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In the Booth with Ruth – Danny Kemp, Author

March 10, 2013 // 2 Comments

I wrote through necessity. To occupy my mind whilst being out of work as a result of a road traffic accident in 2006. I never had a wish to do that before, but during those dark days, almost four years, of anxiety and depression, when the thoughts of taking my life were so prominent, I turned to writing to distract those thoughts. It worked; I’m still here..

In the Booth with Ruth – Josie-Anne Gray, Author, Poet, Singer & Songwriter

March 6, 2013 // 0 Comments

I have been most prolific as a poet I suppose and I still devote a lot of time to poetry and song writing. I co-write songs with my fellow band member Simon Naylor. We have a great understanding of each other's thought processes and motivations. We've been seriously writing together for seven years for our band ‘Merlin's Keep’ and are now working on our fifth album...

In the Booth with Ruth – Alex Hopkins, Author & Journalist

February 27, 2013 // 0 Comments

Getting into journalism is incredibly tough, particularly if you do it later on as I did. It was a slow process and involved a lot of writing for free to begin with. I actually started off writing art reviews. In time, I set up my blog, Dissident Musings, which I used to comment on gay culture.

In the Booth with Ruth – Alice Muir, Founder & Creative Director, TLG Magazine

February 26, 2013 // 1 Comment

My role as Creative Director involves overseeing all of the creative side of TLG Magazine – from photo shoots to editorials and design; it’s a lot of work! I’m actually the publisher as well so I have to do all of the business side on top of that, which I enjoy a lot more. I’m hoping as the business grows and expands, I can delegate a lot of my creative work to...

In the Booth with Ruth – Stephanie Freeman, Author

February 24, 2013 // 1 Comment

I have a degree in professional writing. During my many incarnations as an educator, I’ve gone from writing curriculum for various types of classes including computer applications and adult basic education, to resume/ professional portfolio development, grant writing and standard operating/ implementation procedures for state funded programming such as...

In the Booth with Ruth – Jennifer Domenico, Author

February 21, 2013 // 0 Comments

I’ve written off and on since I was a child. As an adult, I’ve written for blogs and online magazines but never undertook a full-length novel. I always had the dream but never seemed to have the perseverance. Then, in July last year, I had the most spectacular, vivid dream. It played out like a movie and when I woke up, I decided to try writing it down. The idea...

In the Booth with Ruth – George S Geisinger, Author

February 20, 2013 // 0 Comments

I was a young adolescent boy, and started writing, trying to figure out which girl in my school it was that I really liked the most at the inconsequential age of thirteen. It was a toss-up between two different girls, and writing about it did not get either one of them to ever go out with me, but it did help me feel better than the wretched, depressed soul I had...

In the Booth with Ruth – Nic Taylor, Author

February 5, 2013 // 0 Comments

I would hardly say I have a writing background at all; I was rubbish at English at school, despite that my mother was an English teacher (not mine thank God). The first thing I wrote in years that was not an email or a proposal or such was my PhD dissertation. That ran to, I think, about 25,000 words, which I tried to keep ‘un-dry’, the polar opposite to every...

In the Booth with Ruth – Craig Douglas, Author

February 4, 2013 // 2 Comments

A boy of fourteen began to flourish when given English homework. It was the creative kind that made me explode with ideas. My teacher inspired me when she said I had talent. I've got her to thank for that. In my 20s and 30s it has been hit and miss due to a frenetic time in the army, but now I'm out it's even more hectic...

In the Booth with Ruth – Darren Sant, Author

February 4, 2013 // 5 Comments

My writing, generally, is drawn by ideas and scenes that pop into my head. I try not to think in terms of genre if I can help it. An interest in human nature and what makes us tick are perhaps the things that drive me to drift towards crime on occasion...

In the Booth with Ruth – Christine Stark, Author & Visual Artist

January 11, 2013 // 0 Comments

I loved to write at a young age. In elementary school, I wrote pages and pages of stories, such that one of my teachers finally limited me to one sheet per story. When I filled up both sides, I just went on looping the story in the margins. Also, since my parents were not fit to parent, I basically looked to stories to teach me about the world, about how to be in the world, as I did not want to be like my parents...

In the Booth with Ruth – Jill Starling, Author of St. Agnes’ Place – a novel about child sex trafficking

January 9, 2013 // 3 Comments

Many years ago, Rob Morris, co-founder of Love146, a non-profit international organization that fights child sex trafficking, spoke at my church. What he said struck a chord in me; I couldn’t believe how in this day and age, children were put on display to purchase for one’s sick perversion. When I decided to write my novel, I wanted to bring attention...

In the Booth with Ruth – Ed Griffin, Author

January 5, 2013 // 1 Comment

I teach creative writing in the community and in prison and I’ve been doing so for over twenty years. People come to me with all manner of questions. Of course, I can’t review every story or novel that comes my way, but at least I can direct my students to places that will help them.

In the Booth with Ruth – Tom Gillespie, Author

January 5, 2013 // 6 Comments

I’m really not a fan of the word ‘genre’. There’s something rather obscene about compartmentalising creativity into neat and conveniently dull categories. Genres are the evil machinations over ambitious marketing graduates, and are designed to make it easier for publishing houses and film companies to sell their wares and boost flagging profits. I think...