Guest author - Jay Lewis Taylor

Such a treat to have Jay here today, answering my daft questions.

What inspired you to start writing?

I've been doing it so long I can't remember; except that I've always had a very vivid imagination and, when I was young, read so much that I would occasionally run out of books. Eventually I wrote my own stories so as to have something to read. In the early days, these were never finished. Perhaps my true beginning story was the first I completed, when I was at university. It began with a picture in my mind of ski tracks off the edge of a cliff (it was a very bad story and full of angst). My first novel, unfinished and unpublished, was set in the imaginary world where I set the ski tracks. It has a complete as well as an incomplete novel set there, but I doubt that either is publishable. ( Read more... )

The Peacock's Eye.