Authors Electric

For this month’s blog I had thought of conveying my despair, anger and profound sadness at the appalling inhumanity, cynicism, failures, and uncaring responses of those in power to such devastating news on all fronts. As part of my solution to many of the problems, I also thought of proposing an amendment to whatever laws govern elections that, as well as allowing us to elect candidates, would give us the option of comprehensibly preventing them altogether. But rather than compound the prevailing misery, I eventually reasoned that I ought to try to counteract it with some light relief. I hope this may provide a little. Regular visitors to Authors Electric  clearly have an interest in writing of all sorts. If they also happen (or want)  to be writers themselves, they may be looking for hints, inspirations, encouragements. If that's the case for you, you’ve come to the right place. To begin with, consider this: It is, of course, the signature of our greatest writer. But look at ...

We live in grim times. Those of us in the UK are faced with a government busy eating itself, unable to manage the competing demands of the negotiations that will sever us from Europe, the consequences of austerity that sees the NHS at breaking point and poverty spiralling out of control, and a blatantly racist discussion about who belongs here and who doesn’t. Our environment is drowning in plastic. Even our weather is non-compliant. (It’s not for me to comment on presidential difficulties in America).  One solution to this madness - distracting the electorate from things that really matter by bombing a country thousands of miles away.  People (by people I mean readers) need fiction more than ever. Fiction that not only addresses the deal and meaningful, but also provides some light relief, entertainment, brain-space away from all the guff that fills the newspapers and leaps at us from the internet. What a responsibility for us writers! How wonderful it is to be ...