Industry	Arts
Occupation	Writer, writing development, p/t Librarian, beekeeper.
Location	Penwortham, Preston, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Introduction	Born liar following a life of fiction. Grew up in Leicestershire, lived in Norwich for several years, and now based in the North West. Author of the Witherstone trilogy. For more info see www.witherstone.com. For my day job, I'm a p/t Librarian, and deliver writing workshops and other writing and reader development projects in the North West. In former incarnations I co-ordinated the Lancashire Writing Hub, and was a University lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing. My environmental persona Reigh Belisama blogs at Save the Ribble and The Ribble Cycle Diaries occasionally. I have trouble taking myself seriously. I also keep bees, but have no plans to give away any of their secrets.
Interests	Writing, reading, music, environment, walking, cycling, bees
Favorite movies	Magnolia, Paranoid Park, Wings of Desire, A Room With A View, The English Patient, Gosford Park, 21 Grams, Crash, (Paul Haggis), The Piano, Bladerunner, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Mud, This Waking Life,
Favorite music	Max Richter, Sigur Ros, Eluvium, Helios, Slint, The For Carnation, Arvo Part, Muse, To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Svarte Greiner, Mogwai, Johann Johannson, Polmo Polpo, Emery Reel, Ludovico Einaudi,
Favorite books	The Outcast, The Book Thief, Northern Lights, The English Patient, The Graveyard Book, Fugitive Pieces, A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Road, Shipwrecks, A Spot of Bother, Orlando, The Visitor, A Kind of Intimacy, A Question of Power, Tom's Midnight Garden, Coraline, The Wind in the Willows, Gormenghast, Jude the Obscure, The Mill on the Floss, Lolly Willowes, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Twilight, (yes, really...), A Series of Unfortunate Events, Sexing The Cherry, The Visitor, 1984, even the dogs, if nobody speaks of remarkable things, In The Wake, Beloved, Winter's Bone,

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