Author Archive: Clare Empson

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Afraid of the Light

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 […]

April 28, 2020 | By | Reply More
Second Book Syndrome

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 […]

August 22, 2019 | By | Reply More
Writing HIM

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 […]

September 15, 2018 | By | 2 Replies More