John Baker’s Blog

1. Why do you blog?
I need a readily available outlet to express/expose my writing. Like my previous and current obsessions/passions (art/music) I have to write, I am driven to write – If I don’t then I am stifled, a depressed malcontent, well, more than I usually am anyway, and like music this is not something [...]

1. Why do you blog?
I’ve never kept a diary or journal and this seemed so easy. However, I only write about my writing life and sometimes the vicissitudes of the publishing world.
2. Which author and/or book has most influenced you?
Elmore Leonard.
3. Which three blogs do you most visit?
Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind
A Writer’s Life [...]

1. Why do you blog?
My main blog is Never Neutral but I have several others. It’s a commonplace, but I blog because I have a need to communicate. I have always connected writing and publishing. As a teenager I edited a couple of fanzines, which I sold/swapped mainly by (snail) mail. Me and my brother [...]

Kitty Wellington, the depressed and unhinged narrator of Clare Morrall’s novel, has a strong and compelling voice. She is a woman pursued by demons, fuelled by the loss of her mother and her own baby. She inhabits a reality which most of us are spared but which, nevertheless, is instantly and unmistakably, recognisable.
As she [...]