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    GEOFF TURNER

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    • 4 min

    Novel Soundtrack: A Writers' Playlist

    I can't write without music. I know a lot of authors prefer quiet when they're working and, don't get me wrong, when I'm editing I like...

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    geofft45
    • 2 min

    Where The Wild Books Are

    The first book I ever remember reading and finishing on my own as a child is Maurice Sendak’s timeless Where the Wild Things Are. The...

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    geofft45
    • 18 min

    The Talons

    The wind blew ripples across the surface of the Great Lake as the sun rose slowly above the three peaks cutting into the sky; mountains...

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    geofft45
    • 3 min

    Dumbing Down?

    When Carnegie Medal Winner, Geraldine McCaughrean, recently slammed children’s book publishers for moving towards ‘accessible’ prose and...

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    geofft45
    • 3 min

    Perfectly Formed

    I love a good short story – reading them that is, not necessarily writing them. I find I don’t have the discipline to successfully...

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    geofft45
    • 8 min

    The Bottomless Pool. A Fairy Tale (of sorts).

    Following my previous blog about fairy tales, I received a few requests wanting to know more about the tale of the mermaid that appears...

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    geofft45
    • 2 min

    Fairy Tales...not just for kids, right?

    As a writer of stories for children I’m well aware of the irony in that title, however I’m not saying that fairy tales aren’t for...

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    geofft45
    • 5 min

    "I'm not the most disciplined of writers..."

    This interview, conducted by fellow Prospective Press author Shervin Kiani, originally appeared on his tumblr blog here. His great,...

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    geofft45
    • 3 min

    Cracked Ceilings and Peeling Paint

    So, a few days ago I published a blog about the origins of the fantasy world I created for my Land Beyond trilogy (see: Terra-forming a...

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    geofft45
    • 2 min

    Terra-forming a Fantasy World: Creating the Land Beyond

    I was lying next to my son and we were staring up at the ceiling in his bedroom. The cracks, shadows and peeling paint seemed to form...

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