Lari’s Writing blog

Do I write rather odd books?  I hope so!  I got an email recently from a reader saying she’d really enjoyed Rocking Horse War (she wrote, “I felt like I was actually one of the characters, I was in my bed reading and I imagined that there would be a movie of Rocking Horse War, it was a great feeling,”) but she also said “I found bits of it rather odd.”  And I thought – is that a good thing?  Do I write rather odd books?  Then I thought –  if rather odd means: unpredictable, unusual, surprising, unlikely … then I hope that I do write rather odd books, characters, scenes, stories and endings.  So thanks for the review, and I’ll get back to the keyboard, and find some more rather odd things to write!  Long live odd!