Fears and Ideas
Writers may give a small inward groan when people ask, ‘Where do you get your ideas?’ but, the truth is, it’s an eternally fascinating question. My own ideas seldom arrive fully formed, but develop in a tree-like fashion and usually in need of considered pruning. Everyone has ideas, but the real question is, what makes us want to turn them into novels?
I began writing in childhood, always in search of the thrilling ‘otherworld’ feeling I got from my favourite books, and from the landscape of Charnwood (near Leicester, England) where I grew up. Fantasy was the genre that spoke to me. Although often unfairly derided as escapism, fantasy can reach deep into the heart of fundamental ideas; concerns of friendship and passion, bravery, suffering, heroism.











