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I live in London, England with my wife and daughter.
I am currently working on a longer novel set in Seventh-Century England, developing the themes and characters introduced in "The Ruins". ...more

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How do you deal with writer’s block?

Daniel Bristow-Bailey I don't believe that there is such a thing as "writer's block". There are such things as performance anxiety or lack of confidence but we shouldn't ov…moreI don't believe that there is such a thing as "writer's block". There are such things as performance anxiety or lack of confidence but we shouldn't over-dramatise or romanticise these by giving them a special sexy name when applied to writers.
The one thing I find helps is to keep reminding myself that I'm not writing the final draft and no-one but me is going to read it and it therefore doesn't have to be any good. It doesn't even need to be coherent prose. Just keep writing.(less)

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Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Daniel Bristow-Bailey I was first drawn to the Anglo-Saxon period for a couple of reasons.
Firstly as a reaction to the current vogue for various flavours of post-apocalypt…moreI was first drawn to the Anglo-Saxon period for a couple of reasons.
Firstly as a reaction to the current vogue for various flavours of post-apocalyptic literature. Britain after the Romans was a post-apocalyptic landscape. Many writers and readers, in imagining life after the zombies or nuclear armagdeddon or the melting of the icecaps, seem to assume that civilisation has never collapsed before, when in fact it has, several times, perhaps more times than we can ever know. I find the idea that even the apocalypse isn't the end of the world hugely comforting.
Secondly, as someone who had never attempted historical fiction before, it seemed less daunting to pick a period about which relatively little was known. If I had chosen a setting a few hundred years earlier, at the height of Roman Britain, or a few hundred years later, after the Norman conquest, I would have been inundated by source material and couldn't have written a single line without risking it being demonstably wrong. The paucity of evidence about Seventh-Century England, by contrst, gives a huge amount of leeway to the writer of fiction, while providing enough of a framework to spark the imagination.(less)

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	Interzone 254, September-October 2014 (Interzone, #254) by Andy Cox (Editor), Wayne Haag (Illustrator), Nina Allan 3.88 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Interzone 253, July-August 2014 (Interzone, #253) by Andy Cox (Editor), Wayne Haag (Illustrator), James Van Pelt (Goodreads Author) 3.80 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Interzone 247, July-August 2013 (Interzone, #247) by Andy Cox (Editor), L.S. Johnson (Goodreads Author), Wayne Haag (Illustrator) 3.27 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Trial of Socrates (Philosophebooks) by Rob Lawlor, Daniel Bristow-Bailey (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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