Geoff Turner Writer4 minNovel Soundtrack: A Writers' PlaylistI 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 t...
Geoff Turner Writer2 minWhere The Wild Books AreThe 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 dec...
Geoff Turner Writer18 minThe TalonsThe wind blew ripples across the surface of the Great Lake as the sun rose slowly above the three peaks cutting into the sky; mountains k...
Geoff Turner Writer3 minDumbing Down?When Carnegie Medal Winner, Geraldine McCaughrean, recently slammed children’s book publishers for moving towards ‘accessible’ prose and ...
Geoff Turner Writer3 minPerfectly FormedI love a good short story – reading them that is, not necessarily writing them. I find I don’t have the discipline to successfully constr...
Geoff Turner Writer8 minThe 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 i...
Geoff Turner Writer2 minFairy 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 childre...
Geoff Turner Writer5 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, Arabi...
Geoff Turner Writer3 minCracked Ceilings and Peeling PaintSo, 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 F...
Geoff Turner Writer2 minTerra-forming a Fantasy World: Creating the Land BeyondI 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 lan...