Looking at my life through the lens of history has made me increasingly grateful to standout women who pushed those boundaries to make the changes from which I have benefited.
Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.
I hope that, whatever happens within the publishing industry, because of the increased control writers have of their own careers, better sales information and the advent of the internet, that ultimate...
For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're famous for travelling in search of adventure.
I'm proud of the culture I come from - we're a small country and a close-knit community.
I'm a library user and I just don't hoard books. To me, they're for sharing.
In the industry, trying out new genres is not always encouraged but what I've discovered is that as a writer, a jaunt outside my comfort zone generally brings new skills to the main body of my work.
There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph, or a painting.
For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending both what's available and who gets to read it.
One of Scotland's most important cultural exports - stories.
An eerie atmosphere leeched from the soot-damaged walls. It was as if the house had died, and yet she felt she belonged here. It was as if the old place wanted to claim her from the grave.
We have more choice than ever before about where and how we buy and read books.
Writers are, as a profession, nothing if not eccentric.
I love writing, and just as much, I love undertaking research.
This is the cusp of an age at least as exciting and as brimful of potential as the early days of the printing press.
You spill a lot of beans in historical fiction. Crime fiction is about spilling no beans at all. You spill the least beans you possibly can. So because I had already written historical fiction before...
The library is a symbol of freedom.
I've always been attracted to stories about rebels - things that are unusual and sometimes dangerous.
Change occurs slowly. Very often a legal change might take place but the cultural shift required to really accept its spirit lingers in the wings for decades.
The telling of any character is what they do in a different situation.
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