Author Archive: Fanny Blake

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The Stories Behind Objects

The Stories Behind Objects

My mother died recently so my sister and I had the sad task of sorting through her belongings. Neither of us had any idea that she had kept so much of our family’s past. We found diaries and letters, clothes from our childhood and hers. Funny little things that had been saved because they must […]

July 26, 2018 | By | 1 Reply More
From Ghost to Flesh-and-Blood Novelist

From Ghost to Flesh-and-Blood Novelist

My first career was in publishing: acquiring, commissioning and editing fiction and general non-fiction. Writing was what other people did and, as an editor, I tried to help them make what they wrote the best it could be and publish it in the most successful way possible. Even when I embarked on my second career […]

November 5, 2015 | By | 3 Replies More