FAMILY SAGA ANYBODY? Why Would Anyone Ever Think to Write One?
Family saga anybody? To write one has been my life-long dream: a fictionalized story of my fierce, desperate ancestors and their...
Why really, did I put the New Zealand story on the back burner?
I did begin it, but felt I knew the history too well; felt I didn’t have in interesting voice or enough originality to do justice to...
Saturday Night Editing
Sunday night on a long weekend and I'm in my small, dark little room upstairs writing - well, editing to be precise. Now it is 10 PM. and...
Who are you really?
I started asking, who were the ancient peoples who raced across the Anatolian Plateau over many thousands of years? How did they live?...
Turkish-Greek tragedy and a forced Deportation:
Over a period of months I listened to the tale told to me by this Greek hair dresser about the tragic lives of her forebears who had...
Is the simultaneous pursuit of love and fame mutually exclusive?
And now to Helena, the last in a long line of forebears to carry the ultimate burden of restoring family honour, four generations after...
Once there was a time...
Once there was a time when there was a happy co-mingling of Greeks and Turks. Then there wasn't. I didn’t begin with a plot, but with a...
A Fool's Game
It’s a fool’s game to believe one can simultaneously achieve both love and fame, some say. Helena believes she can achieve just this, but...
The Fate of my Characters
In thrall to the fate of my characters. Sunday night on a long weekend and I'm in my small, dark room upstairs writing - well, editing to...
About accidental characters:
Where did my character Spiros come from? Next to Helena, it is he, her great uncle, who burns many of the pages with his sufferings and...
