I may be a wuss but I love folk horror
Anyone who knows me would say how much of a wussy wuss pants I am. I hate gore, can’t stand tension, and still have nightmares. Things that have only gotten worse as I’ve aged. (Hands up if you too get stress induced nightmares? Fun, eh?)
Yet, I still love folk horror.
In fact, I only found out my likes - ominous forests, dark fairy tales, ancient rituals, witches and magic - were folk horror a few months ago. I don’t know if its because I’m Scottish and so much of our culture is dark, or if I truly am that delulu.
The best bookshops in Edinburgh (in my opinion)
I may be a writer, but like a lot of people I’m a reader first.
This wasn’t always the case and I used to find non-high street bookshops off-putting, scary even, but this has all changed thanks to my bargain loving husband and gaining more confidence in the books I like. Full disclosure, I’m mainly an ebook/library reader but like to treat myself or the people in my life every now and again.
Here’s a non-exhaustive and very biased list of the best bookshops in Edinburgh, according to me.
Why slow reading has been my goal for the last two years
Since teenhood, I’ve steadily read books. Never so much that it was a personality trait (minus my Lord of the Rings obsession IYKYK) but enough that I swap books with friends and can talk about them. It was in 2021 and the gift of my e-reader - big up Kobo girlies - that my reading went into overdrive (literally too, as Kobo’s have Overdrive built in and I borrowed SO MANY library books it almost makes me feel smug, almost). I went from reading 8 books in 2020 to 48 in 2021, then 80 odd in 2022 and well over 100 in 2023.
Why I’m Publishing Wide
Why I’m Publishing Wide
This is a topic I went back and forth about. It’s a really hard choice to make, and I understand why authors have made a different decision to me.
