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Where The Black Book began:

Joy Wright 28 January 2026

Every story begins somewhere and this beginning was in Cornwall in the UK, relaxed, happy and my mind always whirring.No one knew I was away, three of my supervisees contacted…

On friends and wildfires

Joy Wright 26 January 2026

I’ve made a new friend.That sounds small, or even as if it means something else. But it is a rare occurrence I think. What starts as chit chat on common…

On rejection

Joy Wright 21 January 2026

I realised I hadn’t been keeping up with an online presence in anyway over Christmas. It just sort of happened. December tipped into January and in that break rather than…

The Silent Patient – Alex Michaelides

Joy Wright 16 December 2025

I read The Silent Patient as I was near the end of writing The Black Book. I knew where I was going with it and I wanted to start to…

The Waiting Room

Joy Wright 12 December 2025

The interminable wait for an agent to respond.The Black Book is out there, possibly lying dormant in a slush pile instead of in the wilds of my imagination, which feels…

Publication day

Joy Wright 27 November 2025

So something fabulous happened in November. My short story By Proxi And Error came out in an anthology called The Sands of Time from Rushford Editions. It still feels strange…

The Eternal Torment of the Author Bio (and Other Existential Crises)

Joy Wright 11 November 2025

There’s a special kind of torture reserved for writers. Oh we strive for it. We write it and rewrite it in our heads. Editing it with each new burst of…

(Inter)National Novel Writing November

Joy Wright 30 October 2025

From around 2016 ish, for a few Novembers in a row I signed up for the big sprint. No, not running, that hasn’t been a thing since about 1990 for…

A Little Bit Of Good News

Joy Wright 22 October 2025

Every so often, something lands in your inbox that makes you blink at the screen and reread it, just in case it’s the riotous imagination rather than reality on the…