And then the perfume rose from my neck and scarf, and wound itself around me. Beautiful and seductive. Comforting and reassuring. Bewitching. Utterly transfiguring.
Author: dhounam
Former medieval historian, painter, translator and Javascript developer. More recently, author of Gifted (2015), Pariah (2016), Mortal (2023), and Those Who Wait (2024)
Lost in music
Our relationship to the music we love is complex and, most of the time, has little to do with sound quality.
Fuckin’ up
The process of writing — at least as I practise it — is one of continual failure, and of the subsequent failure of all attempts to remedy that initial failure.
A monster rewrite
Like Frankenstein’s monster, it will shamble to its feet and start to move in a sinister fashion… until it falls over a chair
Gifted
The novel was originally called Spellbinder. Actually, since it was about a teenage forensic sorcerer, my first idea had been Spellbound; but Alfred Hitchcock had kind of got there first…
Donald Hounam 