Happy Book Week NI! Here’s a throwback to my guest appearance on BBC Radio Ulster show, The Ticket, hosted by Kathy Clugston, where I discussed my writing influences. My former career as an archaeologist and previous work teaching English in Japan have been a continuing source of inspiration for my writing. These days my work revolves around all things literary: working in a library, teaching creative writing in a grammar school and providing literacy support to pupils, but I still use elements from my former careers in my writing even today.
Archaeology in particular is an ongoing source of material for my books. I love doing research for my books, which to some extent, keeps my knowledge current.
The town I lived in, Tottori, in Japan inspired my Buddha’s Bone series as it was such a beautiful location, but beyond that I had to do a great amount of research to write my duology of books comprising The Buddha’s Bone and The Wabi-sabi Doll.
Don’t you love how creative writing contributes to lifelong learning for the author? I sure do!
