As I wrote recently, I’ve been having a difficult time personally recently. It’s not something I’m able to talk about at the moment but I can only compare it to the nightmare sequence in Hitchcock’s Vertigo where Scottie finds himself in free fall through the air. However, I’m happy to say that my book launch is still proceeding as planned! My publisher has been very supportive and I have a good team helping me getting everything ready. Once The House of Dust and Shadows is out on June 16th, I’m due to disappear on a three week writing residency (more about that soon) so I will be a bit quieter on here but will still post occasionally – probably about the residency itself, which is for artists, writers and musicians and something I am really looking forward to. Three weeks to focus on writing and learn from other creative people – how lucky I am to be able to do this.
We created our first ever video podcast on Story Radio, an interview with me about the book, and you can listen to it here or watch it below. I talk about some of the inspiration behind the book, some of the academic studies I worked on during my Creative Writing MA and how I found my publisher, Rowan Prose Publishing.
