by Rhiannon | May 23, 2010 | Artists & the Arts, General, It's a Mystery, Just for Fun
Let’s find out if you qualify. Imagine you’re walking by a lake on a gorgeous summer morning, breathing in the mingled scents of lake water and fragrant fir trees, and then you come upon a canoe pulled up at a dock, and you think, “That canoe could have a body...
by Rhiannon | May 18, 2010 | Going Places, Once Upon a Time
Once upon a time (1973), in a galaxy far far away (Liverpool), I was invited to the Liverpool School of Language, Music, Dream and Pun by Allan Williams, “the man who gave away the Beatles.” “You must come,” he said, pressing a badge into my hand....
by Rhiannon | May 9, 2010 | General, It's a Mystery
“Wanted: Assistant Editor for two retail magazines,” read the ad in the San Francisco Chronicle. It was the mid-1970s, I was in my mid-twenties, and I figured that if a job involved putting words on paper, I could do it. But would the editor agree? It didn’t...
by Rhiannon Paine | May 8, 2010 | Artists & the Arts, General, Home Sweet Home
It’s the autumn of 1978 and I’ve just moved into a flat in Liverpool. A new friend is watching while I unpack my books. After sorting them by genre (novels, poetry, plays, biography, criticism, history), I start to alphabetize the fiction by the...