Hello Dear Reader and welcome to second in my “Why I wrote…” series of blogs. When I started thinking about what I wanted The Ravensmere Trilogy to be about, I was watching, whilst curled up on the sofa with my wife and a bottle of wine, a lot of obscure British films made in the 1970s. We went through Hammer and Amacus horror films, British New Wave, and a number of weird pieces by a director called Pete Walker -- crazily deranged films like House of Whipchord, House of Mor

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When thinking up the initial concepts for Morfudd’s Revenge, I was faced with a very difficult dichotomy. I wanted to write about a young person facing bullying, isolation, and mental health issues, but I also wanted my book to be incredibly funny. A tall order! After much deliberation, I decided that the best way to depict these uncomfortable truths while also keeping things humorous was by turning the normal conventions of fiction on their head. The hero was a desperate, ug

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