Tag: behind the scenes

Sorry I’m a little late with this one – things got in the way, as things tend to do… I came up with the title first. I began writing, and came up with the idea of the main character being a fantasist straight away. I remembered “Billy Liar” about halfway through. I actually did do […]

The themes of the story, of loss, and death, and love, are universal ones. The genesis of the story really lies with our own cats and dogs, each one of them unique and special personalities. I still miss dogs I haven’t seen for years. I still miss people I haven’t seen or spoken to for […]

Spoiler Alert: read Florence first, if you haven’t already… This one was quite fun to write, although I suspect it might not be quite as much fun to read as I had writing it. I actually wrote the first draft straight after writing Doctor Fog, knowing that I was going to be away and wanting […]

Spoiler alert: read the story “Elkwood” first, if you haven’t already This one would probably work quite well as a radio play, to be honest. I was aiming for something more Victorian gothic horror, and I think I almost got there in one or two places. Elkwood was the name I originally came up with, […]

This was a hard one to write. It’s actually the third attempt I’ve made to write it over the last twenty years when I first came up with the idea. The idea that appearances can be deceptive is always a fascinating one for me, and the notion that there really is a monster in the […]

For this one, I asked my other half to give me a key word beginning with C, and she chose “crime”. So that was the title of this story up until the very last minute. I basically started writing this one and came up with the idea of them exposing a cheat by using exactly […]

So, although Bernice was a much shorter story, ironically, this one felt a lot harder to write than Another Stack. Spoilers ahead if you haven’t read Bernice yet, so the click-here thing is going here