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Connectivity
Originally published at Mary Victoria. Please leave any comments there.
I think it was Kafka who said a writer without a novel is a monstrous thing. I am, therefore, indisputably monstrous. Novels - both the writing and the reading of them - require giving one’s undivided attention to the written word for a brief span of time, and undivided ( Read more... ) -
Writing process
Originally published at Mary Victoria. Please leave any comments there.
I’ve been lucky enough to be interviewed twice by fellow authors in recent days. This time, Sue Bursztynski, author of ‘Wolfborn’, has kindly asked me to stop by her blog ‘The Great Raven’ to answer a few questions about my writing process. There are some other very interesting ( Read more... ) -
The City of Masks
Originally published at Mary Victoria. Please leave any comments there.
Ashley Capes is a poet and author of fantasy novels who very kindly interviewed me over on his blog the other day. I’d like to return the favour by asking him to post about his new book, ‘The City of Masks.’ You can check it out in electronic format now, or in a short while in ( Read more... ) -
Interview
Originally published at Mary Victoria. Please leave any comments there.
The very kind Ashley Capes of ‘City of Masks’ fame has interviewed me for his site. News about past and present books. Check it out.
Thanks for the chance to chat, Ashley!
http://www.cityofmasks.com/blog/mary-victoria-interview
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Excuses, excuses
Originally published at Mary Victoria. Please leave any comments there.
It has been a long while since I slunk by here, tail between my legs. My excuse, as always, is that I have been swamped “in real life” by doing, doing, doing. Indeed, like Ged at the end of ‘the Farthest Shore’, I would love to be done with doing. But I don’t get to say that - ( Read more... ) -
In the beauty
Originally published at Mary Victoria. Please leave any comments there.
I don’t know if other authors feel as I do, but one of the most marvellous things that have happened to me as a writer is to be privileged to witness artists creating images inspired by my stories. These glimpses of a world that previously only existed in imagination make my ( Read more... ) -
Best wishes for 2014!
Originally published at Mary Victoria. Please leave any comments there.
I think space-time slopes downwards - time is certainly running away from me. How did the new year arrive so quickly? Anyway, I want to wish a most wonderful and fulfilling 2014 to all my friends out there in the blogosphere. I may not comment on your entries often, but your ( Read more... ) -
Mandela
Originally published at Mary Victoria. Please leave any comments there.
And now Nelson Mandela is gone, too.
I don’t mean to use this blog to catalogue the deaths of deeply loved and admired people, though this does seem to be a year for it. It’s just that a sense of time lies heavy on me at the moment. I feel poised on the edge of something, ( Read more... ) -
Fantasy legacy - CS Lewis
Originally published at Mary Victoria. Please leave any comments there.
In the wake of the anniversary of three famous deaths - President Kennedy’s, C.S. Lewis’ and Aldous Huxley’s - there have been a slew of articles in mainstream press about the three men. I find it amusing (and edifying) that all three are united not only in death, but in the ( Read more... ) -
Vale Doris
Originally published at Mary Victoria. Please leave any comments there.
Goodbye, Doris Lessing. Thank you for your worlds, both strange and familiar. You were sometimes cruel, controversial. Maybe you needed to be. I will miss your voice, your curiosity, your feistiness. It wasn’t perfect: it didn’t have to be. You came, you wrote. I am deeply ( Read more... )