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Author Interview with Beverley Langland

Author Interview with Beverly Langland

What was your childhood ambition?

To become an astronaut. I was at the perfect age for the excitement of the race into space to capture my young imagination. I remember staying up all night to watch the moon landing with my parents and afterwards making plastic models of the Apollo launcher and the Eagle landing craft. It’s a shame that such excitement has gone from the world, with trips into space now reported as an afterthought. Needless to say, the Welsh space program was severely limited, thwarting my ambition. The closest I achieved was to become an aerospace engineer. Still, the excitement fuelled my hunger for SF stories and reading in general. Continue reading “Author Interview with Beverley Langland”

March 27th, 2010 Posted by Sally Jones | Author Interviews | no comments

Author Interview with Elizabeth Coldwell

Interview with Elizabeth Coldwell

What was your childhood ambition?

I wanted to be an archaeologist – until I realised it meant digging up dead bodies.

What ambitions do you still have?

Loads – to work on a couple of novel ideas I currently have on the back burner, to write a story which people will come to consider as a classic of the genre, to branch out into comedy writing by collaborating with a friend on a  project we’ve been talking about for a while. I could go on… Continue reading “Author Interview with Elizabeth Coldwell”

March 25th, 2010 Posted by Sally Jones | Author Interviews | no comments