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Kathryn Joyce

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Hull, The United Kingdom

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http://www.kathrynjoyceauthor.co.uk/

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Kathryn(Kathy) Joyce@kathyAnnJoyce

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Fiction, Contemporary, Cookbooks

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October 2012

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Kathryn Joyce, more widely known as Kathy, is a writer, traveller, and enthusiastic cook who found that time spent working in West Africa, Pakistan and Vietnam were great inspirations in her life. The year in Pakistan, she says, "introduced me to a colourful, exciting, diverse community that shattered the stereotypes and prejudices I didn't think I had".
Whilst there she wrote newsletters home, little realising they would later become the source of her debut novel, Thicker Than Soup. ...more

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Where did you get your idea for your latest book?

Kathryn Joyce When Doris Lessing was asked where she found her many ideas her reply was that she didn't have ideas. They were all around.

Here are a few that that l…moreWhen Doris Lessing was asked where she found her many ideas her reply was that she didn't have ideas. They were all around.

Here are a few that that led to my book being written:
1. Whilst working abroad with VSO, I and my husband wrote (pre-blog) newsletters, full of life and work and people and experiences. On returning home, readers suggested writing a book.
2. Living and working in one of the placements - in Pakistan - opened my eyes and mind to an exciting culture that went beyond imagination.
3. Both at home and away, food has always opened doors, warmed hearts, and enthused people. Functional, celebratory, or symbolic, it is so much more than nourishment.

From these 'ideas' emerged Thicker Than Soup.(less)

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How do you deal with writer’s block?

Kathryn Joyce I have a number of ways to try to deal with the dreaded block. One is to go for a walk - sometimes a long one. Another is to sit in a café and write a…moreI have a number of ways to try to deal with the dreaded block. One is to go for a walk - sometimes a long one. Another is to sit in a café and write a character sketch or two - which I sometimes use. Or I take a simple object, possibly something from my desk, and focusing on the five senses, I describe the object. Here's a recent scribble:

It isn’t a ball, not exactly. Being a used squeeze-ball one would expect a bit of leniency. It’s roundish; a tennis ball sized poorly replicated baseball shape and colour – not leather red or tan; I guess you’d call it flame - with black lines marking imaginary baseball seams and not-straight stitching failing to hide the real ones. It contrasts poorly with its paradigm so that one ponders how the design ever came about. I use it to relieve arthritis in my hands, which isn’t very exciting, and if there isn’t any pain I might forget to use it if I didn’t like the smooth, soft, breeze-cooled-skin feel of it. The Chinese designer must have had a bad day – or a brain-storm - when s/he dreamed it up. Factoring in the cost of all the hands that have touched it, from concept to design to materials to manufacture to packaging to distribution to transport to shop to shelf to till to me at only a £1, no-one can have got as much from it as I have..

If that doesn't kick-start the creative juices, I'm really stuck!(less)

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