![]() That took me a couple of years, and just about as I finished it, I changed jobs and got something closer to home. Specifically, I wrote a novel that, although not actually very good in some ways, helped set me going. Initially, because I didn’t know that small presses existed, I wrote what I thought nobody was writing because I couldn’t see them when I went into bookshops: ghost stories. Very practically, in the early noughties (and yes, I do know that ‘noughties’ is a fucking horrible word and anyone who uses it should have their bellies poked with a sharpened stick) I found myself with lots of dead time on trains to fill, commuting to and from Liverpool for work, and decided that I’d use the time to finally commit to writing properly. ![]() Sadly, it’s a terribly boring answer, but it’s also a truthful one. As long as I can remember, I’ve enjoyed reading, watching and listening to horror stories, so it seemed a natural thing to then write them when I came to actually start writing. ![]() It was a mix of things, really: I’ve always wanted to write (I wrote ‘get something published’ on an undecorated wall in my house at the end of 1999 as a way of making a new millennium’s resolution – I figured giving myself 1000 years was a good timeframe), and I wanted to write horror because it was what I like to read. What first attracted you to horror writing? ![]()
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