Interview with Cadaverine magazine, 2007
Cadaverine: How did you get into writing?
Tracing backwards to my teens, I was always very interested in reading fiction. I didn't feel I could possibly write anything coherent myself until I was thirty or so. In my mid thirties I took almost two years off work to read more and start writing. After writing for about two years a story was taken by The Fiction Magazine, an excellent place to be published at that time. The Fiction Magazine took two further stories and other magazines also became interested.
Interview with Independent Ink magazine
Independent Ink: Did any single event inspire you to begin your writing, or has it been something that you've always known or felt a passion for?
Since I was a teenager I had a great interest in fiction and suspected I would like at some point to try writing it myself. There followed a very gradual process, over a period of years. It began with reading, grew into attempting to write, and then became writing regularly.
Interview in the Short Review, 2009
Short Review: How long did it take you to write all the stories in your collection?
Making time to write can involve huge amounts of time. I might write two stories in eight days but I will have spent six months making the space for those eight days. In that sense this collection probably took me two to three years. My two previous collections each took about five years.
Interview following Bath Flash Fiction commendation, 2016
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