This post first appeared on the Huffington Post and at Delightful Book Reviews. I hate giving tips for writers. I really do. Not because I don’t want to help other people with their writing, but because there really are no rules for writing. But, as a writer, you frequently get asked to compile lists of…
Month: October 2014
The Case of Howard Phillips Lovecraft
This post first appeared on Reading Away The Days Very few writers can truly be called unique; American horror stylist H.P. Lovecraft is surely one who can. Lovecraft, never a success in his own lifetime, and barely more than a cult figure since, is nevertheless one of the most influential writers of the 20th century….
STANLEY KUBRICK: genius on tour
The sign for the Paris leg of the Kubrick exhibition, at Cinémathèque Française, uncannily brought to mind the famous ‘monolith’, the mystery at the heart of his best known and most revered film; 2001: A Space Odyssey. Intentional, no, but it signalled the right note of portent for this extraordinary show which, to date, British…
‘Where’ I write…
This post first appeared in The Guardian As a writer, there’s a process that somewhere occurs in your head; a collision between the fantasy space of your imagination and the outside world, in the form of the things that have directly or indirectly inspired your book. Marcus Sedgwick, author in his shed (but is he?)…
Undiagnosis 