Ask the Author: Giles Ekins
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Giles Ekins
I like the fictional world inside my head, once there I dream and write and write and dream.
Giles Ekins
Lilith's body shivers, her eyes flare a burning red, the fiery pits of Hell, her scarlet lips draw back revealing slavering venomous fangs and the flickering forked tongue of a snake, her hands mutate into hooked bestial claws, the dress drops away and the skin beneath is reptilian, rippling scales that ooze foul slime, her face a rictus of demoniacal snarls. He screams and tries to run but before he had gone three paces, she was on and bore him to the ground, her fangs sinking into his neck.
Giles Ekins
I'm reading Michael Palins's 'Erebus' about the tragic expedition of Sir John Franklin and his search for the North West Passage. I am related to the Franklin family.
also re-reading Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose' and the Berie Gunther series of books
also re-reading Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose' and the Berie Gunther series of books
Giles Ekins
I always try to write something, even if it only a sentence. I also take a break and work through some scenes in my head. as well as reading through the MS to date, editing and adding, it helps to keep the work fresh to me .
However, I'm sure other writers have different approaches.
Thanks for your question
Giles
However, I'm sure other writers have different approaches.
Thanks for your question
Giles
Giles Ekins
When you first get a book you have slaved over for months into your hands for the first time.
That feeling males it all worth while.
Giles
That feeling males it all worth while.
Giles
Giles Ekins
Believe.
Believe that your writing is important.
Believe that what you have something to say.
Believe that no matter how many times you are knocked back and every writer does get knocked back - just note how many times JK Rowling was rejected- and it will happen.
Keep going.
Giles
Believe that your writing is important.
Believe that what you have something to say.
Believe that no matter how many times you are knocked back and every writer does get knocked back - just note how many times JK Rowling was rejected- and it will happen.
Keep going.
Giles
Giles Ekins
I am currently working on a crime novel set in 1950's ,England an era which seems so much more innocent than today.
The book features DI Yarrow, a former Battle of Britain fighter pilot now police detective investigating a failed bank robbery in which a bank clerk is murdered. and a young girl killed whilst the robbers flee.
I hope to have it completed for publication later this year.
The book features DI Yarrow, a former Battle of Britain fighter pilot now police detective investigating a failed bank robbery in which a bank clerk is murdered. and a young girl killed whilst the robbers flee.
I hope to have it completed for publication later this year.
Giles Ekins
I have written on and off for almost my entire life.
I could not say that it is an obsession to write but I always have ideas swirling about in my head. The trick is to try and put all these random thoughts into a coherent whole.
Obviously, I don't always succeed but when I get a copy of a book I have written in my hands, it is a wonderful feeling.
I could not say that it is an obsession to write but I always have ideas swirling about in my head. The trick is to try and put all these random thoughts into a coherent whole.
Obviously, I don't always succeed but when I get a copy of a book I have written in my hands, it is a wonderful feeling.
Giles Ekins
They evolve. Sometimes just a single idea can develop into a complete book. For my latest published book, 'The Accused' the idea was to investigate what would happen if someone was accused of crime during a spiritualist meeting. Julia Jarrett, dead from a heroin overdose,, accuses her father of abuse.
Is this true From that idea, the story developed into a murder mystery told from separate viewpoints.
Is this true From that idea, the story developed into a murder mystery told from separate viewpoints.
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