things a little more clearly.
I’ll be at Blackpool’s Wordpool Festival, July 2nd 2015
I’m really excited to be visiting Blackpool for 2015’s Wordpool Festival. I’ll be talking at the Central Library at 11am on Thursday 2nd July, and there will be elevenses (pastries, coffee, tea). I used to live just up the road in Lancaster, so am really looking forward to being back in that part of the country. …
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The Trees
There will be a lot more to say about my new book in the future, but for now I’m pleased to be able to share the following trade announcement from Bloomsbury. Helen Garnons-Williams at Bloomsbury UK and Rachel Mannheimer at Bloomsbury US have acquired the new novel by award-winning writer Ali Shaw (author of The Girl with …
Scrapbook 2
Over the last few days I’ve been committing to paper a long chain of thought that, I hope, is going to serve as the basis of the biggest writing project I’ve ever undertaken. I’m not plotting yet, just working on a setting that I hope to develop exhaustively before I embark on the actual story. I’ve never done …
Scrapbook 1
With each writing project I embark on, I find it useful to build a kind of digital scrapbook of images, videos and miscellaneous pieces that each reflect some part of the story I’m trying to tell. Most of the images are atmospheric, but some are photos of people who resemble the story’s characters, or of landscapes or places like those …