Ask the Author: Lee Battersby
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Lee Battersby
Right now it's Southern winter, Northern summer, so my Northern Summer reading list stands at:
'The Globe' by Catharine Arnold. I am an unashamed Arnold fanboy. As soon as this arrived in my mailbox, it pushed all other works aside.
'Booklife' by Jeff Vandermeer. It's a bit of a Bible, and I return to it regularly. The best book about being a writer (as opposed to writing) that I've read. Also, Vandermeer's 'Borne' once I get my hands on a copy.
And my wife bought me a collected edition of Edgar Wallace's 'Four Just Men" novels a while back, which I'm in the mood to seriously get into.
'The Globe' by Catharine Arnold. I am an unashamed Arnold fanboy. As soon as this arrived in my mailbox, it pushed all other works aside.
'Booklife' by Jeff Vandermeer. It's a bit of a Bible, and I return to it regularly. The best book about being a writer (as opposed to writing) that I've read. Also, Vandermeer's 'Borne' once I get my hands on a copy.
And my wife bought me a collected edition of Edgar Wallace's 'Four Just Men" novels a while back, which I'm in the mood to seriously get into.
Lee Battersby
It's no mystery, but it could easily be written as one: the birth of my daughter and subsequent death of my wife. In real life, it came about because of medical incompetence. In fiction, it could easily be written as something more.
Lee Battersby
If I had to pick one couple, I'd go with a couple who represent the passion, devotion, and everlasting intertwining of souls that I constantly wish for in my own marriage, and which my wife and I aspire to maintain ever day.
They don't come from a literary text, but rather occupy some of the best work of my favourite cartoonist of all time: the truly unique and wonderful Morticia and Gomez Addams.
They don't come from a literary text, but rather occupy some of the best work of my favourite cartoonist of all time: the truly unique and wonderful Morticia and Gomez Addams.
Lee Battersby
Badly :)
I have a lot of artistic hobbies: I build with Lego, sketch, cartoon, write poetry... anything to create, and keep my juices flowing.
I have a lot of artistic hobbies: I build with Lego, sketch, cartoon, write poetry... anything to create, and keep my juices flowing.
Lee Battersby
That moment, when you're in the white-hot rush of creation, and you throw down a word or phrase or paragraph, and you know, just *know*, that you've created an utterly unique moment-- that nobody has ever exposed that mode of thought to the world before, and that you've birthed something utterly new and unique.
Lee Battersby
A book called "Necropolis: London and its Dead" by Catharine Arnold. She discusses a survey of urban cemeteries in the 18th Century, where it was discovered that many urban cemeteries had been surrounded by tenements and urban sprawl to the point that tunnels had to be dug through the mountains of rubbish and detritus just to gain access. It was such an amazing image that it suck to the inside of my head and wouldn't let go.
Lee Battersby
Say yes to every opportunity that's offered to you in your non-writing life. Do every stupid thing, experience every possible warping of the senses. Anyone can write about the ordinary: fuel your extraordinary.
Lee Battersby
It's a combination of dedicating blocks of time to the act of writing, so that I can turn my mind towards having something to write about a few hours before the start time, and having a good set of writing exercises in my toolkit to use as heart-starters if nothing inspires me. But I'm attracted to the weird and wonderful-- you soon start to build up a wunderkammer of oddness in the back of your mind,
Lee Battersby
I'm currently nutting out a new children's book requested by my publisher, in which a young boy on holiday derails a ghost train.
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