Continuing
This essay appears in The Fuse Box: Essays on Writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters At some point in every writer’s life they’ll find themselves facing the question, ‘Why write?’ Because it can be a lonely slog, and you have to like it. Because it’s always been difficult to make any money, […]
My Interview for YALSA
This is an interview I did for The Hub website. Julie Bartel provided the questions. It is mostly about my teenaged self. One Thing Leads to Another: An Interview with Elizabeth Knox
Next Big Thing
Margo Lanagan tagged me for this chain interview—her responses to the questions are here Margo’s Next Big Thing is her magnificent novel, Sea Hearts. I’m tagging Dylan Horrocks. His answers should be up a week after mine. Dylan is in the home straight of his graphic novel Sam Zabel and the Magic Pen. Yay! Here […]
Fate, time travel, and truth-telling: The Dreamhunter Duet
Back in 2009 a fan of The Dreamhunter Duet found me on Facebook and wrote to me with questions. I answered her first few and she came back with more, prompted by a conversation she’d had about the books with some friends of hers. (I didn’t know it then, but this encounter was a little […]
Why I Write Fantasy (1)
I write fantasy and science fiction, realist fiction, and essays. In the essays, you might find yourself reading an account of a time in my life and stuff that happened to me, my family and friends. Or you might get my musings on some subject like what do we mean when we say that something […]