M: We’re having Christmas this year on the Spotted Satellite. Since you’ve never had a proper Christmas here, it’s going to be a long one. The decorations are up until December and on the 25th of December we’re going to open presents and watch Christmas movies and hope no one gifts Melanie that desert eagle she’s had at the top of her list all these years.
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Do you hide any secrets in your books that only a few people will find? Anyone familiar with British girl pop of the last three decades would have a field day with my work. If you think it’s a reference to the Spice Girls, you’re probably right. What was your hardest scene to write? If… Continue reading
I have written about real figures in my life without the pretense of fiction. I tried my best to represent them fairly. However, in my writing, I also subscribe to the quote that if they wanted better treatment in fiction, they should have acted better in the real world.
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Character 1: I’m so afraid of love. I push everyone away despite my great desire to be in a relationship.Character 2: I work too much. Romance just doesn’t fit into my lifestyle. You could say I’m in love with my career, which I never really talk about except in terms so vague I could be… Continue reading
Do you think someone could be a writer if they don’t feel emotions strongly? Yes, they could be a technical writer. Hahaha, I kid. I kid. I don’t think it’s helpful to say that to be a writer you have to have this list of qualities. Writing is art. It can be anything. As soon… Continue reading
The world can be an awful place. Surviving and protecting yourself are sometimes so key to our shared existence there’s no time for literally anything else. The ability to be vulnerable, soft, open with yourself and other people, is a privilege not everyone is afforded. Everyone has had an experience where they opened up to… Continue reading
What literary pilgrimages have you gone on? I once suggested we all go to Tintern Abbey on a school trip in college. By the time we got there, I was so deep in an episode of depression I didn’t even get off the bus. I just put my head against the window and cried the… Continue reading