Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
How many books? Lots – lost count ( over 30 anyway)
Ruth Finnegan OBE, FBA, an anthropologist and multi-award writer, is EmerItus Professor of the Open University. With extensive experience of both secondary and tertiary education, currently her prime nterest, besides her continuing single-authored books, is as founder and general editor of the educational series ‘Hearing Others’ Voices’ designed to open young adults beyond exam-oriented curricula to the wider opportunities and knowledge in the world and the possibilities of an imagination, understanding and well-informed life in the future.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
‘The helix pearl, the story of the wine dark garrulous sea’. In psoired in a way by my orzo-winning novel ‘Black inked pearl’ as I wanted a different take in the same story ( this time it’s told from the SEAS)s oersoectvek very different) and above all by Homer.
But in a way by nothing, it just arrived in my sleep.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
For my academic books I sit down at my desk and gather my notes and look things up, and think, and concentrate ( try to) and organise myself. And then revise and rewrite a million times
Fir my novels and screenplays I – DO NOTHING, .pthey just arrive: from my unconscious? from heaven? from another time and place? Don’t know from
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Academic books: just about everything I’ve ever read, nit least Erasmus, Bible, Augustine, Vic Turner, Richard Bauman
Creative writing – Homer, Shakespeare, Rumi, Blake
What are you working on now?
Co-editing a wonderful series for young adults, ‘Hearing Others’ Voices, learning so much from it ( https://www.balestier.com/category/hearing-others-voices/)
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Reviews and/ or book awards with
Literary Titan
Author Marketing Services
Readers Favorite
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Don’t be too perfectionist ( deadlines help)
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
From my mother – keep it simple ( well, I really do try)
What are you reading now?
More ‘listening to’: I think beautiful words are to be heard, not seen. So – listening to Shakespeare sonnets, Rumi lyrics, Biblical,osalma, is an ‘Pride and Prejudice ’ fir the umternth time, always find something new in it ( you too I guess.,, )
What’s next for you as a writer?
I have to wait – the next thing will just ‘arrive’ unplanned.A novel I THINK -but who knows…
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
Homer
Shakespeare
Rumi
and ( you won’t believe) Agatha Christie (any) or Georgette Heyer ( any)
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