Who is Felicity Pulman?
I’m the award-winning author of numerous cross-genre short stories and novels for children and adults, including Ghost Boy (which is in development stage for a movie); the Shalott trilogy and A Ring Through Time. My medieval crime series, The Janna Mysteries has been rewritten and repackaged for an adult fiction market, and the first book in The Janna Chronicles, now titled Blood Oath, will be published mid-January by Momentum (Pan Macmillan, Australia) with the next five books published consecutively every month. In addition Momentum published my first novel for adults in 2014. Titled I, Morgana, this is a re-telling of one of the most reviled and enigmatic characters in Arthurian legend – and one of the most fascinating! To my great delight, I was recently awarded the inaugural Di Yerbury writer’s residence in the UK, and will spend three months in Devon in 2015 researching and writing the sequel to I, Morgana with the working title Return to Camelot. I also enjoy talking about researching and writing my novels and conducting writing workshops in various genres for both children and adults.
Where can I read more about this fabulous author?
http://www.felicitypulman.com.au/
What music do they like?
I’m fascinated by the music of Lisa Gerrard from Dead Can Dance; she writes and records her own songs as well as writing scores for movies including Gladiator and Whale Rider. My current favourite is the haunting (and terrifying) clip from Black Hawk Down, titled Gortoz A Ran – J’attends, recorded with Denez Prigent.
There are several different versions of this around. I should say that I cannot write and listen to music at the same time, but music has inspired many of my novels – eg the recorded version of The Lady of Shalott by Loreena McKennit plus an eclectic selection including Allegri’s Miserere to a revivalist hymn while I was writing the Shalott trilogy; and Maddie Prior’s King Arthur while writing I, Morgana.
