Posts tagged Joe Abercrombie
Finally getting published, editing your fantasy WIP and doubting your own work

When it comes to fantasy you are never going to reinvent the wheel and if you do it’s going to be a very ugly, rather unappealing wheel. You can only recraft and recreate small sections of that wheel to come out with something appealing, while keeping the doubts at bay.

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Fowl, Ink and Welsh: The books that influenced my writing

The first book I ever read, cover to cover, entirely on my own, was Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox. I was eight or nine, very behind when it came to reading levels at school and worrying my parents to death with my incompetence. I remember, very clearly, being the only one in the class who couldn’t read a single line of The Hungry Caterpillar.

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