Goodreads asked Nephylim:

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

Nephylim My editors are constantly telling me to 'show not tell' so I wondered what it would be like to not be able to do this. I have written a book (The Face in the Window) about a boy who is blind, so I thought it might be fun to write a book from the perspective of someone who is blind - which is what I'm doing and it is really really hard. You can't say things like 'he smiled at me' or 'he rolled his eyes at me' or 'he shrugged his shoudlers' because the character can't see the other person's face or body, so no body language.

It's one of the biggest challenges I've set myself and I'm really getting drawn into it

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