WRITER
My novels
Novels I have written… many set around the fictional town of Easthope, but others set in the North of England.
Stories I have written for young people, who may be literate and even fluent at reading but are reluctant to do so. it is hoped that this would lead them to be creative with language and maybe write themselves.
Writing guides
Anthologies and collaborations
Telling the tale… then writing it down
Before I could write, I told stories, first to myself then to my sister; when I became a teacher, story telling became an intrinsic and vital part of my way of delivering the goods. Story telling in my teaching wasn’t just going through something in a text book, I would recount tales of my […]
MoreCamel Wood
Camel Wood is an amalgam of many woods and woodlands and forests I’ve walked through. It is a large area of old woodland which exists only in my imagination but is so vivid and believable that it is easy to describe it when I write. Those of you who have read my novel ‘The Stalking of Rosa Czekov’ will know what […]
MoreStep away from your character! Step away!
Busy editing ‘Loving Judah’ which I wrote several years ago and I can now see that when I wrote it I ‘became’ Aislin McManus… whoa! I am not Aislin… she’s a completely different person, married to Peter and living in Yorkshire. This has partly happened because although not in the first person, the whole narrative […]
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Important discovery on Rathlin Island – Local – Ballymoney and Moyle Times
My novel ‘Farholm’ isn’t set of Rathlin Island, a beautiful and fascinating small island off the Antrim coast in Northern Ireland, but Rathlin was an inspiration for me. Important discovery on Rathlin Island – Local – Ballymoney and Moyle Times.
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‘Loving Judah’ – my next novel, preview chapter 1!
This is the opening of my next novel which is set in Yorkshire. ; it is very different from the previous two: They sat at the kitchen table, the flame from the candle flickering slightly in the draught. It was a round, fat creamy coloured candle set in a saucer between them. It was very cold […]
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Lois Elsden 