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Gus Silber reviews SPIRE
Acclaimed South African journalist Gus Silber was kind enough to post this review of SPIRE online recently. What I love about it is that he really gets what attracted me to the South Pole setting - the extreme weather, the appalling isolation, and the sheer hostility...
When research becomes an information dump
A hard lesson The first book I did serious research for was Trinity On Air. It was my second published novel. With my first novel, Trinity Rising, I was writing about what I knew, which was being a student at Rhodes University in the Eastern Cape. Trinity On Air was...
The use of cliff-hangers in building suspense in fiction
Serialisation might appear to be no more than a footnote from literary history, but it is not as antiquated as it seems. You probably picture Charles Dickens writing his novels in serialised form for Victorian newspapers, and spinning the plot out so he could earn...
Spire – chapter 3
“Nurse!” Kelebile rushed over just in time to catch the man in his arms as he collapsed. “Where are we going to put him?” he said, staggering a little. “All the beds are full.” There were only three beds in the sick-bay and they were indeed all full. “The room next to...
Spire – chapter 2
The patient was heaving on the bed as the monitors screamed. His details flicked through Caroline’s brain. Forty-two-year-old male. Stocky build. Non-smoker. No history of asthma or bronchial complications. Presented two days ago with a URTI. Became feverish overnight...
Spire – Chapter 1
“We watched all three of The Thing movies in order. It’s a tradition. When the last plane leaves for the winter, everyone gets together in the recreation room and watches them on the big screen. There’s a superstition that if we don’t stick to the tradition it will...
Trivialising the feminine: the genre-fication of women’s fiction in post-apartheid South Africa
Keynote address presented at the seminar “Chick Lit in a time of African Cosmopolitanism” hosted by the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER) on 27 October 2016 by Fiona Snyckers There is a meme doing the rounds on social media. It...
Fiona Snyckers
Fiona Snyckers is a published South African author. Her novels include: Trinity Rising, Trinity On Air, Team Trinity & Now Following You. Purchase your book today.
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