by AuthorSue | Dec 11, 2015 | Uncategorized
I’m writing this on Tuesday, but you’ll be reading it days from now because I’m going off-line for a bit. I’m taking myself on a much needed short writing retreat. I have half a poetry collection burning a hole in my computer and a notebook...
by AuthorSue | Oct 16, 2015 | Cambodia, history, novels, Uncategorized, Writing
It seems at least once a year somebody is railing about the death of the novel. I’ve thrown my hands up in despair about it so many times that I won’t bother to show you the links. But there’s a somewhat different and interesting take on the question...
by AuthorSue | Jun 9, 2015 | Uncategorized, Writing
Writers are always being asked this question. It kind of drives me crazy, though. My favourite author changes over time, with age, with circumstance. And I know that people are always expecting me to say something especially clever, or name someone surprising. So...
by AuthorSue | Apr 28, 2015 | novels, publishing, Uncategorized, Writing
Back in 2009, after my first novel, Tangled Roots, was published, I had a bit of an awkward time around the London Book Fair. As part of the Fair, the British Council brought over some writers from India in a bid for cultural exchange. They asked for local,...
by AuthorSue | Apr 14, 2015 | novels, Writing
I’m back in writing mode now, which is a lovely, though sometimes aggravating mode to be in. It’s interesting to me how it doesn’t seem to matter how many novels I write — and amazingly, I am now starting on my fourth – the same questions...
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