Author Interview – Neal Moss – Letters To Penweth

On The Table Read Magazine, “the best book magazine in the UK“, author Neal Moss talks about the inspiration behind his new book, Letters To Penweth.

Tell me a bit about who you are.

I was born in the 1950’s into the heartlands of the Yorkshire mining industry, my younger sister and I were raised by our mother alone. Our childhood, like many others, had difficult times but we were also fortunate that our mother had a huge imagination.

I fondly recall many a morning with the three of us being entertained, enthralled and excited by tales from her stories and the ‘magic carpet’ which took us anywhere and everywhere.

I left home at the age of seventeen to work, which allowed me to live in many locations across the world, and never actually returned home as I married and finally settled in Devon over thirty years ago.

When did you first WANT to write a book?

I think it has been ingrained in me forever, there has always been an idea looming in my mind and I believe I knew that at some point I would really focus on writing a book.

When did you take a step to start writing?

I have always written, though in the main, it had always been centred upon poetry or short stories, the latter of which were mostly aimed at children. I am sure that this stems from those childhood memories that I have with my mothers tales. Some of the poetry has been published over the years in magazines and I have a collection, which I self -published, “ Inside Shadows Out”.

How long did it take you to complete your first book from the first idea to release?

Though the idea came to me over twenty years ago and has stayed with me ever since. Whilst I continued to write poetry, there was a constant niggle which never went away. It finally, began to come into fruition around three years ago and words were actually begun to be written.

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