E and S in E’s kitchen

Why I wrote The Absolute Book

Useless Grasses: On Imagination

My Prime Minister’s Award Speech

Continuing

Cast Down: My Olympic Essay

Nigel Cox’s Skylark Lounge

My notes for a panel on the topic “Is Romance Dead”

Tata Beach, New Years Eve, 1974.

Thoughts upon watching people shout people down

Don’t say ‘sacrifice’

Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita

Brothers and Sisters: A Grimm tale

Why Horror?

My History with Horror

Where Wake Came From

Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries

My Interview for YALSA

Letting in the Ghosts: Why certain things are in Mortal Fire

My Workspace

Next Big Thing

Margaret Mahy’s The Other Side of Silence

Hermitage

The Invisible Rider by Kirsten McDougall

Margaret Mahy, Hero

My post-Leipzig talk

In purgatory stories are street lamps (1)

True Story 2

Fate, time travel, and truth-telling: The Dreamhunter Duet

Jonathan Dee’s The Privileges, and some thoughts on world view

True Story 1

Why I Write Fantasy (1)

Welcome to my Website

Q & A