In the Booth with Ruth – Victoria Watson, Author
Creatives Interviews
In the Booth with Ruth – Martin Crosbie, Author
I like the grand, sweeping stories of a person’s life, or at least a significant period of the person’s life. I want to read The World According to Garp, or Life of Pi, or David Copperfield. And when you read those types of books, sometimes there’s a little bit of everything in them. That’s what I like to read so I guess that’s why my writing ends up there too...
In the Booth with Ruth – Andrew Scorah, Author
Ever since I can remember, I have read books. A comment from one of my early school reports stated I was quite happy to sit in the little class library reading. The first story I ever wrote, I must have been about twelve I think, it was for a school writing competition. The winner got his story in the school magazine - my story won. I used to write a lot of stuff..
In the Booth with Ruth – Sharon McGovern, Author, Broadcaster & Anti-Abuse Campaigner
I have no formal background in writing at all. I first began writing poetry and words as a child - it helped me cope with the abuse. My first poem was written at seven years old, a very morose and depressed poem of a soul destroyed. I remember mum reading it and telling a neighbour that she was worried I always seemed to look at the negative side of life...
In the Booth with Ruth – Steve Christie, Author
I’ve never really been one for setting a particular time of day aside for writing. It doesn’t work for me. You can’t just expect inspiration to hit you when you want it to. So, I prefer to write on the go so to speak. I use my iPod to jot down pieces of my story throughout the day then I spend the evening expanding on it...
In the Booth with Ruth – Tom Evans, Author
I met a chap who gave me four DVD's of esoteric information a few years ago. He said, "You'll know what to do with this" - and then kind of disappeared. I am driven at reverse engineering how we got here and came to ask the question, "Why are we here?". I am getting close to some answers and am finding the truth is stranger than we think...
In the Booth with Ruth – Andrew Peters, Author
I got a Kindle in May and downloaded some stuff, including some VERY highly rated “laugh out loud” stuff, which I though was about as funny as piles. I discovered later that the “laugh out loud” thing is a guarantee of humourlessness. Being an arrogant swine, I decided to write my own comedy book and make millions, since it seemed so easy...
In the Booth with Ruth – Graham Smith, Author
I just love the diversity of crime fiction. It encompasses such a wide range of styles from the likes of Silence of the Lambs to Miss Marple style cosy crimes to action led novels like Lee Child’s Reacher series to the historical artefacts range of novels such as The Da Vinci Code. I love the idea of setting a...
In the Booth with Ruth – Gerry McCullough, Author
I like writing about people. The whole idea of genres is a pain, to me. Dickens wasn’t restricted to one genre, for instance. But if I had to pick one type of book, I suppose it would be romantic thrillers. My first book, Belfast Girls, was cross genre. However, the next one, Danger Danger, and then the Angel series – Angel in Flight: An Angel Murphy Thriller, and...
In the Booth with Ruth – Beverly Preston, Author
My journey as a writer began three years ago after waking up from a nightmare that my husband had died and I was on a boat in Bora Bora scattering his ashes on the lagoon. After weeks of worrying my husband was going to fall off the roof he’d been working on, I realized it was simply a horrible nightmare and he wasn’t going anywhere. However, that tiny fragment of a dream haunted me...
In the Booth with Ruth – Hunter S. Jones, Author
In the Booth with Ruth – Paul Burston, Author & Journalist
In the Booth with Ruth – DeEtte Beckstead, Author
I have loved writing since I was a child. My parents and my siblings, all of whom are older than I, read to me every day. I loved books from the time I was little. My mother was a writer, although nothing was ever published in more that her work newsletter. I started writing during NaNoWriMo 2007 after both my sons told me I should try it...
In the Booth with Ruth – Nigel Bird, Author
Inspiration came from my friends who loved to read and write. The way they talked about books and put songs, poems and stories together seemed wonderfully cool. They led me to imagine worlds I’d never seen, worlds populated by romance, imagination and interesting people pushing at barriers, all the kinds of things I wanted in my life...
Ruth Jacobs 