Jessica: I’m not sure I would qualify Awash in Talent as an allegory per se, but I certainly intended the Talents to represent differences in society … that tend to be marginalized Continue reading
This is my niece Jane in 2015. Here she is again, reading. When Jane is reading, she is in her own world. She is nine. She wants to be a writer. So I wrote to her early in 2016. Chelsea, … Continue reading
What does it mean that they “meant it”? I think it’s the idea of perseverance, despite hardships and social ostracism. Continue reading
Many thanks to Anastasia Philopoulos and The Low Down to Hull and Back. http://www.lowdownonline.com
A glimpse into the most populous area of the world at a time when it was largely misunderstood or ignored by Europe and America. Continue reading
The whole thing was strangely reminiscent of scoring a baggie of weed in those high and far off times about which The Hippies Who Meant It was written. Continue reading
My latest book, The Hippies Who Meant It, is now available on Amazon Kindle. It’s about American and Canadian young people in the 60’s who dropped out and went back to the land armed with pluck and naïveté. It’s also a … Continue reading
My first musical experience was undoubtedly my mother singing to me. At the age of 68, on the ferry to the Isle of Skye, I found myself singing words and music I had never consciously learned. I put that down … Continue reading
Most fiction writers are immeasurably chuffed when people write to us indicating that they have entered our imaginative world and been engaged by the characters they met there. This is the writer’s equivalent of applause, and is just as heady. Continue reading
Write On Ottawa: Dragon fables for all ages Written by Janoah Willsie on Saturday August 1st, 2015 An illustration by Shirley MacKenzie from The Laughing Princess. Seymour Hamilton writes the kind of children’s stories that he would have wanted to read as a child. … Continue reading