by Helen Brain | Jan 31, 2019
A few months ago US publisher Catalyst Press bought the international rights to all three books in my Elevation trilogy. It’s now renamed the Fiery Spiral trilogy, and we’ve just finished editing and extending book one, The Thousand Steps. The Fiery Spiral...
by Helen Brain | Aug 27, 2016
I found these in a charity shop. I was amused by the way I could create a narrative by putting the scary revolving head dolly in front of the framed postcards of the Dutch children. I ended up buying them of course, to add to the piles of junk -with – potential...
by Helen Brain | Aug 27, 2016
I’m starting Book 3 of Elevation, and for months I’ve been thinking about the Gods that inhabit Celestia and what they look like. I fell in love with Agosia Arts’ folk doll creations – human body, animal head, and I started to make one using her method. I created the...
by Helen Brain | Aug 27, 2016
Harry the puppy has also attacked anything I’ve made. I started making amigurumi animals this year and they’re a pain because they’re small and fiddly and take hours. I’d work away in the evenings while we watched TV and then I’d get tired and go to bed and leave them...