Today’s blog was prompted by a questionnaire I had to do this week. I had to fill in a whole lot of stuff for the publishers re my prospective book. One question asked what books or authors have influenced me-we had tackled this once at Book Club and it was really interesting listening to others on their book choices. I found it really difficult because throughout  your life your perception of books will be different.

However, my choice was influenced by the first Christmas when I arrived home from college I had just got a copy of The Once and Future King by T.H. White on the recommendation of a really good friend. It is of course the Arthurian Legend that runs the whole gamut of emotions.  Memorably I spent all that Christmas with my nose in the book much to the amusement of my sister who had a new cassette (younger readers might not know what that is) who spent all the time recording us and all she got from me were either grunts or monosyllabic answers. That book inspired the first decent length story I ever wrote and subsequent stories I’ve written. I think it also probably fired my Story Telling.

Great win last night for the Mighty Hatters!

Will try and do a quiz tomorrow.