interview
My next guest author to share her experiences of writing outside the Amazon norms is Nikki McDonagh. In Nikki’s case it isn’t so much the genre, which is broadly dystopian speculative, but her style of writing that knocks the reader sideways.
I was attracted to her first book by the beautiful cover and was immediately drawn in by the narrative. There is something Dickensian in the speech of her characters, a quirky style that bears no resemblance to modern tv soap dialogue, but makes me at any rate think of nineteenth century boatmen and other London low life. There’s something sad and out of time in the words that sits very well with the underlying story of loss.
J: Tell us what the story/your work is about, the setting, the background, and where it takes the reader.
N: The Song of Forgetfulness is an unsettling and mysterious vision of the…
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