Mar 1, 2016 | Blogroll, Writing
An author with inside parlour wisdom puts her expertise to fictional fabulousness. We start with my interview questions and ABF’s responses: Q1 What is your writer’s name? I’m A.B. Funkhauser: mother, mortician, monkey; purveyor of adult, contemporary, gonzo...
Jan 23, 2015 | Blogroll, Genre: Science Fiction, Writing
The Idea Dawns As I puffed, riding my bicycle up a steep Welsh hill 5 years ago, an original idea inveigled itself into my head. The trigger as I started up Horseshoe Pass, was remembering my mum’s lack of short term memory after she suffered a stroke back in...
Jan 29, 2014 | Blogroll, Genre: Science Fiction, Writing
Just as the Wikipedia mandarins delete the page about ARIA Trilogy, two other encyclopaedias include it in! As far as Wikipedia was concerned the concept of infectious amnesia, even if original in fiction, hadn’t attracted sufficiently ‘notable’ references and reviews...
