Hi Ian,

Thanks for this. And thanks for your interview Simon and thanks Leife for sharing your writing process and insights on The Blue Djinn’s Wish. I like how you used the word Djinn instead of Genie, it adds to the intrigue somehow because it is less familiar, at least that is how it works for me.

I think your sentence ‘It held the faintest echo of summer thunder’ is beautiful, which is why I like your writing because your imagery is so beautiful and evocative and it makes it really easy to immerse myself into the story.

Thanks for persisting with it so that it eventually found its right publishing home, so now we can all read it.

Kind regards,
Joanne