Tag: caroline hardaker

JOURNAL #26 – The next thing

Here I am again. At the beginning of a new story. Not just a new book to write, but a new fictional world to inhabit for a year or two. And I can’t decide. I’ve long wanted to do something with the sea. For years, I’ve drifted back to tales of selkies, mermaids, abandoned lighthouses….

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Gods and Monsters

This extraordinary, thrilling, soaring anthology has been gracing bookshop shelves since September now, and I’ve not had nearly enough time to shout about it. Ana Sampson produces exceptional books. I have several! And of course it’s wonderful to be in a poetry collection illustrated by my now long-time-collaborator, Chris Riddell! Gods and Monsters is a…

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Journal #25 – Bumblebee jasper

In my last post, I wrote about how the last couple of months had been a time of transformation. Wrapping up novels, house renovations, body changes, and a new baby.

Even one of those is enough to send your head in a spin. But all of them together? That’s true disorientation.

So what life chapter am I in now?

Stories for Runa

I’ve been quiet, I know. But the last thing I’ve been is still.

Over the last two months…

THE END

So that’s it. It’s done. That time has come.

It’s the end.

How to manage the slow pace of publishing

Having a book published, from writing that first word to seeing it on a bookshelf, takes literally years. Years and years. So what can you do to keep busy during this time?

GRIMDARK: Early Mothtown Review

It’s at this point in the publishing process when I wear an almost permanent grimace. Early review time. It can be shocking. It can be brilliant. It can be brutal.

And we have to eat it all up, word by word.

A pen for each book

Whenever I start writing a new book, it takes a while for the land to settle. For me to really know what it’s about. How it feels in the mouth. How it lingers in the brain. And then when the pieces do fall into place, that’s when I choose a new pen.