Dance Move
Last night on #SJsTwitterBookClub
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Last night on #SJsTwitterBookClub
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#SJsTwitterBookClub
This week’s #SJsTwitterBookClub featured author Wendy Erskine (@WednesdayErskin), who popped in to talk about her brilliant collection of short stories “Dance Move”.
Usually I’d ask our guest for a spoiler-free introduction to the book, but this time I asked Wendy if she had a favourite story from the collection. “I think my favourite might be Mathematics,” she said. “Golem was a lot of fun to write though.” Which of course made me want to read both these stories again!
We talked about how the book came about. I asked whether Wendy set out to write a series of stories that would hang together as one collection, or if it was more a case of her writing whatever stories came to mind and then choosing the ones that fit. “Well basically after my previous book,’ she said, “I didn't know what to do. And then Declan from Stinging Fly asked me if I wanted to do another book of short stories and I thought, yes, I do. So I just started writing. Because everything was fairly geographically circumscribed, there was a good chance that things would hang together. Also I think that my way of looking at things, the world or whatever, is fairly constant, so possibly if I wrote stories set on Mars, there would still be similar sorts of people.” We implored Wendy to write stories set on Mars, but she made no promises…
We talked about what Wendy likes to read.
(Click on the above tweet to be taken to the discussion on Twitter)
Another fascinating discussion about a fantastic book. If you haven’t read it yet, do so now!
The next #SJsTwitterBookClub will be on Thursday April 7th at 7pm (UK time). We'll be talking about Rowan Coleman’s brilliant “The Summer of Impossible Things”, and Rowan herself will join us! Just follow us both on Twitter to join in, and keep an eye on the hashtag.
Happy reading!
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