When creating a dynamic character to carry your story, it’s important that they be strongly motivated to drive the plot forward. It makes them more interesting, and the story a lot more fun. When I was writing the first novel in The Witch of Cheyne Heath series, Waking the Witch, I was researching psychological models…
I didn’t realize I was a Goth until I moved to the US to go to NYU. Growing up in the UK in the early 80’s the music of bands like Siouxsie and the Banshees, Bauhaus, and Cocteau Twins was just what was played on the radio. I remember walking into the dining hall freshmen…
I see Gosha’s photography as something between the stylized maximalism of Pierre et Gilles, and the impressionism of Sarah Moon. Both styles would work well to take advantage of the tendency for Gosha’s visions to be captured on emulsion.
Music that made me think of Gosha.
The writing prompt that became the seed of The Witch of Cheyne Heath.
Siouxsie Sioux, the inspiration behind Gosha Armitage.