Hello, and welcome to my new blog for Litro.  I’ll be posting here every Friday, so check back weekly for all the latest.

I’ll begin by introducing myself and talking about what sort of things you can expect to find here in the coming weeks. I’m the author of The Girl with Glass Feet, which you can check out on my website. I keep a blog there too, which is proving to be a ramshackle affair covering whatever I’m currently finding interesting, magical or moving. I want to keep the two blogs distinct, so here I’ll mostly stick to what Litro’s all about: writing. I’m going to talk about the world of books and the worlds in books, and the strange goings on therein. 

When it comes to reading, I’m a real magpie. I like short stories, novels, poetry, comic books, dusty old second hand books about weird subjects that I have no knowledge of, children’s books, the lot. I know a little about a lot of things and am left an expert at nothing. I’m bad at keeping just one book on the go at once, and I am prone to the sin, in many people’s eyes, of giving up on books I don’t enjoy. Life’s too unbearably short, and there is a lot out there to read.

At the moment I’m obsessed with fairy stories and folklore. I’m sure I’ll end up talking more about that further down the line. And having said I’m going to keep this about books, I’m really intrigued by the way stories spread across culture, so if it’s relevant I might find ways to shoehorn comments about records, stop-motion films, countryside museums and so on into this blog.

I hope it’ll make for an interesting read…

About Ali Shaw

Ali Shaw is the author of the novels The Man who Rained and The Girl with Glass Feet, which won the Desmond Elliot Prize and was shortlisted for the Costa First Book Award. He is currently at work on his third novel.

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