Author insight into writing realistic flying sequences for a novel with a free extract from ‘The Shape of Rain’. I have always been crazy keen on flying in any form ever since I was a small boy growing up under the flightpath of Heathrow airport in west London. Flying away to foreign climes was not…
Published on Oltobooks.com – 9th February 2022 This is the transcript of an online interview I did for Olto Books. Olto Books: Tell us a little about yourself and your background. Nick Hirst: I’m from England, the suburbs of London, and went to school in Wimbledon. After that, I trained as an actor, subsequently working…
by Nick Hirst Real places have a way of making fiction feel more believable and relatable. For example Seattle (pictured below) plays a very important part of the climax of ‘The Shape of Rain’. You don’t have to have been there to relate, let me take you in words and your imagination. Put a character…