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I mainly write fantasy. Everything is fantasy, of course. All fiction, I mean. We tell stories to make sense of our lives, of people, of the world, so we simplify, condense and, perhaps above all we impose a narrative structure and a terminal point. Fiction is to our...

This post is about how moving to Barnard Castle helped me to broaden my fields of  writing. First let me clarify my use of the terms ‘place’ and ‘space’. ‘Place’ is a physical location. ‘Space’ concerns the perceptions and emotions of people who are in that place. A...