Author Archive: Clare Empson
Afraid of the Light
At the start of lockdown it was often said the people least affected, jobs wise, would be the writers. And in some ways that’s true. Every day there’s still a bank of time when I’m glaring at my computer screen (or staring out of the window) hoping for inspiration. But for the first couple of […]
Second Book Syndrome
I feel as if I’ve always known the phrase ‘that difficult second album’ forever: it lives in my vernacular. Mostly due to the fact that I’m married to a man who has spent his career in the music industry and knows all about troubled artists trying to create a second body of work. Not sure […]
Writing HIM
HIM, my debut novel which published at the end of August took almost a decade to write. When I used to tell friends I was still writing the same book 5,6, 7 years later they’d look at me perplexed. ‘What on earth is it? The bible?’ In the end it seemed easier to keep my […]
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