Rewriting is like emergency surgery: you lay the mangled body out and prod it, limb by limb, trying to decide what can be salvaged and what needs to be amputated...
Spare parts
Tag: Gifted
My first Frank Sampson story, originally published by Random House and now self-published
Another teenage wizard!
I’m a slow, messy writer. Ideas get jammed into the narrative, then hacked bloodily out. But Mortal does at least deal with the most important question left hanging over by the previous books: how, at the tender age of five, Frank came to kill his father…
The first sentence, part 1: Gifted
I’ve been up all night while the cat’s still fresh...
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 